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  • #1
    “Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: philosophical-musings, reflection
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    Behcet Kaya
    “My bad, Colonel. What do you need?”
    “I want to report a homicide.”
    I raised an eyebrow. “Homicide? Did you kill someone?”
    His eyes narrowed at my poor attempt at levity.
    “Me. I’m the one who was killed.”
    “Colonel, Sir, with all due respect, I really don’t have time for this kind of humor.”
     ”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel
    tags: action, adventure, drama, dramatic, fast-paced, investigation, mystery, thriller
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  • #3
    A.R. Merrydew
    “This book is dedicated to those in life whom I have met and by virtue of those encounters, have helped to shape the content herein.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, From The Pen Of An Aquarian: Love, hope and darker moments
    tags: poem-poetry-poet-poetry-poet, poems, poems-on-letting-go, poems-on-life, poems-on-life-inspirational, poems-on-love, poetry
    101 likes

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  • #4
    K. Ritz
    “Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, humour, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, sorcery
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  • #5
    Robert Fulghum
    “Life is—and we are—byproducts of combustion. Imagination turned to form and finally, memory.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, Uh-oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door
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  • #6
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “He was rather dull, perhaps, but would not such wine make any conversation pleasant?”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray
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  • #7
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: possibility, profundity, thought
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  • #8
    Yann Martel
    “I am magical: I can bleed for five days and not die.”
    ― Yann Martel, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
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  • #9
    Jack London
    “This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.”
    ― Jack London, To Build a Fire
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  • #10
    Graham Greene
    “But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and . . .”
    ― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
    tags: angels, beauty, male-beauty, sin
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  • #11
    Sara Pascoe
    “The smell of green grass was rich and comforting. He felt better already. This is splendid. We can all go for a garbage buffet tonight.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
    tags: animalstories, comfortreads, cozyvibes, funnykidsbooks, humorouschildrensbooks, kidlit, middlegrade, naturelovers, senseofplace
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  • #12
    Ashby Jones
    “
She'd been freed from weakness by summoning the courage and strength to live and to love. She felt the thrill of freedom, freedom to do as she wished and as she was driven.”
    ― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird
    tags: historicalfiction, hopefulfiction, loveaftertrauma, readerswhofeeldeeply, resilience, secondchances, traumaandhealing
    60 likes

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  • #13
    K. Ritz
    “The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, engaging, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery
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  • #14
    “Talk about receiving blessings even through hardship! I once heard a quote that broken crayons still color.”
    ― Octavia Yvonne Webb, Mixed Bloodline: The story of a young biracial boy overcoming racism growing up in the South doing the 1930's Jim Crow Era
    tags: goodreads-quotes, grace, healing-journey, hope, inspirational-reads, overcoming, resilience, spiritual-memoir
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  • #15
    “Such abilities are the true gifts of the spirit, my daughter.”
    ― Candace Lynn Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
    tags: epic-fantasy, fantasy-readers, inner-power, intuition, mind-magic, self-discovery, spiritual-gifts
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  • #16
    “I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: action, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, noir-mystery, nvestigation, thriller
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  • #17
    Todor Bombov
    “The dream of all peoples—a world without weapons, a world without wars—despite any initiatives, no matter whether they are strategic or not, is only a utopia within the contemporary content of the State. Nowadays, the State is the biggest, the most powerful criminal organization of continuous robbery of social labor. The State is a mafia today, in which the basic principle is the “law” omertá—“who’s not mum, is dead!” Now the State is the final phase of the organized criminality. It is “a conspiracy of the rich” (Thomas More), where because of the judicial astrology, “in every situation, powerful rogues know how to save themselves at the expense of the feeble” (Jean-Jacque Rousseau). Until now, the class society represents a power of one family that divided for itself the state as private property!”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: abolition, analysis, class-inequality, dictatorship, division, economic-laws, humanity, myth, political-system, state-property
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  • #18
    Michael G. Kramer
    “Comrades, it is peoples’ power that shall soon become the crucial factor that is safeguarding our independence.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick
    tags: independence, inspiringreads, peoplespower, politicalfiction, powerful, resolution, revolution, rights, vietnamhistory
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  • #19
    Gary Clemenceau
    “The Green Judges, most of them decidedly miffed, grumbled out one by one, though I got a wink and a thumbsup from Washington.”
    ― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity
    tags: literarysatire, magicalrealism, memorable, mythicmodernity, weirdlit, wryhumor
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  • #20
    E.L. Konigsburg
    “Inside me there was a lot of best friendship that no one but Ginger was using.”
    ― E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday
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  • #21
    Mary Norton
    “Human beans are for Borrowers—like bread’s for butter!”
    ― Mary Norton, The Borrowers
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  • #22
    Judith Viorst
    “If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.”
    ― Judith Viorst
    tags: true-love
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  • #23
    Zoltan Andrejkovics
    “The waves of changes propel advancement.”
    ― Zoltan Andrejkovics, The Invisible Game: The Mindset of a Winning Team
    tags: change-your-life, esports, life-lessons, sports
    47 likes

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  • #24
    Emily Dickinson
    “We journey to the day,
    And tell each other how we sang
    To keep the dark away.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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