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#1

“Mildred adjusted the papers and scribbled some more. When she was finished, she took off her glasses, leaving them to swing from the chain around her neck. She gave the women around the table a pointed look. “Now think hard, ladies, can you come up with anything else?”
― Kirsten Fullmer

tags: cozy-mystery, cozy-romance, small-town-mystery

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#2

“I wanted solitude, but a treasure like that didn't exist in the city. I only found silence in Central Park, still littered with people of course, but the only place that held moments of calm. I breathed in that wonderful silence as my pace finally slowed, and nature delighted my senses.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

tags: nature, new-york-city

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#3

“Is it dangerous to plan too much? Yes, we all need to plan, to have a plan, but life goes on regardless of our plans and we know only too well what happens to so many of the best laid plans of mice and men!”
― Leslie W.P. Garland, The Golden Tup

tags: best-laid-plans, dangerous, life-goes-on, of-mice-and-men, plan, planning, planning-ahead, planning-for-the-future, plannings, plans

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#4

“I marveled at the beauty of all life and savored the power and possibilities of my imagination. In these rare moments, I prayed, I danced, and I analyzed. I saw that life was good and bad, beautiful and ugly. I understood that I had to dwell on the good and beautiful in order to keep my imagination, sensitivity, and gratitude intact. I knew it would not be easy to maintain this perspective. I knew I would often twist and turn, bend and crack a little, but I also knew that…I would never completely break.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

tags: autobiography, beauty-of-life, dance, determination, faith, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, powerful, prayer, undefeated

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#5

“Be patient with him. If the same quality did not exist in you, you wouldn’t notice it in him.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

tags: be-patient, brain, middle-grade, personality-trait, quality, science, science-fiction, scientist

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#6

“What if you weren't the person I hoped you were?
That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

tags: love, mystery, sad, thirteen, thirteen-reasons-why

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#7

“no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. like with parents who adore you blindly. and a big sister who feels guilty for being human over you. and a little gravelly-voiced kid whose friends have left him over you. and even a pink-haired girl who carries your picture in her wallet. maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. the universe takes care of all its birds.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

tags: kids, life, teens, universe

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#8

“Live like no else today, so you can live like no else tomorrow.”
― Dave Ramsey

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#9

“Adeline had come to Christianity the same way she had come to sex and smoking:through peer pressure.Thinking about her six kids and her smoker's hack, she wondered if perhaps peer pressure didn't always lead to the best habits.”
― Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue

tags: coyote-blue

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#10

“I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain. I believe this is how Thomas Stone materialized in my life. If that's not the explanation, then I must invoke a disinterested God who leaves us to our own devices, neither causing nor preventing tornadoes or pestilence, but a God who will now and then stick his thumb on the spinning wheel so that a father who put a continent between himself and his sons should find himself in the same room as one of them.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

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#11

“Any place where soul images share hearts and minds becomes a shrine dedicated to those feelings.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: shrineoflove, soulconnection, spirituality

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#12

“GLOBAL TEMPERATURES HAVE LOWERED BY ONE DEGREE. GLOBEWIDE NATURAL INGREDIENT SHORTAGE IN EFFECT AS OF THIS MESSAGE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

tags: absurd, conflicting-desires, desire, disorientation, existential-despair, exploring, freedom, self-doubt, unease, vivid

139 likes

#13

“Some people say
Rhyming is but a sin.
Little sins are fun
So try, before you bin.”
― Max Nowaz, Timbi's Dream

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#14

“Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party for the convenience of the police. It’s like an old-fashioned mystery novel.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: drama, excitement, fiction-novel, investigation, murder-mystery, mysterious, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller

323 likes

#15

“Each moment embrace or more so cherish. As gentle the wind blows,” “wrap yourself within its flow.”
― Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

tags: awakening, crossroads, don-t-give-up, energy, laugh, luck, open-mind, positivity, purpose, struggle

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#16

“I can imagine,’ laughed Bab’s. ‘It’s not every day of the week you meet a female lizard with nail varnish, lipstick and the scent of Channel Number Five.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Inara

tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, compelling, deep, future, humanity, sci-fi, science-fiction, suspense, thriller

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#17

“Fame to an artist is like light to a vampire.”
― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

tags: acceptance, courage, destiny, exciting, fiction, happiness, modern, pleasure, societal-expectations, transformation

124 likes

#18

“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: alone, melancholy, reflection

252 likes

#19

“Life is short, but it is wide. This too shall pass.”
― Rebecca Wells

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#20

“A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

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#21

“It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

tags: bravery, fear

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#22

“In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

tags: masturbation, mutilation

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#23

“...it occurred to me that if others have so often made your life their business--made your life into a question, really, and made that question their business-- then perhaps you will want to guard the memory of those times when you were freer to imagine yourself as the only times that are truly and inviolably your own.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

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