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#1

“That was followed by Sharp saying, “Mick, it is Sharp here. I have an urgent fire mission for you. This is greatly bigger than I thought, and I just know that the Noggies will attack us soon! Request fire upon grid reference which will be given to you by Sunray Delta Six”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: bad, ethics, good, greed, sociology, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

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#2

“No one can make you feel inferior unless you allow them to.”
― Sherman Kennon

tags: inspiration, inspirational-quotes

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#3

“If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, detective, fiction, fiction-novel, murder, realistic, thriller

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#4

“I realized that if you avoid the sin, you will also avoid the fun.”
― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

tags: compelling, connection, exciting, love, personal-growth, resilience, seductive, self-discovery, societal-expectations, unbridled-desire

116 likes

#5

“Some days are better than others, for human optimism has no limits.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

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#6

“Love is the source of everything and is the 'blood' of our souls and existence itself.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: divine-essence, love-and-existence, love-is-everything, soulful-living, spiritual-awakening

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#7

“The endless void of space stretched out before it. Millennia had passed
as it roared through the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. The awesome
ellipse of its original path was continually altered by intermittent proximity
to myriad stars.
It gave off minute bits of itself as it rocketed silently through the
vacuum of space, but still, after all these millennia it was counted large
as such things were measured, and the fact that it had never collided
with anything else after such a tremendous interval of travel was a mute
testimony to the vastness and comparative emptiness of the universe.
Much as humans, on a molecular level, are comprised mostly of space
not of matter, so the universe, for all its galaxies and solar systems, is
comprised primarily of interconnecting emptiness.
Dark, colossal, mindless, and mighty in its mass and velocity, it came
on and on through space. The great alignment had set it on a new path.
Now, one last nudge from the Red Giant in the previous solar system
had fixed its new course, on a fateful rendezvous. Though it was oblivious
to its own destination and nothing in the universe with awareness
had yet detected it . . . Its path was set.”
― Jody Summers, The Mayan Legacy

tags: adventure, colorado, drugs, emotionally-charged, end-of-the-world, escapes, hurt, mission, suspense, turmoil

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#8

“Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”
― Robert A Heinlein

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#9

“Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can’t be given away: it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

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#10

“Strange it was that the British commander-in-chief, known for his chronic gambling, seemed to give no thought to how his American opponent might play his hand. O”
― David McCullough, 1776

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#11

“Why are some things easier to write than say?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

tags: ally-condie, matched

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#12

“That’s how we are programmed”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: artificial-life, big-ideas, chilling-line, control, existential-sci-fi, free-will-vs-fate, science-fiction

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#13

“You don’t need to be loud to get noticed. You don’t have to be big to make a difference. You don’t need to be perfect to earn trust.”
― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

tags: brand-growth, brand-purpose, business-wisdom, courage, inspiring-reads, leadership, marketing-nonfiction, small-business, trust

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#14

“Outside, the sky is as black as my soul. ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: atmosphere, brooding-narrator, dark-fantasy, dark-humor, epic-fantasy, gothic-vibes, moody-reads, night-reads, quote-of-the-day

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#15

“Closed curtains subdued the storm noises, as if the cloth and glass really were a protective shell for Holywell.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: cozy-gothic, gothic-atmosphere, haunted-house-vibes, paranormal-mystery, safe-haven, stormy-reads, witchy-mystery

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#16

“Defeat Your Own Dragon”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: ancient-greece, big-ideas, courage, inner-work, personal-growth, philosophical-fiction, time-travel-fiction

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#17

“This was getting worse by the minute.”
― J L MARRAIN, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

tags: adventure, book-quotes, fantasy, high-stakes, page-turner, relatable, tension

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#18

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

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#19

“The blazing trail of innovation and progress, which often erupted with blazing explosions, had forged a strong nation, hardening it like steel to become the towering pillar of liberty and ultimate beacon of hope for all mankind.”
― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age

tags: american-saga, big-themes, historical-fiction, hopeful-reads, industrial-era, inspirational-quotes, liberty, progress-and-cost

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#20

“There's nothing more haunted than a house. Doesn't matter where, how grand, how small, made of brick, straw, stone, or gingerbread, whether perfectly cared for or blown to bits. Beings gather there. Every house is a planet, exerting gravitational pull. Every house is in a dark wood, every house has a wicked witch in it, doesn't matter if she looks like a fairy godmother...”
― Jane Smiley

tags: haunted, house

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#21

“It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the café, your figure, your dress, that I still see.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

tags: dress, face, figure, longing, love, remember, walked-away

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#22

“How much Dina Aunty relished her memories. Mummy and Daddy were the same, talking about their yesterdays and smiling in that sad-happy way while selecting each picture, each frame from the past, examining it lovingly before it vanished again in the mist. But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be re-created—not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

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#23

“My heart is so small
it's almost invisible.
How can You place
such big sorrows in it?
"Look," He answered,
"your eyes are even smaller,
yet they behold the world.”
― Rumi

tags: spirituality

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