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#1

“Do you still distrust me?”
“No. Take your necklace with you so you can think of me when I’m not there.” Brown brought the necklace over to her and put it on her neck. “I think it rather suits me,” she laughed and left. Brown didn’t understand what had made him insist she wear the necklace. Maybe it was the readiness with which she had made love, or her frequent disappearances lately, he was just curious. There was no harm in checking, before he parted with the money. Later that evening, before going to sleep he decided to have a look at her location and he was in for a surprise. She had not left Central City at all. In fact she was at the same friend’s address as she had been the last time.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, action-thriller, crime, dark-humor, fast-paced, mystery, thriller

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#2

“It was as if we played chess after denying me both bishops and knights.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#3

“Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

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#4

“He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the complete and almost contemptuously final conquest of a world.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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#5

“I'm just a girl."
"It is tragic how well you have been taught to say that with sadness rather than triumph.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

tags: feminism, girl, kazimir, sarah

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#6

“Blue Boy i ja krenuli smo u potragu za planinom. I našli smo jednu još prije zore. To nije bila baš bogzna kakva planina, prije bi se moglo reći da je to bilo brdo, ali Blue Boy je zacvilio kad ju je vidio.
Odnio sam ga do vrha dok je na istoku izlazilo sunce. Ležao je i promatrao me dok sam mu kopao grob. Nije mogao podignuti glavu, ali dao mi je do znanja kako zna; naćulio je uši i nije skidao oka s mene.
Kad sam završio s kopanjem, sjeo sam na zemlju i stavio njegovu glavu u krilo. Povremeno, kad bi smogao snage, polizao bi me po ruci.
Malo kasnije je bez napora izdahnuo i glava mu je klonula preko moje ruke. Sahranio sam ga duboko u zemlji i naslagao teško kamenje na njegov grob. Tako da ima svoj mir.
Kad sam stavio zadnji kamen, pomislio sam kako je zahvaljujući svom dobrom nosu sigurno već na pola puta natrag u planine.
Lako je njemu sustići djeda.”
― Forrest Carter, Malo drvo

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#7

“A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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#8

“But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,” but anyone could see it looked like her.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, evolution, fiction, golden-age, history, immersive, love, love-story, treacherous

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#9

“A scream pierced the sky, a child’s, so loud he dropped his cup, his right hand ready to reach for a weapon that wasn’t there. A survival reflex from another city, another part of the world. He tried to relax, but the scream had been real. Not like the whining wail he loathed, not even the shocked cry of a kid who’d just hurt himself. This scream had mortal fear in it. After three tours in Afghanistan, he knew the difference.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

tags: action, adventure, suspense-thriller, thriller-novels

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#10

“Death is the ultimate test of faith.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#11

“The Profumo Affair in 1963 profoundly altered British society. It gave lie to the belief that those born into the ruling class were inherently superior and destined to lead.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

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#12

“Calder has stepped over the line too many times. He gets no more chances to go against man and God.”
― Donald Montano, Drink Deep from the Well of Good Intentions

tags: action, adventure, drama, dramatic, literary-fiction, thrilling, violence

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#13

“This is BATL.
War in miniature.
War as a game.
War under glass.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

tags: ai, destruction, drama, dystopian, earth, fast-paced, humans, machines, trilogy, war

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#14

“One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them what can be done, together.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: action, doctors, domestic-thriller, family-life, fiction, health, patients, realistic, ruin, strife

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#15

“God’s mercy and grace over y circumstances propelled my faith and caused me to experience significant spiritual growth.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: covid, dialysis, eye-opening, good-health, grief, inspiring, personal, transformation, wellbeing

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#16

“I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,” laughed Adam. “We won’t have to dispose of the body. I’ll get a pan and brush in a minute and flush him down the toilet.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, magical, realistic, thriller, urban-fantasy

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#17

“As the taxi entered the intersection, the two drivers in the attorney general’s entourage slammed on the brakes. Both Suburbans fishtailed out of control. Ducking in the back seat, Blake could smell the burning rubber from tires skidding on the asphalt and hear the pedestrians screaming and car horns sounding off in rebuke.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: clandestine, counterterrorism, drama, justice, legal, novel, plotting, suspense, target

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#18

“Friggin’ doctors and their friggin’ forms—Zack grouses, silently, forgetting lawyers do the same thing, all the time. ”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal High

tags: bullying, courtroom-drama, crime-fiction, dramatic, emotional, gun-control, psychological, school-shooting, second-amendment

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#19

“ It was stated by an Australian Army Officer, “Phuoc Tuy offers the perfect terrain for guerrilla warfare. It has a long coastline with complex areas of mangrove swamps, isolated ranges of very rugged mountains and a large area of uninhabited jungle containing all of the most loathsome combinations of thorny bamboos, poisonous snakes, insects, malaria, dense underbrush, swamps and rugged ground conditions that the most dedicated guerrilla warfare expert could ask for.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, history-resource, leaders, research, southeast-asia, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam

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#20

“Był to przyjazny rudy policjant z jej dzielnicy. Ten, z którym dawniej rozmawiała matka. Który zawsze puszczał do niej oko, kiedy szła do szkoły. Do którego pomachała w dniu aresztowań, a on odwrócił wzrok. Teraz był zbyt blisko, aby spojrzeć w inną stronę. Patrzyła mu w oczy, ani razu nie spuszczając wzroku. Miał dziwne żółtawe źrenice, niemal złote. Twarz policjanta poczerwieniała ze wstydu i dziewczynka miała wrażenie, że widzi, jak drży. Nic nie mówiła, patrząc na niego z całą pogardą, na jaką umiała się zdobyć.”
― Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key

tags: holocaust

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#21

“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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#22

“If you spend your whole life being someone else, who will be you?”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

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#23

“The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Peony

tags: books

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#24

“A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: literature, nabokov, quote, reader, reading

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#25

“And if there was anything beyond that, its name could only be God.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

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