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    Lesley Glaister
    “To think how thrilled she was when she took the job to have to sign the Official Secrets Act. It seemed so deliciously cloak and dagger, and she thought she'd become privy to important national secrets, or at least something interesting.  But it's all piffle, baffling as hell and twice as boring.”
    ― Lesley Glaister, A Particular Man
    tags: dark, family-drama, forbidden-connections, haunting, historical-fiction, memory, post-trauma, romance, war, yearning
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    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
    “Fairness isn’t about charity. It’s smart business.”
    ― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
    tags: academic, bias, chemistry, emotional-intelligence, grounded, power-balance, relationship, research, teamwork, workplace-norms
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    Sara Pascoe
    “And she was right. No matter how they tried, the two humans, with the cat but without the microchip, couldn’t connect to headquarters. Raya heard a loud popping sound in her mind, like a huge rubber band being snapped, like a glider plane released from a Piper Cub.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: adventure, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, occult, supernatural, teen-ya, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal
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    A.R. Merrydew
    “The concept and subsequent development of these JEN2 successors to the old machines, was a story in its own right. It was also one marred with frustration, hidden agendas and ultimately punctuated with a sad human tragedy.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
    tags: destruction, drama, dystopian, earth, fast-paced, human-evolution, humans, machines, trilogy, war
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “He shoved her aside and forced his sword, to the hilt, straight through James’s torso.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: coat-of-arms, death, fate, hero, honorable, king, race-against-time, save-the-world, scientist, sword
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    Tom Clancy
    “Either people were trustworthy or they were not.”
    ― Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
    tags: death, guilt, madness
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    Harold Bloom
    “Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.”
    ― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
    tags: impatience, reading
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    Rebecca Skloot
    “people”
    ― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “He wanted to know something about me. I leaned over and put my mouth to his ear. It was barely a whisper.
    'I'm a murderer.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
    tags: murder, salt-to-the-sea, secrets
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    Sara Pascoe
    “Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: children-s, fantasy, occult, paranormal, supernatural, teenagers, urban, ya-paranormal, young-adult
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    Steven Decker
    “I felt the rough fingers of Papa’s hands brushing away my tears. “Enough
    tears, Mija. Enough tears.”
    ― Steven Decker, INNOCENT AGAIN: A LEGAL THRILLER
    tags: climatic, drama, excitement, iction-novel, mysterious, profound, suspense, tense, thriller
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  • #13
    “Anyone who says "Trust me" is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: humour, life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, writer
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  • #14
    “We need to embrace deliverance in the body of Christ so that God’s people can receive their full inheritance and be free from the chains of the devil.”
    ― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression
    tags: believe, change, courage, dig-deep, don-t-judge, explore, faith, find-yourself, goal-setting, jesus
    235 likes

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Locating the village elders, he said to them, “I think that we are in for a bad time. The American Sky Soldiers are coming by helicopter and the usual things the Americans do of air strikes by fighter-bombers and by B52 large bombers is starting at Long Phuoc! I fear the worst!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: documented, educational, history-resource, leaders, political-dictatorship, research, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam
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    Shafter Bailey
    “The beautiful stranger cuddled Cindy, and she rocked the chair slightly as she spoke softly to her. “Suicide is a problem, not a solution. Humans you love would be hurt deeply if you left them. Becky Johnson and her parents would be crushed. Your grandparents in Florida never”
    ― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings
    tags: childhood-trauma, cultural-impact, faith-in-humanity, fortitude, government, inspirational-journey, miracles-of-life, national-recognition, power-of-one, rebuilding-life
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    Koushun Takami
    “You're so kind, Kazuhiko. That's what I like about you."
    I like you, too. I love you so much."
    If he weren't so inarticulate, Kazuhiko could have said so much more. How much her expression, her gentle manner, her pure untainted soul meant to him. How important, in short, her existence was to him. But he wasn't able to put into words. He was only a third-year student in junior high, and worst yet, composition was one of his worst subjects.”
    ― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale
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    Forrest Carter
    “Fall is nature’s grace time; giving you a chance to put things in order, for the dying.”
    ― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree
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    Christopher Paolini
    “Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.”
    ― Christopher Paolini
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    James Fenimore Cooper
    “In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Deity, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.
    Religion's first lesson is humility; its fruit, charity. In the great and sublime ends of Providence, little things are lost, and least of all is he imbued with a right spirit who believes that insignificant observances, subtleties of doctrine, and minor distinctions, enter into the great essentials of the Christian character. The wisest thing for him who is disposed to cavil at the immaterial habits of his neighbor, to split straws on doctrine, to fancy trifles of importance, and to place the man before principles, would be to distrust himself.”
    ― James Fenimore Cooper
    tags: america, christianity, religion, sectarianism, self-denial
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “It was a perfectly normal May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical blue-and-silver costume spotted Sophie and decided to accost her as well, Sophie shrank into a shop doorway and tried to hide. The young man looked at her in surprise. "It's all right, you little gray mouse," he said laughing rather pityingly. "I only want to buy you a drink. Don't look so scared.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
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    Leon Uris
    “Su profesión le había enseñado a esconder el miedo, a mostrarse impasible ante las tragedias. El lado negro del mundo, sus penalidades y su miseria formaban parte del trabajo cotidiano.”
    ― Leon Uris, Armageddon
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