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    Pernell Plath Meier
    “She’d worn anxiety like a thick robe for so long that it was hard for her to take it off.”
    ― Pernell Plath Meier, In Our Bones
    tags: abusive-relationships, authoritarianism, between-the-lines-pub, corona-pandemic, dystopian, election-2020, great-read, kindleunlimited, racial-tension
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    Darin C. Brown
    “I swam through the thick, smelly, greyish ocean of pressure toward nowhere.”
    ― Darin C. Brown, The Taste of Despair
    tags: fantasy-young-adult, funny-humor, science-fiction, teen
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  • #3
    “Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
    ― Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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  • #4
    Dave Pelzer
    “Be good, be honest and fair, find something I believe in, work hard and keep the faith no matter how long it takes?”
    ― Dave Pelzer, A Man Named Dave
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    Ken Kesey
    “But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
    ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
    tags: truths
    72 likes

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  • #6
    D.H. Lawrence
    “In every living thing there is the desire for love.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
    tags: desire, living, love
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  • #7
    Mildred D. Taylor
    “We have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here”
    ― Mildred Taylor
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  • #8
    Lois Lowry
    “He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.”
    ― Lois Lowry, Messenger
    tags: tears
    193 likes

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  • #9
    Max Nowaz
    “Just now he was on a mind-blowing adventure and it was rapidly spiralling out of control, and this is what he needed to concentrate his mind on. How could he squeeze Daley to get the book back; that’s if Daley had it in his possession in the first place? The next few days were going to be crucial.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
    tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller
    420 likes

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  • #10
    “I don't want to be caught with my pants down.”
    ― March Lions, The Last Sunset
    tags: action, adventure, death, dystopian, life, literary-fiction, past, sci-fi, travel, witty
    159 likes

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  • #11
    Carolyn M. Bowen
    “He wanted a stiff drink to get through the evening, for he knew they’d be wailing, and her family coming unglued.”
    ― Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller
    tags: action-packed, conspiracies, conspire, domination, drama, fiction, plots, secrets, suspense, treachery
    238 likes

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  • #12
    Susan Rowland
    “You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise.”
    [Anna] aimed her defiance at Mary.
    “And you? What’s your reason to hate me?”
    Caroline spoke quietly. “We nearly died — in the fire in those mountains and at the house when Ravi had a gun pointed at us.” Her eyes were full of tears. “The fire you set at The Old Hospital could have killed me as well as Janet and Agnes.”
    Anna muttered into the syrupy dregs of her tea. “Fire, you’re firing me?”
    Mary grimaced. There had been too much fire.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: action, detective, fiction, fiction-novel, murder, realistic, thriller
    440 likes

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    William Kely McClung
    “She circled and rolled the pan, making sure to seal and burn the ragged edges. Pleased to discover the smell of his burning flesh wasn’t that much different than the bacon.”
    ― William Kely McClung, LOOP
    tags: action-packed, compelling, conspiracy, drama, dystopian, fears, gripping, horror, monstrous, technology
    56 likes

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  • #14
    Lois Lowry
    “But why can't everyone have the memories? I think it would seem a little easier if the memories were shared. You and I wouldn't have to bear so much by ourselves, if everybody took a part."

    The Giver sighed. "You're right," he said. "But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me - and you - to lift that burden from themselves.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
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    Markus Zusak
    “Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death
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  • #16
    Julio Cortázar
    “No era en la cabeza donde tenia el centro”
    ― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
    ― Viktor Frankl
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    Ammar Habib
    “We truly are ripples on the lake. However, unlike the water’s ripples, the ripples of life don’t end in death. They carry on in everyone we touch, even if we can’t see it. They echo for eternity, and, in that way, we truly are immortal.”
    ― Ammar Habib, The Orphans of Kashmir
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  • #19
    Chaim Potok
    “... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.”
    ― Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev
    tags: art
    25 likes



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