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#1

“Jack, this is Vance McGruder. I couldn’t find your cell number so I’m taking a chance on reaching you at the cottage. It’s Monday afternoon and I need you here as soon as possible. I’ve arranged for a one-way, first-class ticket on Delta Air Lines on their 3:15pm flight tomorrow afternoon to Atlanta and connecting on to LAX. I’ll have a car and driver at LAX to pick you up. Call me as soon as you get this message.”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

tags: fiction, fiction-novel, mystery-suspense

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#2

“Pack speaking about his new love, Sky: “Well, let’s see. She has the animal husbandry skills of a vet, the organizational skills of a Six Sigma guru, and the mechanical skills of a…trained mechanic. She doesn’t require handyman help. And she’s nice to look at. Other than that, she leaves a lot to be desired. And maybe I omitted the best part, which is that she’s a fine human being with strong values.”
― John M. Vermillion, Pack's Posse

tags: action-hero, american-politics, crime-thriller, fast-paced, leadership, patriotism, pslam-91, us-marshal

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#3

“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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#4

“He glanced at Sally. She sat on the edge, her feet dangling over the two-hundred-foot drop, just like he’d done all those years ago, secretly hoping his parents would tell him to come back, that it was dangerous. They never even got out of the car.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

tags: action, scared, thriller

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#5

“Now, you’ve never seen a rat, until you’ve seen a Vietnamese rat. That’s unless you include some o the politicians who push to keep this war going at the same time they are helping their own sons escape the draft.”
― Michael Zboray, Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

tags: fighting, ptsd, recovery, soldiers, truths

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#6

“We stood silent. After a moment I said, "Real Geniuses never think they're geniuses."
"Who says?"
"Me."
"Because why?"
"Because genius is nine-tenths perspiration. Haven't you ever heard that? As soon as you think you're a genius, you slack off. You think everything you do is so great and everything.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

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#7

“Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same. I was born up there but I'm no stranger here. Have always felt at home everywhere, even in Virginia, where they hate me. Everywhere you go there's nothing but the same rock and dirt and houses and people and deer and birds. They give it all names, but I'm at home everywhere. Odd thing: unpatriotic. I was at home in England. I would be at home in the desert. In Afghanistan or far Typee. All mine, it all belongs to me. My world.”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

tags: home

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#8

“This moment will just be another story someday.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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#9

“Use your head; cut off theirs.”
― Max Brooks, Zombie Survival Guide, The: Complete Protection From The Living Dead

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#10

“I do not understand how any one can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to. In the forest there is a constant stirring in the treetops, as though on the stillest days the breathing of the earth is yet audible…The universe breathed, and the world inside it breathe same breath. This was the cosmic life, with suns and moons to make it lovely. It was important only to keep close enough to the pulse to feel its rhythm, to know… one’s own minute living is a torn fragment of a larger cloth.

Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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#11

“Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place. And men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the the Holy Cross.”
― Sir Thomas Mallory, Le Morte d'Arthur

tags: kingarthur

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#12

“Scott's mind was racing, struggling to comprehend the events unfolding around him. They were talking about disposing of Twinkle like he was a rusty old bike that no-one rode anymore.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

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#13

“ It was stated by an Australian Army Officer, “Phuoc Tuy offers the perfect terrain for guerrilla warfare. It has a long coastline with complex areas of mangrove swamps, isolated ranges of very rugged mountains and a large area of uninhabited jungle containing all of the most loathsome combinations of thorny bamboos, poisonous snakes, insects, malaria, dense underbrush, swamps and rugged ground conditions that the most dedicated guerrilla warfare expert could ask for.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, history-resource, leaders, research, southeast-asia, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam

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#14

“Our experiences are all a result of our personal energy signature, which develops from our focus of attention. Once we realize this, we can create a world of light and love in our personal consciousness, which also flows into the consciousness of humanity and the entire cosmos.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

tags: awareness, cosmos, energy-flow, photons, quantum-energy, quantum-entanglement, quantum-realm, space-and-time, subatomic-particles, unseen-energies

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#15

“Christ, I feel like a naughty schoolboy again,” said Alec as they walked into King’s Bench Walk. “We have just had a dressing-down by the headmaster. Strider could easily be a man handy with a cane.”
“That man Strider is a crook,” said Bing-Wallace. “His utterances are like the product of a performance of Joseph Pujol … Le Pétomane!”
“Who is Joseph Pujol?”
“He is a well-known French flatulist performer.”
“What?” Alec stopped dead,
“A fartist, dear boy, a performer of farts.” Bing-Wallace began to giggle, as did Alec.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

tags: atmospheric, complex-friendships, forbidden-romance, historical-drama, intense-dialogue, logical-deductions, passionate-encounters, post-war-healing, uncovering-lies, whodunit

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#16

“It’s not just the big moments that count, it’s all of the small actions that feed our heart and soul on a daily basis. Cherish those moments and reflect on how to replicate them often.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: attitude, choice, education, goodness, inspiration, inspiring, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting

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#17

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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#18

“The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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#19

“For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.”
― E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

tags: dead, where-angels-fear-to-tread

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#20

“Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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#21

“We are all capable of becoming the blind censor, of imposing our visions and desires on others.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

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#22

“In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: political-science, politics, strategy, warfare

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#23

“Now look. I didn’t mean the senator killed the old man himself, but he makes things happen. The old man wouldn’t sell his property to Senator Olmsted. Two weeks later, the old man’s body was found down by the town creek. According to the autopsy, he died from a Copperhead snake bite.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder in Buckhead

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, insight, mystery, noir-mystery, unpredictable

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#24

“Captain Gribble was making progress on his pony with his eleven mules. May 6th We reached Shaduzup about 11 a.m. All morning the sky was full of aeroplanes as they passed to and fro from a northern aerodrome in Burma, but I had only just reached the camp when I heard the crump, crump and crump of bombs falling in the direction of Myitkyina …”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

tags: invest, wwii

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#25

“Routine had become rhythm. Rhythm had become identity.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

tags: action, drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction-novel, intense, psychological, scary, supernatural-thriller, suspense

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#26

“In response to be asked about Boris Johnson becoming UK Prime Minister...

"I'm delighted. As the UK continues to plunge ever faster into a future akin to a dystopian novel I'll never run out of material to write more books. Although now that reality is more bizarre than fiction maybe plot-lines will need to be more ambitious. Perhaps a book where Boris Johnson is really an accidental sentient snafu of Trump's scrotum lint. Kind of a sequel to the Bush-Blair story. I see musical rights being drawn up as we speak.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: dystopian, dystopian-future, political, politicians, politics, prime-minister, satire, satire-quote, satire-quotes

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#27

“Love is a fire without flames
Souls burned no prints, no ashes remains
For which is more hurtful losing your love
Or courage to love again
Therefore I fear love
I fear it again”
― Yarro Rai, Never meant to be: Modern day Romeo and Juliet

tags: love, love-quotes, love-story, passion, passionate-love

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#28

“When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

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#29

“Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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