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#1

“She peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads, like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the distance.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, drama, fantasy, fiction, iction, paranormal, teen-ya, urban

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#2

“The salt of Elat stored on the deck began to dissolve and the purple colour in the water deepened as it spread out. As the concentration of salt increased around the first transport, the ferocity of the othium fires became more intense. In a few moments the heat and the salt caused the othium to reach critical level, and a huge explosion blew both transports into matchwood. The blasts grew in intensity as rock after rock exploded.”
― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#3

“Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman’s silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: fiction-novel, murder, past-experiences, personal-relationships, power, psychological, tense, thriller

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#4

“I reached and grabbed ahold of the garden rake that was leaned up against the tree, when suddenly I felt my heart begin to race and I began to feel dizzy as my visual field became black. That is the last thing I recall before awakening to find myself lying on the ground in the front yard, with the handle of the rake resting on my chest.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: heartfelt, helping-others, hospital-bureaucracy, humour, manipulation, medical, medical-drama, medical-fiction, overworked, passion

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#5

“Where’s my uncle?” she asked.
“I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place before I bought it, then he’s pushing up daisies.”
“But it can’t be, he’s still young.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fiction, intrigue, magic, mystery, survival, thriller, urban-fantasy, witches

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#6

“I encourage readers recovering from a kidney transplant to heed the advice of their medical practitioners.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: chronic-illness, covid, dialysis, good-health, grief, inspiring, personal, wellbeing

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#7

“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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#8

“This book is dedicated to my children, Pi, Coco, and Jay. When your grandkids are old enough to read this book, tell them how much I loved you.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

tags: death, murder, revenge, thriller

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#9

“Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.”
― Dorothy Allison

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#10

“No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace—they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship—they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel. And what does the best of them give us in return?”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

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#11

“I’m glad nothing requires my intervention, because I’m trying hard to maintain my composure. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a woman naked and I don’t think I’ll ever be the same.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

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#12

“like the only hummable tune in a difficult opera.”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist

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#13

“It’s true that AI can mimic the human brain, but it can also outperform us mere humans by discovering complex patterns that no human being could ever process and identify.”
― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

tags: ai, clinic, data, diagnosis, doctors, healthcare, medicine, patient-care, physicians, therapy

181 likes

#14

“At what point does faith become insanity?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, magic, mystery, past, wit

838 likes

#15

“Oh, sorry, love. I was just getting out of the shower when I heard this loud commotion in front of my door.” Jake gave her a sloppy grin. “I didn’t realize there was a dress code when coming to the aid of a beautiful neighbor. I’ll keep it in mind for the next time I come running.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

tags: fight, hardships, humorous-fiction, laugh-out-loud, literary-fiction, new-adult-fiction, reality, rom-com, sadness, uplifting

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#16

“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was farther away. She swung her head around—so was the shore.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: battles, classical-struggles, drama, family-life, hierarchy, naval-battles, passion, philosophical, rebellion

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#17

“Only someone watching him closely like Celena would have noticed his intense preoccupation, and that something in a split second had happened to him. She wondered where he had gone when he should have been listening to the sermon, where his soul had gone went it had left his body.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: drama, fiction, historical-victorian-romance, history, intrigue, literary-romance, love, romance

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#18

“Jack? It’s Margeaux.”
“My sister? Why would my sister be calling me? How did she get my number? Crazy questions blipped through my head. I knew she had married and was living in New Orleans, but we rarely spoke and have never been close by any means”
“Margeaux?”
“I’m calling from the police station. Dad was just brought in and I thought I should let you know.”
“What! Why was he brought in?”
“Jack, he’s been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. He drove himself into New Orleans to Quest Diagnostic for some blood tests and he was waiting to be called. Apparently, they took other people back that had come in after him. He got upset and made a scene. The staff tried to explain that those people all had appointments and he didn’t. He became so abusive, they called security, but before they even got there, Dad knocked down one of the technicians. That’s when they called the police. They came and took him.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

tags: crime-fiction, thriller

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#19

“I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

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#20

“does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?”
― Neal Shusterman

tags: benefit, dangerous, like, people, remember, sick, society, unwholly, well

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#21

“The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down, to drown in their own reflections.”
― Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting

tags: imagery, lyrical, mary-stewart, nine-coaches-waiting, street-lamps

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#22

“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: humanity, life

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#23

“I know forever they will be in my house, the rooms of my mind, I know this and I have accepted this but while I know they will be there I want them dead there. I cannot have them breathing there! I want them in the floirboards of the basement of my soul.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

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#24

“All I hope for is one moment of rational thought and a shot at action before I'm lost to a great saddening madness, pithed at the hands of my own stumbling biology.

[Johnny Truant]”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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