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    Kathleen Zamboni McCormick
    “Mary’s supposed to be the opposite of Eve, but I bet she had childbirth pain just like everyone else.”
    ― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood
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    Kiersten White
    “Some things, the best things, do last forever”
    ― Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars
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    Joe Hill
    “I am always with you. Love never burns away. It just keeps on and on.”
    ― Joe Hill, The Fireman
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    Mohamad Farahat
    “ثبت اهتزاز الوتر
    سكت الوتر
    هذا الفتى يأكل من كتابتِه السَّهر
    هذا الفتى يرعى
    من مواسمه المطر
    ***

    قبرٌ يضمك بعد أن
    ضمتك كل قلوبنا زمنًا
    وما زلنا بشعرك نأتزر
    (لا تعتذر عما فعلت)
    صنعتَ تاريخًا نحبكَ باسمه
    والعابرون سيفرحون سيجلسون القرفصاء
    يقول آخرهم من القوقاز شاعرهم مضى
    لن يدركوا الكلمات باقيةً
    ويمضي العابرون مع الكلام بلا أثر”
    ― محمد فرحات
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “I’m fairly certain, Captain, that the more you discover about me, the more you will dislike me. Therefore, let’s cut to the chase and acknowledge that we don’t like each other. Then we won’t have to bother with the in-between part.”

    She was so bloody frank and practical about the whole thing that Christopher couldn’t help but be amused. “I’m afraid I can’t oblige you.”

    “Why not?”

    “Because when you said that just now, I found myself starting to like you.”

    “You’ll recover,” she said.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon
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    Graeme Simsion
    “I watched as she took a second sip, imagining alcohol crossing the placental wall, damaging brain cells, reducing our unborn child from a future Einstein to a physicist who would fall just short of taking science to a new level. A child who would never have the experience described by Richard Feynman of knowing something about the universe that no one had before”
    ― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Effect
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    K. Ritz
    “Caring without caring,” is how my mother explained it. Thus a memsa can judge anyone – friend or stranger – and remain fair. They care without caring”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: anti-hero, character-voice, dark-fantasy, epic-fantasy, fantasy-readers, inner-conflict, judgment, moral-detachment, quote-collector
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “If an enemy ship cannot be taken over by our own crews, it must be sunk! There is to be no deviation from that!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion
    tags: decisive, earlymedieval, militaryhistory, navalhistory, rulesofengagement, strategy
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    JoDee Neathery
    “Gabriel Edward Mackie, born with soulful maturity and an intrinsic sense of empathy, gazed at life through a poetic contemplative lens relishing the plangent sounds of the wind dancing through the trees during a thunderstorm, inhaling the nutty scent of roasted peanuts at the ballpark, and firmly believing that if he stretched his arms high enough, he could touch his dreams. Driven by his keen curiosity, ability to find a silver lining in the darkest cloud, and vision, he spent boundless energy revering nature’s rarities like the spidery veins in between rose petals and a heron’s powder down feathers.”
    ― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush
    tags: action-thriller, family-life, fiction, fiction-novel, guilt, love, redemption, sorrow, suffering
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    Ashby Jones
    “Coincidence is God's way of showing He cares.”
    ― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird
    tags: faithanddoubt, fateandchance, literaryfiction, readerswhofeeldeeply, southernfiction
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  • #11
    “Such abilities are the true gifts of the spirit, my daughter.”
    ― Candace Lynn Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
    tags: epic-fantasy, fantasy-readers, inner-power, intuition, mind-magic, self-discovery, spiritual-gifts
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  • #12
    “As well, for a young woman, you carry yourself with a special kind of dignity and grace, a quality of confidence and self-assurance that I find most appealing and is not often found in someone your age.”
    ― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht
    tags: adult-fiction, confidence, dignity-and-grace, empowerment, romance-reads, save-this-quote, women-in-fiction
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    “You won’t be able to start your training either, and you won’t be able to meet your true teacher and return home, Theo, until you defeat your own inner dragon.”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: charactergrowth, defeatyourdragon, herowithin, innerwork, metaphysicalfiction, spiritualjourney, thepythagorean
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    Todor Bombov
    “This acute, “a selfdissolving contradiction,” Marx had very precisely seen and foreseen that “it establishes a monopoly in certain spheres and thereby requires state interference.” This contradiction “reproduces a new financial aristocracy” (how much Marx was right!), no matter it will call itself Communist Party of Soviet Union or DuPont Financial Circle. It reproduces “a new variety of parasites . . . , a whole system of swindling and cheating by means of corporation promotion, stock issuance, and stock speculation.”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: analysis, communism, dictatorship, economy, effective, monopolistic, myth, non-fiction, oppression, political-ideology
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    Gary Clemenceau
    “Something was very wrong, somewhere, and if I didn’t get away soon, I feared it would be too late: I’d have no choice but to join them.”
    ― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity
    tags: foreboding, pageturner, stakes, surrealnoir, tension, thrilleradjacent
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    Jeannette Walls
    “She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.”
    ― Jeannette Walls
    tags: admiration, inspirational, life, quality
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    Aldo Leopold
    “Noi ci classifichiamo secondo le nostre vocazioni, ciascuna delle quali ci porta a maneggiare un particolare attrezzo, a venderlo, a ripararlo, ad affilarlo o a dare istruzioni su come fare tutto ciò: attraverso questa suddivisione delle attività evitiamo di assumerci responsabilità per il cattivo uso di qualsiasi attrezzo, salvo il nostro. Ma esiste una vocazione, quella per la filosofia, la quale riconosce che tutti gli uomini attraverso ciò che pensano o desiderano, di fatto maneggiano tutti gli strumenti e quindi, attraverso il loro modo di pensare e di desiderare, stabiliscono se valga la pena di usarne qualcuno.”
    ― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
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    “Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.”
    ― Judith Guest
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    Gregory David Roberts
    “Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.”
    ― Gregory David Roberts
    tags: shantaram
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    Walter Isaacson
    “It is tasteless to prolong life artificially,” he told Dukas. “I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
    ― Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe
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    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “We are the dreamers of tomorrow, and tomorow isn't coming:
    we are dreaming of a glory that we don't really want
    We are dreaming of a new day when the new day's here already.
    We are running from the battle when it's one that must be fought.

    And still we sleep.

    We are listening for the calling but never really heeding,
    Hoping for the future when the future's only plans.
    Dreaming of the wisdom that we are dodging daily,
    Praying for a savior when salvation's in our hands.

    And still we sleep.
    And still we sleep.
    And still we pray.
    And still we fear...
    And still we sleep.

    s. 145-146”
    ― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
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