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    Max Nowaz
    “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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    William Kely McClung
    “Lots of things went into creating a monster, but nothing had prepared her for actually being caught by one.”
    ― William Kely McClung, Black Fire
    tags: black-ops, exploits, fury, kidnap, military, mission, murder, sex-trafficking, suspense, violent
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    Dale A. Jenkins
    “Yamamoto was considered, both in Japan and the United States, as intelligent, capable, aggressive, and dangerous. Motivated by his skill as a poker player and casino gambler, he was continually calculating odds on an endless variety of options. He played bridge and chess better than most good players. Like most powerful leaders he was articulate and persuasive, and once in a position of power he pushed his agenda relentlessly. Whether he would push his odds successfully in the Pacific remained to be seen.”
    ― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
    tags: courageous, death, documents, facts, lies, life, midway, miscommunication, pearl-harbour, war
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    Steven Decker
    “And I assure you, I am perfectly sane now. Stable as a workhorse in old Ireland, my friends, with only one goal in life. To do good. Always good.  ”
    ― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time
    tags: action, adventure, drama, fiction, humanoid, sci-fi, time, time-travel, travel
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    John Payton Foden
    “Stefan, please, get to work.  Take a picture of this.
    You want a photo? Of this?
    War in all its ugliness.  A Pulitzer Prize awaits.
    You want me to document a war crime? Your war crime?
    Yes.  I do.
    You understand they can’t be untaken.
    Proceed.”
    ― John Payton Foden, Magenta
    tags: bad, dark, death, evil, fight, good, insecurity, murder, survival, war
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “نحن الملامون إن لم يأخذ الواقع الشكل الذي نرغب فيه. كل ما لم نرغب فيه بالقوة الكافية هو الذي نسميه غير موجود. إرغب فيه، و ضمخه بدمك و عرقك و دموعك و سيتجسد. الواقع ليس أكثر من وهم خاضع لرغبتنا و معاناتنا”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco
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    Jean-Dominique Bauby
    “But we can certainly play hangman, the national preteen sport. I guess a letter, then another, then stumble on the third. My heart is not in the game. Grief surges over me. His face not two feet from mine, my son Théophile sits patiently waiting—and I, his father, have lost the simple right to ruffle his bristly hair, clasp his downy neck, hug his small, lithe, warm body tight against me. There are no words to express it. My condition is monstrous, iniquitous, revolting, horrible. Suddenly I can take no more. Tears well and my throat emits a hoarse rattle that startles Théophile. Don’t be scared, little man. I love you. Still engrossed in the game, he moves in for the kill. Two more letters: he has won and I have lost. On a corner of the page he completes his drawing of the gallows, the rope, and the condemned man.”
    ― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.”
    ― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
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    Oliver Sacks
    “Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily.”
    ― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
    tags: aphasia, grasping, ideas, lies, understanding
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  • #10
    “But the Dog was gone forever. Lirael”
    ― Garth Nix, Goldenhand
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  • #11
    “I knew exactly what kind of effort I was going to need to get where I wanted to go.”
    ― Vernon Davis
    tags: experiences, family, influence, journey, life, love, management, motivating, resilience, self-healing
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    J. Rose Black
    “Warm, aquamarine eyes stared into him—providing a lifeline to shore. And he wondered if she was really the one who needed saving . . .”
    ― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath
    tags: adversity, drama, funny, love, ptsd, relationship, romance, romantic-comedy, spicy, witty
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  • #13
    “It is working for God, not a boss. Maybe you will get a raise in consciousness.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: drama, empathy, healing, imagination, imaginery, insight, meditating, meditation, second-person, self-love
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    Rebecca Harlem
    “Visitors are not permitted to see me twice. You will have to join the cult in order to do so. If the visitor sees me for the second time, he does not recognize me.”
    ― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac
    tags: explore, fun, interwoven, kinky, literature, marriage, personal, personal-growth, self-discovery, sexual
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    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “Water was quiet for a bit before it said, “I want to tell you about you and me and how we are connected. I’m part of you and you are part of me. I am part of the trees, the plants, and the rocks. I am part of everything!”
    ― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water
    tags: eco-consciousness, energy, energy-fields, family-time, gratitude, healing, mindfulness, nature-awareness, nurturing-environment, teaching-connection
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  • #16
    “This is step one to receiving God’s heart: Decide that your mission on this earth is to obey God every single day.”
    ― Kathryn Krick, The Secret of the Anointing: Accessing the Power of God to Walk in Miracles
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    Ernest Cline
    “The bastard even refused to watch E.T.! Who doesn’t love E.T., I ask you?”
    ― Ernest Cline, Armada
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    Michael Pollan
    “If alcohol fuels our Dionysian tendencies, caffeine nurtures the Apollonian.”
    ― Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “You can't miss what you never had.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Polo Is My Life
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Where do memories go once we’ve lost our ability to summon them? It”
    ― Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall
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    Emma Donoghue
    “The old world was changed utterly, dying on its feet, and a new one was struggling to be born.”
    ― Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
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    Douglas Adams
    “The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this.
    The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem.
    This is:
    Change.
    Read it through again and you'll get it.”
    ― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
    tags: humor, science, scifi
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