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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

“Most of us can find our way out of the wilderness without Moses.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

tags: sci-fi, scifi, scifi-adventure

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#3

“It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

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#4

“Never try to compel others to change; leave them free to change naturally and orderly because they want to; and they will want to when they find that your change was worthwhile. “To inspire in others a desire to change for the better is truly noble; but this you can do only by leaving them alone, and becoming more noble yourself.” Christian D. Larson (1874–1954) Mastery of Self”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret Daily Teachings

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#5

“It must be awful to feel you're not needed.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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#6

“As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Adding Machine: Selected Essays

tags: burroughs, careers, writers

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#7

“Хүн муу зүйлд төвлөрөөд байвал муу зүйлдээ ороогдож илүү их шаналдаг.
Сайн зүйл бодож, сайн зүйлд төвлөрснөөр өөрийн БЭЛЭГ-ийг олж авах болно.”
― Spencer Johnson, The Present - the Gift That Makes You Happy And Successful At Work And in Life

tags: inspirational-attitude

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#8

“These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm whcih elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranqualize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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#9

“There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are,”
― Eve Ensler

tags: inspirational

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#10

“Impossible, Monsieur ; mon sang se coagule
En pensant qu’on y peut changer une virgule.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

tags: cyrano-de-bergerac, fierté, independance, quote, writing, écriture

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#11

“Look,” Six snaps, “we can’t just stand around gabbing. They could be co—”
Six is cut off by the sudden roar of a noise overhead. It’s a sound made by no earthly machinery. We all look up just as the silver Mogadorian ship throws on its floodlights, momentarily blinding us. Five, shielding his eyes, turns to look at me.
“Is that your ship?” he asks.
“Mogadorians!” I shout at him. Already, dark shapes are descending from the ship, the first wave of Mogadorian warriors on their way to attack.
“Oh,” says Five, blinking confusedly at the ship. “So that’s what they look like.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Fall of Five

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#12

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
― Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

tags: chocolate, strength

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#13

“Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

tags: humorous, life-and-living

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#14

“other motion-picture stars, many of whom had promised to invest in his new corporation, Sebring International. While keeping his original salon at 725 North Fairfax in Los Angeles, he planned to open a series of franchised shops and to market a line of men’s toiletries bearing his name. The first shop had been opened in San Francisco in May 1969, Abigail Folger and Colonel and Mrs. Paul Tate being among those at the grand opening.”
― Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter

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#15

“[Farmer] went to dozens of American and Canadian universities and colleges, preaching his O for the P [Preferential Option for the Poor] gospel, and to South Africa, where he debated a World Bank official at an international AIDS conference. "Africans must learn to curb their sexual appetites," the banker remarked, and Farmer replied, "I want to talk about other bankers, not the World Bankers, but bankers in general. My suspicion is they're not getting a lot of sex, because they spend a lot of time screwing the poor.”
― Tracy Kidder

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#16

“To understand everything is to forgive everything.’ When one can understand the people, their gullibility and their fear, their greed and their lust for power, their ignorance and their docility to the man who shouts the loudest, one can forgive. Yes, one can forgive even what they did. But one can never forget. There”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

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#17

“Sé que mi familia es así pero este silencio me pesa. Tengo la impresión de tener millones de cosas que decir que, en el fondo, no interesan a nadie. Me viene a la memoria lo que decían los supervivientes de los campos de la última guerra al volver a su hogar: las pesadillas no se cuentan. Los demás no imaginan este género de pesadillas. Se instala, entre ellos y nosotras, una especie de statu quo que parece decir: ‘Estás aquí, se acabó, no hablemos más de ello.”
― Betty Mahmoody, For the Love of a Child

tags: biography, motherhood

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#18

“I want to tell him that I don't know what i feel. I want him but i'm frightened to want him. I don;t want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

tags: after-you, frightened, grief, happiness, jojo-moyes, lost, me-before-you, scared

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#19

“There are no photos here, as there were in the woman’s flat. Only books. “You got any good ones, then?” she asks, scanning the shelves. “I don’t know what you think is good,” the woman answers carefully. “Do you have any Harry Potters?” “No.” “Not even one?” Elsa asks, incredulous. “No.” “You have all these books and not a single Harry Potter? And they let you fix people whose heads are broken?”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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#20

“These Americans believed that one great male god ruled the world. Sometimes they divided him into three parts, which they called father, son, and holy ghost. They ate crackers and wine or grape juice, believing that they were eating the son's body and drinking his blood. If they believed strongly enough, they would live on forever after they died.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

tags: christianity, religion

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#21

“The moisture in the air sat in the crevices of storefront windows, like the tears that welled in the corners of her dark brown eyes.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: coming-of-age, emotional-reads, grief, historical-fiction, lyrical-prose, strong-heroine, venice

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#22

“Cole felt something deep inside of him snap. He was done with thinking. He was done being afraid. There was no room for fear when someone’s life was at stake.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

tags: character-arc, courage, crime-thriller, dark-suspense, fbi-profiler, hero-moment, trauma-recovery

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#23

“Water is a source of life but also a source of conflict, greed, and war.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

tags: climate-crisis, climate-issues, community, environmental-nonfiction, global-issues, human-needs, justice, resource-conflict, sustainability, water-justice

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#24

“I hardly think so. If I was ashamed, I wouldn’t have testified on your behalf, admitting the truth that I was your father in front of the United States Naval Court. But, I don’t think now is the time to discuss these matters.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

tags: action, crime, investigate, murder, suspense, thriller

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#25

“Bertram scratched his ear. ‘I was made aware of a bit of a ruckus.The bedrooms used in that house were on the second and third floors. I had just cleared two gentlemen from a room on the third floor at Donovan’s request, he then asked me to tidy up the room ahead of the next guests’ arrival. I was doing that when I heard some shouts from a bedroom below.”
― Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer

tags: documented, educational, entertaining, historical-fiction, history-resource, leaders, political-dictatorship, research, veterans

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#26

“From up here, the world doesn’t seem so small and confining.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: christian-fantasy, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-journey, goodreads-quotes, hopeful-reads, perspective, perspective-quotes, quote-of-the-day

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#27

“It was all about the G.I.s overseas. As the war became more of a reality and blue stars on windows were turning to gold stars indicating a soldier’s death, the tensions at home were increasing. Giving what little they could for the war effort was often an act of desperation. Some people made pacts with God to bring their men home hoping beyond hope that it made a difference.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: america, culture, drama, fiction, fictional-drama, fictional-narratives, historical-fiction, history, war

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#28

“Nothing is more irritating than to hear honest writers protest about depravity when one is quite certain that they make these noises without knowing what they are protesting about.”
― Émile Zola

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#29

“Are you prepared to be the complete Watson?" he asked.

"Watson?"

"Do-you-follow-me-Watson; that one. Are you prepared to have quite obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me chances of scoring off you, to make brilliant discoveries of your own two or three days after I have made them myself all that kind of thing? Because it all helps."

"My dear Tony," said Bill delightedly, "need you ask?" Antony said nothing, and Bill went on happily to himself, "I perceive from the strawberry-mark on your shirt-front that you had strawberries for dessert. Holmes, you astonish me. Tut, tut, you know my methods. Where is the tobacco? The tobacco is in the Persian slipper. Can I leave my practice for a week? I can.”
― A.A. Milne, The Red House Mystery

tags: sherlock-holmes, watson

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#30

“pig and an elephant”
― Jon Scieszka, Terrifying Tales

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