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    Alan Bradley
    “It started to feel like this thing happening to me was an invisible wall between us, a barrier none of us wanted to acknowledge but that was continuously pushing us apart. I started to feel like an outsider even among my closest friends.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough
    tags: dark-side, facade, haunted, hidden, hidden-world, impossible, occult, occult-power, secret-world, secrets
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    Therisa Peimer
    “She's just one of the plethora of women you rotate through your bed." Lily looked scared out of her mind as the queen changed direction and stalked her. "I will not allow you to besmirch the Esca name with your filthy plot to steal the prince.”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: adventure, drama, fiction, genetics, political, sci-fi, science-fiction, supremacist, war
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    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “One thing, though, was for sure – here I was, alive, healthy but as unquiet in my way as they were in theirs. Transcendent equality. You’ve got to love it.”
    ― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows
    tags: betrayal, dramatic, emotionally-charged, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, mystery, suspense, unpredictable
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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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    Robert Reid
    “Audun, there is something I must now explain to you. You are the illegitimate son of Alberon, who now calls himself Emperor of the North.”
    ― Robert Reid, The Emperor
    tags: action, drama, exciting, fast-paced, fiction, intrigue, military, powerful, revenge, war
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    Michael Parker
    “The fourth man in the terrorist team was Conor Lenihan. Conor had been born in Catholic Belfast and brought up in the sectarian ways of his peers.”
    ― Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant
    tags: bomb, disappearance, dramatic, heart-wrenching, investigation, ira, mercenaries, missing-person, revenge, tension
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    “At this point, it’s as though a demon is haunting me. It’s as though every time I find myself in a difficult situation; it compels me to take the coward’s way out. And I’m fully aware it’s the coward’s way out, yet I cannot help myself”
    ― Cade Mengler, The Companions
    tags: action-and-adventure-fantasy, amulet, ancient-prophecy, forces-of-good, magic, perilous-journey, prophecy, quest, sword-and-sorcery, warrior
    29 likes

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    Chris Cleave
    “It was not the same as charging down a machine-gun nest armed only with a Bowie knife, or strapping in to the tail-gunner seat of a four-engined heavy bomber. And no one else would ever know, since one did not get a medal for letting go of a woman’s hand on a gray Saturday morning in the middle of a European war. But to have faith—that a lover would be constant and life clement—this did require courage in a city more disposed to beginnings than safe continuations. As”
    ― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven
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    Malala Yousafzai
    “The Pashton took revenge after twenty years and another said it was taken too soon.”
    ― Malala Yousafzai
    tags: intersting
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    Rick Riordan
    “Vulcan?" Leo demanded. "I don't even LIKE Star Trek!”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
    tags: prose
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: broken-heart, l-m-montgomery
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