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#1

“Elpidio sensed that David had more to say but was holding back due to their friendship. He wondered why David had gone along with Emiliana's seemingly impulsive ideas.”
― Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller

tags: adventure, excitement, exciting, fast-paced, fiction, friendship, full-on, gripping, intrigue, thrilling

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#2

“He turned and smiled resolvedly at her. He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with what she considered to be the silly confines of love or marriage.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: betrayal, emotions, friendship, historical-backdrop, honour, human-emotions, love, passion, resilience, torment

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#3

“He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire."
"And you? What are your plans?"
"I have no plans to kill your father.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: action-packed, aliens, compelling, dry, earth, fast-paced, humans, humour, intrigue, mission

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#4

“Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fiction, historical-fantasy, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

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#5

“Ketal is not hell! It’s the K’tul homeworld. What is the difference?”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

tags: action-and-adventure, adventure, fantasy-adventure, fiction-writing, love, magical, mystery, sci-fi, universe

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#6

“The rules are as treacherous as wolves in the sheep pasture.”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

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#7

“The optimism was like the sun after a long spell of clouds and rain, a euphoric rush which produced both envy and awe in anyone who had become jaded, resigned, who had given up on their dreams.”
― John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

tags: drug-cartels, drug-trafficking, intrigue, japan, japanese-culture, kenya, love-connection, nigeria, true-crime, uganda

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#8

“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

tags: fiction, novelists, novels, writers, writing

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#9

“After twelve centuries, a little hope had come into the world - and then came an illiterate prince to ride roughshod over it with a barbarian horde and...”
― Walter M. Miller

tags: history, politics

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#10

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: on-writing

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#11

“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea. ”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

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#12

“Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. What brother-man and brother-Christian must suffer, cannot be told us, even in our secret chamber, it so harrows the soul! And yet, oh my country! these things are done under the shadow of thy laws! O, Christ! thy church sees them, almost in silence!”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

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#13

“I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#14

“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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#15

“Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, athens, democracy, educational, evolution, fiction, greece, love, love-story, novel

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#16

“George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will, she promised herself. She would stake her life that those last words from her son would be solved by her. They were steppingstones into… whatever the wind and the stars and the valiant trees held for her.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: betrayal, dramatic, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, mystery, noir-mystery, suspense, thriller

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#17

“Even as she fell, her bones lit through her skin, he spun blindly, and drew the sword in a flash that would have made Musashi gasp.”
― William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven

tags: action, action-fantasy, adventure, adventure-fantasy, androids, fantasy, fun, good-versus-evil, magic, sci-fi

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#18

“Hannibal had entered his heart’s long winter. He slept soundly and was not visited in dreams as humans are.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

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#19

“Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

tags: resentment, respect

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#20

“When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

tags: change, getting-older, time

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#21

“The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author . . .”
― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

tags: book-burning, censorship

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#22

“that sometimes marriages are like friendships that get tested, and people have to work through things.”
― R.J. Palacio, Pluto

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#23

“The best people all have some kind of scar.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

tags: emotional-pain, scars

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#24

“Cindy Divine rushed out of her first-period classroom at Calloway County Middle School. Betty Sue Bowling, her English teacher, rushed to the doorway and ordered her back to the classroom. Cindy ignored her as she ran to the nearest fire alarm and pulled the handle. A screeching blare flooded the classrooms and hallways.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

tags: compassionate-leadership, emotional-advocacy, freedom, guardian-angels, hope-against-all-odds, humanity-restored, love-and-loss, redemptive-arc, standing-up, the-power-of-faith

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#25

“Every day is a battle. Still. She doesn’t need this…this mess. The nightmares. She doesn’t deserve what I’d put her through. And she probably wouldn’t stick around anyway. Who would?”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

tags: adult-romance, drama, fiction, humour, literary-fiction, love, ptsd, romance, satire, steamy

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#26

“Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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

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#27

“ At one side of the creek, she builds a small cairn of stones underneath a large, oak tree. “In remembrance of Aunt Beca,” she says. “Thank you for all the things you taught me. For all the times you listened when I needed someone to talk to. For all the love and support you offered me.”
― Dawn Chalker, Lost and Found

tags: family, family-life, grateful, grief, listening, loss, memory, page-turner, passion, support

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#28

“He’s a bad man, Mama, came the thought, somehow manifesting itself into the voice of my little Maddie. ”
― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

tags: action, adventure, drama, fiction, literary-fiction, manifest, metaphysical, sci-fi, science, travel-adventure

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#29

“Blair continued. “The old man only visits me in dreams. Dressed always in black with amber fire as his companion, he is older than the mountains. He is the fire of othium and he comes with an ancient name, Oien. He demands you take your throne and raise his armies. You will rebuild for him the glory of the second age.”
Robert Reid – The Son”
― Robert Reid, The Son

tags: fantasy-fiction, medieval-fantasy, tudor-period

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#30

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

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