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#1

“You are so much like your mother. Stubborn and relentless when you’re focused on something.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

tags: dimensions, fantasy-fiction, fiction

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#2

“If we didn't have the storms, we'd never get to play in the waves.”
― Judy Prescott Marshall, Still Crazy

tags: christian-fiction, contemporary, fiction, women-s-fiction

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#3

“I believe that one of the reasons that Christians are ineffective is because we do not take enough time with the Holy Spirit to know the will of God; and just as with Joshua and the Israelite, we make decisions with our emotions and warped moral compass.”
― Tolulope Oyewole, The Spirit of Prayer: The Believer's Authority on the Earth

tags: moral-philosophy, prayer, spiritual-growth

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#4

“I’m a young man, trained to do what is necessary, but all the training in the world can’t prepare you for the first time you have to kill another human being or see a buddy get blown apart. No, I’m not tough… I’m scared.”
― Michael Zboray, Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

tags: heros, memoir, soldier, vientnam, war

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#5

“You don’t have to be around long to understand the world is a frightening place, that life includes situations you have no control over, that anything can happen. Everybody needs friends and a family.”
― Jack Getze, Making Hearts

tags: family-drama, novel-writing

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#6

“Another [change] affects Chip and Joanna Gaines. This couple, who had reached unfathomable heights of popularity with their ‘Fixer Upper’ TV program in the 21st century, are instead homeless and living in a large cardboard box behind the Waco, Texas, bus station.”
“That’s harsh,” said Eddie. “What did they do to deserve that?”
“Nothing. It’s just one of those undesirable consequences that we could not avoid. It was either that or lose Australia.”
― Steve Bates, Back To You

tags: action, consequences, time

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#7

“Don't worry about being a normal person, let the normal person worry about not being you.”
― Gary Edward Gedall

tags: life-philosophy

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#8

“That there would be a political advantage in having the declaration written by a Virginian was clear, for the same reason there had been political advantage in having the Virginian Washington in command of the army. But be that as it may, Jefferson, with his "peculiar felicity of expression," as Adams said, was the best choice for the task, just as Washington had been the best choice to command the Continental Army, and again Adams had played a key part. Had his contributions as a member of Congress been only that of casting the two Virginians in their respective, fateful roles, his service to the American cause would have been very great.”
― David McCullough, John Adams

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#9

“It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

tags: life

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#10

“It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire

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#11

“I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?”
― Anne Frank

tags: page-197

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#12

“When you love someone, you sacrifice.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

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#13

“Flipping through, the first thing she came across was a restaurant menu featuring animals and rodents in a reference to the starvation of residents during the Siege of Paris of 1870-71 − horse soup, dog cutlets, ragout of cat, roast ostrich, fricassee of rats and mice? The French and their obsession with food presentation.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: climatic, drama, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, fiction, intrigue, mystery, tense, unpredictable

40 likes

#14

“Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be successful." If you can learn to define your own success and not let others dictate it, you can find fulfilment.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: adventure, challenge, drama, fantasy, fiction, sci-fi, science-fiction, struggles, thrilling

401 likes

#15

“ She'd been freed from weakness by summoning the courage and strength to live and to love. She felt the thrill of freedom, freedom to do as she wished and as she was driven.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

tags: historicalfiction, hopefulfiction, loveaftertrauma, readerswhofeeldeeply, resilience, secondchances, traumaandhealing

44 likes

#16

“Get a child interested in learning a skill while young and they will remember forever.”
― Sybrina Durant

tags: learn-a-skill, remember-forever, teach-a-child

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#17

“Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fiction, historical-fantasy, intrigue, magic, mystery

871 likes

#18

“The smell of green grass was rich and comforting. He felt better already. This is splendid. We can all go for a garbage buffet tonight.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animalstories, comfortreads, cozyvibes, funnykidsbooks, humorouschildrensbooks, kidlit, middlegrade, naturelovers, senseofplace

18 likes

#19

“Anyone who says "Trust me" is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: humour, life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, writer

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#20

“Love Has Neither Time Nor Distance.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: loveacrosstime, metaphysicalfiction, philosophicalromance, soulconnection, thepythagorean, timelesslove

39 likes

#21

“… the primitive comprehension that the state property represents a social one, their identification, and their equalization could not resist the criticism of the time. The state property is not socialism. The state-monopoly property, as it was on the both sides of the Berlin Wall and which continues to be such one even after it dropped down, is not social property. There was never and nowhere any socialism! In the twentieth century, we passed through a system of utopian socialism as proof that this was not socialism that was not possible, but the utopia of the writers before Marx and after Marx. We were visited by a utopian socialism, which at the contemporary stage is simply capitalism—state, monopolistic.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: civil-society, democratic, freedom, justice, liberty, monopolistic, myth, oppression, society, totalitarian-system

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#22

“quiet. But when no one was looking I would slip into Ella’s room and steal a book and take it back of the barn and try to read it. Usually I could not decipher enough words to make the story have meaning. I burned to learn to read novels and I tortured my mother into telling me the meaning of every strange word I saw, not because the word itself had any value, but because it was the gateway to a forbidden and enchanting land. One”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

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#23

“you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell

tags: english

30 likes

#24

“A bad deed always brings a punishment.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

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#25

“I tucked this away, afraid to admit how good it was to hear it.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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#26

“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: dalai-lama, happiness, harm-reduction

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