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#1

“All living things are sensitive to their surroundings and convey distress and sorrow as well as joy. Trees are no exception as they are most rooted to mother earth and their limbs carry knowledge we can only aspire to obtain.”
― C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals

tags: adventure, engaging, exciting, fantasy, life, suspense, teen, ya, ya-lit, young-adult

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#2

“Did you, Vance?”
“Did I what?”
“Did you have Hines killed?”
“Now what kind of a question is that?”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

tags: fiction-fantasy, murder-mystery, plot-twist

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#3

“He knew what he was doing – justifying an atrocity. But in war, that’s what always happened. Your red lines – those you swore to defend at all costs when you signed up – shifted, until finally none worth fighting for remained. PTSD wasn’t just about what happened to you; it was about what you did.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

tags: drama, life, suspense, thriller

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#4

“why were the State Department and President Roosevelt so hesitant to express in frank terms how they really felt about Hitler at a time when such expressions clearly could have had a powerful effect on his prestige in the world?”
― Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

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#5

“One cancels the other, and yet without one, the other is incomplete. In the first photograph, standing there in our black robes and scarves, we are as we had been shaped by someone else’s dreams. In the second, we appear as we imagined ourselves. In neither could we feel completely at home.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

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#6

“At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

tags: happiness, willa-cather

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#7

“Fact is, I never knowed a Negro from that day to this but who couldn't lie to themselves about their own evil while pointing out the white man's wrong, and I weren't no exception.”
― James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

tags: african-amerians, blacks, evil, lies, race-relations, whites, wrong

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#8

“In peace one is despoiled by the mercenaries, in war by one's enemies.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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#9

“A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

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#10

“Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

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#11

“Memory builds itself without any clean or objective logic: a dot here, another dot here, and plenty of dark spaces in between. What we know is always evolving, always subdividing. Remember a memory often enough and you can create a new memory, the memory of remembering.”
― Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

tags: memory

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#12

“Stone made the first of an infamous string of accusations. “What are these parents doing that are letting their kids have automatic weapons?” he asked.”
― Dave Cullen, Columbine

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#13

“I love my virginity to the apocalypse.”
― Scott Westerfeld

tags: apocalypse, peeps, scott-westerfeld, virginity

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#14

“Now, whoever has courage and a strong and collected spirit in his breast, let him come forward, lace on the gloves and put up his hands. (5.363-364)”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

tags: boxing, gleasons

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#15

“The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.”
― Ian McEwan, Saturday

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#16

“Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court." (Jon to Alanna)”
― Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

tags: alanna, jon

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#17

“A lot of people—young and old— have not done a very good job of taking care of our country so we can enjoy living in it. Almost everywhere today you see the marks of the stupid and the careless who are ruining what we should all take care of for our own pleasure—and our own good.”
― Munro Leaf, Who Cares? I Do.

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#18

“Eliminate lobbyists. Eliminate polls. It might even eliminate Congress. If we can know the will of the people at any time, without filter, without misinterpretation or bastardization, wouldn’t it eliminate much of Washington?”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

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