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#1

“They’re stronger than they look.”
― J. Rose Black, The Real Ones

tags: book-lovers, comfort-read, emotional-depth, healing, heartwork, hopeful-romance, resilience, romance-quote, soft-and-strong

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#2

“Do not procrastinate reading the book, or you won’t have time to study it all before the exam.”
― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University

tags: college-advice, exam-prepstudy-motivation, no-procrastination, nonfiction, student-success, time-management

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#3

“Eshra’s arena, dark and vile, like a black mold growing on the skin of the world. Yet oddly beautiful. The longer I stared at those walls, the more beautiful they appeared. Strong. Inviting.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: atmospheric-writing, beautiful-horror, dark-fantasy, epic-fantasy, gothic-fantasy, immersive-reads, saveable-quote, temptation, worldbuilding

53 likes

#4

“Stand in the machine there, let’s see what state your internal organs are in. The images will be projected on screen, and I can go through the diagnosis with you, step by step.” Brown did as he was told and soon images of his vital organs appeared on the screen.  As you can see, your heart is slightly enlarged and your lungs and kidneys are not in good shape either. Have you been experiencing any pain lately?” “Not that I can think of. What can you do to help?” “Difficult to say, you see you are dying” said the Doctor. You can see the discolouration in your kidneys.” Brown strained his eyes.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, action-and-adventure, action-thriller, drama, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, suspense-thriller

462 likes

#5

“Where am I going, sir?” Fear shot through his stomach. He had nowhere else to go.”
― J.L. Marrain, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

tags: coming-of-age, displacement, emotional-reads, loss-and-change, new-beginnings, portal-fantasy, teen-fiction, ya

41 likes

#6

“Adrian von Trotha was thinking, “Soldiers must obey their officers and I shall enforce that! As well, the enemy will not obtain any leniency from me!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: betterment, education, educational, engagement, learning, life, past, present, reflections, soul

195 likes

#7

“But there are other serious issues that concern me; namely, workers rights, safety regulations, and a big lament of mine, child labor issues.”
― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age

tags: american-history, child-labor-awareness, gilded-age, historical-fiction, labor-rights, meaningful-reads, socialissues, workers-safety

63 likes

#8

“Remember to be careful, she told them, and don’t worry about me. No matter what happens, I’ll be back.”
― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode

tags: book-quotes, bravery, fantasy, friendship, hope, middle-grade, page-turner, promise, survival

67 likes

#9

“How lovely. He’d forgotten how magical the Edwardses’ garden was, an oasis of green paths, flowering bushes, and jasmine-covered archways.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animal-story, beautiful-setting, calm-moments, cozy-reads, feel-good-fiction, heartwarming, kids-books, middle-grade, nature-vibes

42 likes

#10

“forget what you know”
― John C. Waugh, busted haiku

tags: fresh-start, micro-poetry, mindfulness, minimalist-poetry, poetry, poetry-lovers, reflective-reads, zen-vibes

52 likes

#11

“While Bonnie may love her books, her favorite thing of all is when kids from the school come over to visit.”
― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words

tags: bookish-kids, childrens-books, community, library-visit, read-aloud, school-trip, storytime

90 likes

#12

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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#13

“When I realized what the drawing was depicting, I thought I would feel horror-stricken and petrified, but a strange calm had settled over me. I said, “This blackness was in my nightmare. It was coming for me to take me away . . . and I was running, trying to escape.”
― Misty Mount, The Shadow Girl

tags: discovery, fantasy, friendship, introvert, invisible, isolated, lonely, mystery, teen-girl, young-adult

145 likes

#14

“I am very thankful that man took one look at me showing with a baby coming along, with my hair falling down, and the broom lying at a mound of broken glass, and supper boiling over on the stove, April wearing a dirty pinafore screaming for me to hold her, and just then the baby in my arms spit up all over me, and he said, You know . . .I'd be kindly obliged if you'd let me have supper some other time. ”
― Nancy E Turner

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#15

“A man can't fight always. If he's drowning or suffocating he's got to be smart and hold back some of his strength for the last the final the death struggle.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

tags: death, drowning, fight, struggle, suffocating

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#16

“circling toward them again. As it leveled off, Zamperini could see the muzzles of the machine guns, aimed directly at them. Zamperini looked toward his crewmates. They were too weak to go back in the water. As they lay down on the floor of the raft, hands over their heads,”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

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#17

“He glared at her. "Aye, and you shall be the best cabin boy I have ever had or I will feed you to the sharks. Savvy?" He turned and stomped back to the
ship”
― Bev Stout, Secrets of the Realm

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#18

“Get up you lazy bastard. The Governor wants a word with you,” said a guard.  He opened his eyes and smiled. There was another guard standing near the cell door in  anticipation of any trouble. The prisoner smiled at him, too.  Now what can the Governor want from me? He wondered. His dishevelled form seemed  incapable of coherent thought. “It’s nice of him to remember me,” he said aloud, trying to  concentrate. “Surprising he’s got any time for a worthless shit like you,” said the first guard.  “I once used to be a very important person,” the prisoner said feebly.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: 21st-century, action, drama, intrigue, thriller, thriller-novels-best

468 likes

#19

“Nonna was steady and safe and always took a strong lead.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: comfort-read, coming-of-age, found-family, grandmother-bond, historical-fiction, resilience, women-supporting-women

198 likes

#20

“He smelled of rain, as if he had blown in on the wind, thought Mary.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: moody-fiction

154 likes

#21

“In the case of our bodies, we cannot sew on additional organs or devices, but people can easily use the existing ‘standard equipment’ of their body, which is ‘delivered as standard from the manufacturer’ but which has huge built-in capabilities for ‘upgrading.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: everydaymysticism, meditationpractice, mindbodyspirit, philosophicalfiction, spiritualjourney, thepythagorean, upgradeyourlife

148 likes

#22

“What’s “ague?”‘ Raya asked.
‘Malaria.’ Oscar said.
‘Oh, great.’
‘Hey, you want plague? They got that too.’ Raya ignored
the cat.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, coming-of-age, coming-of-age-fiction, engaging, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, occult, supernatural, young-adult

438 likes

#23

“If you ever get lost, you can get your bearings and find your way home. Just remember to find Buffalo Butte and head toward that.”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: coming-of-age, grandparent-bond, guidance, home, hope, inspirational-fiction, life-lessons, small-town-story

40 likes

#24

“My name is Fel. I am the child that the Mists spoke of.”
― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode

tags: adventure, book-quotes, courage, destiny, fantasy, found-family, kid-lit, magic, middle-grade

135 likes

#25

“The bar staff and croupiers all wore black with the same green triangle logo emblazoned on their shirts, and contact lenses which made their eyes shine an eerie, vibrant green. The bar optics glowed with the same green light, the intensity of which was linked to the music. As the bartender walked away to fetch the drinks, a breakdown in the techno track commenced and the bottles began to palpitate. The bartender's eyes glowed with a hallucinatory felinity that made Mangle feel nervous.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: descriptive-prose, eerie-attraction, hallucinatory

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#26

“She pressed the knife harder against my throat, her hand shaking. She was scared—which meant she was dangerous.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#27

“What man most passionately wants is his living wholeness and his living unison, not his own isolate salvation of his "soul." Man wants his physical fulfillment first and foremost, since now, once and once only, he is in the flesh and potent. For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn and the dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time. We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human soul, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family. There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.”
― D.H. Lawrence

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#28

“Thus far I am a standing mark of the weakness of great men in their vice, that value not squandering away immense wealth upon the most worthless creatures; or, to sum it up in a word, they raise the value of the object which they pretend to pitch upon by their fancy; I say, raise the value of it at their own expense; give vast presents for a ruinous favour, which is so far from being equal to the price that nothing will at last prove more absurd than the cost men are at to purchase their own destruction.”
― Daniel Defoe, The Fortunate Mistress; or, a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana

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#29

“Men are so self-complacent in their own affairs, and so willing to deceive themselves, that they are rescued with difficulty from this pest. If they wish to defend themselves they run the risk of becoming contemptible.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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