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#1

“A long walk. A very long walk. Sand between my toes. The rough surf at times reaching and washing away my footprints. About a mile down the beach, I sat down and started thinking back through everything Vance had told me so far. Thought about what my next moves would be. Seeing the Asian guy tomorrow and having him snoop would settle one thing in my mind. Did Vance do it or not? Crucial. Until I knew that, I didn’t want to go any further.”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

tags: fiction-writing, murder-mystery, noir-fiction, noir-mystery

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#2

“they’re teaching us that the real Catholic belief about Mary is that she got pregnant through her ear—that “Just as Eve listened to Satan and gave birth to sin, so Mary listened to Gabriel and became pregnant with the Son of God.”
― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood

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#3

“Jeff’s office looks like a cross between the overnight camping trip of a preternaturally rambunctious Boy Scout troop and an X-rated pajama party for a sect of animals for which there is no genus. What it smells like is more easily recognizable – dried-out pizza, stale beer and sweat.”
― Joan Gelfand, Extreme

tags: behind-the-scenes, drama, fiction-novel, insight

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#4

“Seconds are slowly, slowly passing by; like a lazy herd of elephants, heavy and laborious.”
― Gary Edward Gedall

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#5

“Everyone is so enamored with the puppet; they never notice the man pulling the strings.”
― J.B. Lion, The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity

tags: action, fantasy, graphic-novel, illustrated-books, inequality, lifting-the-veil, mental-construct, sci-fi, social-structures, socioeconomics

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#6

“But, if we consider, as physicists now claim, that everything is energy—everything we see, everything we think, everything we do—then it is just possible that this same law of conservation of energy applies to questions of morality. A conservation of moral energy, a maintenance of equilibrium… a balance exists and must be preserved. If an action is taken that disrupts that balance, then an action similar in kind and degree is required to restore equilibrium.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

tags: balance, equilibrium, fate, karma, morality, newton, physics

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#7

“If you are offended by a belief that says you can’t have your own definition of God, be alarmed at yourself! The implications are humbling, if not embarrassing.”
― Randy Loubier

tags: christianity, gods-power, guidance, healing, love, reflection, religion-and-philoshophy, spirtitual-growth

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#8

“I felt hot under my Mutton sleeves. "I just wish he'd have the decency to say whatever he came to say in front of his wife."
"Perhaps his wife is busy today."
"She shouldn't be." His wife should track him like a bloodhound.”
― Diana Forbes, Mistress Suffragette

tags: historical-fiction, historical-novel, women-s-rights

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#9

“A star becomes a sun, under the pressure of darkness.”
― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

tags: avenger, dark-magic, falsely-accused, fantasy, magical-world, mythical-creatures, on-the-run, romance, underworld, vampires

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#10

“Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

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#11

“إن المرأة الحقيقية ... ، تتمتع باللذة التي تمنحها أكثر من تمتعها باللذة التي تأخذها من الرجل”
― نيكوس كازانتزاكي, Zorba the Greek

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#12

“In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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#13

“Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity. It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain... remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that this may be good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#14

“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

tags: inspirational, power-of-words, writing

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#15

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

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