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    Adam Scott Huerta
    “L.G.B.T.Q.I.P.O.Z.A.A.C.V………….” ”
    ― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black
    tags: absurd, courage, drug-use, emotional-depth, introspective, manipulation, satire, surrealism, technology, vivid
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    Max Nowaz
    “He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller
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    Alan Bradley
    “When you’re in The System, like after being arrested, you’re no longer a participant. You’re being processed. Instead of an easy to ignore, well-greased cog, you become a sharp edge that needs to be ground down.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough
    tags: betrayal, city, culture, dark, new-york-city, ny, plots, tragedy, twists, vibrant
    184 likes

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    Michael Deeze
    “She cocked an eyebrow at me and said, “No. After the week I’ve just spent with you, there are going to be plenty of people that are gonna want to shoot you. You better get used to that.” Which hurt my feelings a little.”
    ― Michael Deeze, The Deathbed Confessions
    tags: action, agent, chicago, investigation, life-sentence, morally-grey, pain, serial-killer-thrillers, shared-secrets, unpredictable
    25 likes

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    Andri E. Elia
    “I need a minute.”
    ― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand
    tags: bloodshed, child, compelling, destruction, fiction, genetics, mothers-love, planetary-destruction, senses, struggles
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Cung said, “I have researched Vietnamese People fleeing to the land of the Uc da Loi! On the 26th of April 1976, the first boat carrying Vietnamese refugees arrived in Darwin. (Uc da Loi means Big Red Rat. The Vietnamese People named Australians as such because of the red kangaroo painted on the sides of Australian military vehicles. They did not know what a kangaroo was and so, they thought it was a rat. Hence the name of Uc da Loi.)

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: civil-war, knowledge, life-lessons, military-budget, politics, poverty, secession, self-acceptance, social-change, war-weapons
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    Steven Decker
    “As they reached the concert grounds in front of the Great Pyramid, Dani was captivated by the magic of the entire scene. A full moon was rising, casting a gentle shine over the entire area. Spotlights shone on Cheops, the Sphinx, Khafre, and Menkaure, and a vast swarm of hundreds of bats swooped above the stage, devouring mosquitoes as if they were protecting the legendary band from harm at this site of ancient power.”
    ― Steven Decker, Time Chain
    tags: adventure, epic, fantasy, futuristic-romance, original, romance, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, thriller
    66 likes

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  • #8
    “Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: editing, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing
    242 likes

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    Stella Sinclaire
    “Such a shame about that Ethan Green fellow. Stabbed to death, right there in his cabbage field. What’s this world coming to?”
    ― Stella Sinclaire, Fertile Ground for Murder
    tags: detective, investigation, pain, past, protection, tense, tightly-knit, true-crime-podcaster, twists, unveil
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    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “Often I felt like two people. One went into the world and did the living for the other, who was stuck in an endless moment of knowing. Yesterday was today and hereon in.”
    ― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows
    tags: danger, family, fiction, friendship, intrigue, literary, manipulation, pain, profound, suspense
    122 likes

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    Ruta Sepetys
    “The State controls the amount of food we eat, our electricity, our transportation, the information we receive. But with philosophy, we control our own minds. What if the internal landscape was ours to build and paint?”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You
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    John Bunyan
    “Oh! I cannot now express what then I saw and felt of the steadiness of Jesus Christ, the rock of man’s salvation: What was done, could not be undone, added to, nor altered.  I saw, indeed, that sin might drive the soul beyond Christ, even the sin which is unpardonable; but woe to him that was so driven, for the word would shut him out.”
    ― John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
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    Chris Cleave
    “A girl like me gets stopped at immigration.”
    ― Chris Cleave
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    Jean M. Auel
    “body”
    ― Jean M. Auel, The Shelters of Stone
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    Judith Viorst
    “It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures, but it is the loss that shapes the image. —Colette”
    ― Judith Viorst, Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow
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