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#1

“Each day I go to this altar,
emptying the night
bucket after bucket,
until I've space enough
for the morning.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

tags: barriers, be-proud, chase-dreams, conquering, dreamer, life, love, smile, soar

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#2

“Snow laden trees,
streets washed clean,
the timeless hymnal
open to the sky
in the deep throated
song of winter.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

tags: chances, change, compassion, completion, confidence, destiny, dig-deep, love-yourself, power, pride

69 likes

#3

“He sped up. The right mirror was the first to go, then the left, followed by angry honking from the cars his mirrors hit as he threaded the needle between the narrow lanes.”
― L. M. Weeks, Bottled Lightning

tags: action, adventure, drama, excitement, exciting, fiction, full-on, intrigue, thrilling

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#4

“How many languages do you speak, you barely monolingual prick?”
― L. M. Weeks, Bottled Lightning

tags: action, asian-american-literature, fiction, japan, law-practice, legal-thriller, russian-literature, technology, thriller, thrilling

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#5

“This shouldn’t be happening. I’ve spent many nights pushing aside my memories of her. But in the blink of an eye, here she is resetting my fantasies as if it were yesterday”
― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance

tags: can-t-forget-her, emotional-romance, heart-vs-head, old-flame-energy, romance-readers, second-chance-romance, tension-on-sight, uninvited-feelings, yearning

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#6

“He’s soaked. Rain clings to his clothes, his hair darkened and dripping, his breath shallow like he ran the whole way here. His eyes meet mine—raw, searching. And I swear, for one fragile second, the rest of the world disappears.”
― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance

tags: book-tok-romance, emotional-romance, fate-feels, longing, los-tin-you, rain-scene, ran-to-you, romantic-drama, vulnerable-hero

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#7

“You make me remember what it’s like to want a future instead of fearing it.”
― Tricia Newlan, Never Did I Dream: A Second Chance Off- Limits Romance

tags: character-growth, emotional-romance, healing-journey, hope-after-heartbreak, hopeful-reads, love-after-loss, resilience, tender-love-story

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#8

“Spencer, I need you to kiss me... now.”
― Tricia Newlan, Never Did I Dream: A Second Chance Off- Limits Romance

tags: bold-heroine, contemporary-romance, desire, page-turning-romance, romantic-tension, steamy-reads, undeniable-chemistry, weekend-reads

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#9

“He touched me like I was built from something exquisite. He looked at me like I wasn’t just a ghost from his past but a heartbeat he couldn’t ignore. And now, every time I think about him, I lose my breath.”
― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance

tags: book-lovers, breathless-love, emotional-reads, haunted-by-you, love-that-lingers, past-meets-present, romantic-yearning, second-chance-romance, tender-romance

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#10

“I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

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#11

“The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

tags: life, mercy

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#12

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

tags: storytelling

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#13

“In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional...What a special case I was.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

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#14

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

tags: self-realization

758 likes

#15

“All literature is protest.”
― Richard Wright

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#16

“Wright rebels against the rules and practices of the religion, including its diet, which forbids eating pork. Finds himself opposed to his family in general, except for his mother, who is too sick to help him.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

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#17

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: identity

12879 likes

#18

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: bravery, courage, fear

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#19

“Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: cold, hypothermia, winter

149 likes

#20

“A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: skinchanger, warg, winter-is-coming, wolves

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#21

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
― Founding Fathers, The Declaration of Independence

tags: created-equal, right-to-life, rights

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#22

“The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed. Section 3 - Treason Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of”
― Founding Fathers, The Constitution of the United States of America, with all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and The Articles of Confederation, annotated

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#23

“this Constitution”
― Founding Fathers, The United States Constitution

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#24

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;”
― Founding Fathers, The Declaration of Independence

tags: declaration-of-independence, democracy, government, revolution, state

33 likes

#25

“In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

266 likes

#26

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

tags: bravery, courage, fear

3216 likes

#27

“She's asleep, she can´t be mad in her sleep, can she?”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

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#28

“She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.”
― Emma Donoghue, Landing

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#29

“So then she took me home, or I took her home, or we were both somehow taken to the closest thing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

12 likes

#30

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

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