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#1

“All happened so damn fast,” he said. “’Phone call here after she arrived. Her mom and dad were just after leaving Halifax…ten cars, twelve maybe, made it onto the CBC News.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: climatic, crime, drama, emotionally-charged, fiction, intrigue, mystery, profound, tense, unpredictable

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#2

“I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives though. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?” “You insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you think of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be you. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.” “You mean you don't hate me?” This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him. He was used to hate, he could deal with it, but this he could not understand, he had used the girl ruthlessly and yet she did not hate him.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, action-and-adventure, action-thriller, favourite-books, suspense, thriller, thriller-writing

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#3

“Inseparable as sibs—strained as a couple.”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

tags: action, adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, urban-fantasy

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#4

“A heart full of love sees only beautiful and good qualities in the loved one, turning every moment into eternity.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: eternalmoments, heartfullove, seeingbeauty

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#5

“Captain Scultetus said, “Sir, I am the commander of the Swakopmund Coast Guard. My name and rank are Captain Oskar Scultetus! I respectfully beg you not to open fire upon my city!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: australia, discovery, life-experiences, life-journey, living, love, nostalgia, self, soul, vietnam

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#6

“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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#7

“Decker smiled and shrugged off their laughter. The humour was only barbed if you sat on the outside, and now he was one of them.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: defiant, one-of-them

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#8

“At what point does faith become insanity?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, magic, mystery, past, wit

887 likes

#9

“Stepfather?" "It means he fucks your mum and isn't really your dad.”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

tags: absurd, courage, drug-use, emotional-depth, introspective, manipulation, satire, surrealism, technology, vivid

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#10

“I told him that I would never marry him or anyone else who didn’t love Kit and Guernsey and Charles Lamb!”

From Juliet to Sophie”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: book-quotes, book-quotes-bookworm, quotes-from-books

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#11

“Hang on, the cats are demanding their second breakfast. One second.”
― Jon Scieszka, Who Done It?

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#12

“Haven’t you ever harbored the secret thought that somewhere Huck and Jim are—at this instant—poling their raft down some river just beyond our reach, so much more real are they than the shoe clerk who fitted us just a forgotten day ago?”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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#13

“Eurynome and Ophion made their home upon Mount Olympus, where he vexed her by claiming to be the Author of the Universe. Forthwith she bruised his head, kicked out his teeth, and banished him to the dark caves below the earth.”
― Robert Graves, The Greek Myths : 1

tags: eurynome-and-ophion

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#14

“Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him”
― Christopher Paolini

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#15

“And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: les-miserables, love, sad, sweet

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#16

“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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#17

“Mr. Pugh turned bright red. His cheeks puffed up like the galls of shad from the nearby river. His green- monster eyes rolled around his face, and he pounded both fists down on the table, and through grinding teeth and snorting gasps hollered, “INDEED NOT, MISS KNAPP! Slaves are not allowed to read and write. We have you here with good and steady pay to instruct our children and nothing else. Going near that boy, or any other slave, with chalk or book learnin’ is strictly forbidden! Do you understand me?”
― Sheridan Brown, The Viola Factor

tags: american-civil-war, division, family-ties, game-changer, growth, isolation, justice, mother, trauma, virginia

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#18

“All four of us gasped at the same time—the tree reached the ceiling and curled down at least a foot! What were we to do now?”
― Larada Horner-Miller, Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir

tags: angel, christmas-eve, comfort, delightful, miracle, purity, religion, santa, treasure-trove, warmth

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#19

“Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: editing, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing

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#20

“This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, antasy, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery

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#21

“How power is used in organizations determines whether it unites us with trust or divides us with fear”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

tags: accountability, consultants, empowering, framework, human-resource, nurture, solutions, strategy, team-performance, workplace-culture

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#22

“Being as I am both a woman and working-class, choice don’t come into it, much, for me. I do what I must.” Charles/Karl wanted to say he was sorry, and couldn’t.
“I imagine you don’t talk to many of us, as against studying us in bulk. The dangerous masses. To be put in camps, and set to work on projects.”
“You are being unfair,” said Charles/Karl. “You are mocking me.”
“We can do that, at least, if we dare.”
“Miss Warren,” said Charles/Karl, “I wish you would not talk as though you were a group, or a class, or a committee. I should like to be talking to you as a person.”
“Can you?”
“Why should I not?”
“For every reason. I am both working-class and not respectable. I am a Fallen Woman. I have a daughter. You don’t want to be talking to me as if I were a person, Mr. Wellwood.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Children's Book

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#23

“Its whole expanse was covered with tall, juicy grass, and when the wind blew, great waves passed over it with a sound like troubled water. (The Grassy Ocean)”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

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#24

“The fear that lies at the heart. Only this can keep you from what is yours. Conquer the fear in your heart and you may have anything that you desire.”
― Chuck Dixon, Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1

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#25

“Many people find it difficult living with someone who likes to be alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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#26

“Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and letters you'd never read again.”
― Dennis Lehane, Prayers for Rain

tags: relationships, sad-but-true

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