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#1

“The disturbing part is that no one teaches us how to deal with death at any point during our medical training, or even during our lifetime for that matter, particularly in a field such as mine where death was an inevitable certainty for some patients.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: balance, dedication, emotions, heartfelt, medical, medical-fiction, overworked, suffering, trauma, wellbeing

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#2

“I’m not convinced we can take them out from a distance, Nathan. That’s always been the American solution, by the way. Bigger guns. Nukes. Drone strikes.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

tags: action, drama, intrigue, suspense

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#3

“Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover to rescue the Scroll’s Key Keeper? Where were the College’s thanks for that?”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, betrayal, detective, drama, fiction, investigation, realistic, suspense, thriller

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#4

“Her growing possessiveness felt both good and bad.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#5

“Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, engaging, fiction, literature, new-adult, romance, ya, ya-litterature

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#6

“Because the beings from that planet are now circling Earth in a ship the size of a small moon, threatening to destroy all human life if we don’t cooperate.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

tags: action, dark, different-worlds, drama, fascinating, literary, love, mysterious, mystery, rules

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#7

“From the start, I told you! We should’a just handled this ourselves. You should’ve handled it the way my daddy would’ve.” She paused, looking at Tom, and lowered her voice, “Just like Crockett.”
― J.K. Franko, The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior

tags: destruction, drama, exciting, fast-paced, fiction, gripping, intense, lies, retribution, thriller

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#8

“On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war

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#9

“The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

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#10

“If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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#11

“How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence. ”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday

tags: absence

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#12

“Wait for it,' the single dash seems to whisper, with a twinkle if you're lucky.”
― Lynne Truss

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#13

“Between blasts she resorted to Epictetian philosophy in the form of pepsin chewing gum.”
― O. Henry, Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry

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#14

“language”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

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#15

“Actually, we’re with the United States Army stationed in Germany. My friend Paul comes here about every two to three weeks to visit his Dutch girlfriend.”
― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

tags: biotechnology, desire, iran, middle-east, military, nuclear, scientists, suspense, war

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#16

“Some days are better than others, for human optimism has no limits.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

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#17

“Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: adventure, cult, death, drama, dystopian, fiction, future, mystery, sci-fi

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#18

“You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

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#19

“If there is Predestination, then God is the devil.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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