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    C. Toni Graham
    “Smile if you want to. Grimace if you’re told to.”
    ― C. Toni Graham
    tags: crossroads, explore, gratitude, journey, learn, life, opportunity, respect, satisfaction, take-risks
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    Hugo Woolley
    “His mouth went dry and for a split second he had a metallic taste on the sides of his tongue. He stood, turned, and gulped. A vision had appeared from somewhere. Was she real? She was tall, with long, glossy light-gold hair surrounding a perfectly shaped face. The front of her silk white robe was open down to a delightful cleavage where a long silver cross hung. As she walked slowly past Alec to sit at the desk, the robe parted for a fleeting glimpse of her leg. A scent of lily of the valley meandered over him. A hand with long graceful fingers indicated for him to sit again in his chair. She was real!
    She was, without doubt, the most beautiful woman Alec had ever seen.”
    ― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap
    tags: betrayal, church-murder, criminal-masterminds, detective-fiction, emotional-complexity, firsthand-accounts, love-and-loss, melancholy, refugees, symbolism
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
    Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence
    tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance
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    Margarita Barresi
    “Marco opened the walkway gate just as a sprightly grey lizard skittered across the stone path. A bougainvillea vine laden with a riot of purple blooms scaled the right side of the house, and the heady scent of gardenias saturated the air.”
    ― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage
    tags: gripping, longing, patriarchal-society, perseverance, political-fiction, regret, social-justice, tropical-island, u-s-puerto-rico-relations, vivid
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    Terry Goodkind
    “He is teaching them to eat those seeds,” she said through clenched teeth, “out of Raina and Berdine’s hands. The two of them were giggling.” – Cara”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Temple of the Winds
    tags: cara, chipmunks, humor
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    Neal Stephenson
    “Izzy was full of people who were skewed toward the Asperger’s end of the social spectrum, and there was no better way to get them to start talking than to ask them a technical question.”
    ― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “The circus arrives without warning.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “Of course real horror does not depend upon the melodrama of shadows or even the conspiracies of night.”
    ― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
    tags: horror
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    Clement Clarke Moore
    “Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!”
    ― Clement C. Moore, Twas the Night before Christmas A Visit from St. Nicholas
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    Michael Ende
    “The professor smiled. “If people knew the nature of death,” he said after a moment’s silence,
    “they’d cease to be afraid of it. And if they ceased to be afraid of it, no one could rob them of their time any more.”
    ― Michael Ende, Momo
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    Max Nowaz
    “Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
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    K. Ritz
    “Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
                Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, tis fast in stone.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit
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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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    “Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: christmas, life, musings, poisoned
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    Gary Clemenceau
    “The Green Judges, most of them decidedly miffed, grumbled out one by one, though I got a wink and a thumbsup from Washington.”
    ― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity
    tags: literarysatire, magicalrealism, memorable, mythicmodernity, weirdlit, wryhumor
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    “During the Depression of the 1930s everyone suffered, even the rich. It was hard times for all and people helped each other if they could. Americans coming through that together meant something. Now they were being asked to struggle again. But because so many servicemen were killed at Pearl Harbor, Americans had a cause that they all shared – fight the Fascists and keep the threat and the war from coming home. Yet, now the grim reality, the depths of the sacrifices, and the grief of their losses was devastating.”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: america, american-history, discovery, historical-fiction, historical-investigations, historical-mysteries, history-novel, war, war-time-history
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    Sara Pascoe
    “I feel homesick but I don’t know where for.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “He was beautiful.
    The knight was beautiful, handsome when he smiled.
    He didn’t want anyone to see it.
    He didn’t want to acknowledge it himself.
    But for a brief moment, I saw him. The real man inside of him, not the one tortured by secrets and pain.
    And he was beautiful.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
    tags: beautiful, beauty, emilia, florian-beck, handsome, pain, salt-to-the-sea, secrets
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    Neal Stephenson
    “When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author. I feel as if the author and I are on the same wavelength mentally, that we have a lot in common with each other, and that we could have an interesting conversation, or even a friendship, if the circumstances permitted it. When the novel comes to an end, I feel a certain letdown, a loss of contact. It is natural to want to recapture that feeling by reading other works by the same author, or by corresponding with him/her directly.”
    ― Neal Stephenson
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    Eugene O'Neill
    “He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. And yet, he wants a home. He's even proud of having this shabby place. He loves it here.”
    ― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night
    tags: home, hotel, hotels
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it.”
    ― Ursula K. Leguin
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
    "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
    tags: freedom, inspirational, literature
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