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#1

“One day, Remy came across a proposal from Lithgow for a budget increase to re-equip an archer company with newly invented crossbows. Remy modified the requested budget amount by adding two zeroes to it and sent the proposal into Jerado for approval.
The sounds of Jerado’s wooden dentures clattering across the desk was most satisfying to Remy. Soon after, Jerado sent Lithgow a strongly worded notice to leave the archers alone.”
― Hank Quense, The King Who Disappeared

tags: action, adventure, fantasy, fantasy-novel, fun, good-versus-evil, magic, sci-fi, sword-sorcery, wizardry

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#2

“From the scene arrayed before her now, Tsula knows this new body means something entirely different. The tight bunchings of onlookers in hushed conversation. The watery eyes and mouths covered by fingers. This is how people gather when the dead is one of their own.”
― C. Matthew Smith, Twentymile

tags: action-thriller, dark, edge-of-the-seat-thriller, investigative, literary-thriller, murder-mystery, suspense-novel, suspenseful, thriller-books, vengeance

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#3

“Your own setbacks aren’t what they first appear to be; rather than viewing them as failures, view them as learning opportunities that are the building blocks for future preparation.”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

tags: christian, growth, inspirational, inspiring, introspective, memoir, motivating, motivational, personal-development, self-help

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#4

“It has no eyes. Zack, why doesn’t it have any eyes? ”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

tags: adventure, colonization, cyberpunk, epic, original, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, space, thriller

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#5

“There it was, burned into the text box, their code: “Sword of the Spirit.” They’d both attended weekly Bible study at the home of a lay person, and after the session one evening they talked about the expression that ultimately would become their code. They interpreted it to mean ‘the Word of God.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

tags: action-thriller, crime-thriller, dark, kidnapping, suspense-novel, suspenseful, terroroism-thriller, thriller-books, vengeance

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#6

“The heart belonging to the man of my dreams still belongs to a woman who died decades ago.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

tags: action-packed, conflict, darkness, evil, guardians-of-the-realm, strength

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#7

“Wasn't it so often the girl --no matter how young-- who got blamed for having incited her molester with a look?”
― Emma Donoghue, The Wonder

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#8

“A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum

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#9

“This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Harbor

tags: life

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#10

“Jerome Falsoner, aged forty-five, was a bachelor who lived alone in a flat on Cathedral Street, on an income more than sufficient for his comfort. He was a tall man, but of a delicate physique, the result, it may have been, of excessive indulgence on a constitution none too strong in the beginning. He was well-known, at least by sight, to all night-living Baltimoreans, and to those who frequented race-track, gambling-house, and the furtive cockpits that now and then materialize for a few brief hours in the forty miles of country that lie between Baltimore and Washington.”
― Dashiell Hammett

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#11

“But though a Church of England man thinks every species of government equally lawful, he does not think them equally expedient; or for every country indifferently. There”
― Jonathan Swift, Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift

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#12

“Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

tags: character-description, face, faces, hair, personal-appearance, simile

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#13

“love rules without rules”
― Thomas More

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#14

“Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.”
― Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

tags: confidence, immunity

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#15

“Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams. ”
― D.H. Lawrence

tags: reflection

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#16

“Oh, the fun we two have together.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

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#17

“The current demand for marijuana and pornography is deeply revealing. Here are two commodities that Americans publicly abhor, privately adore, and buy in astonishing amounts.”
― Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

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#18

“A workplace desk is like a woman's handbag; it's private and a necessity.”
― Christine M Knight, In and Out of Step

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#19

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: books, literature, lonliness, reading, solitude

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#20

“The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)”
― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

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#21

“for she is my love, and other women are but big bodies of flame. who in the world would have thot of her like that? when most people looked they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. but he saw past the mouth and the eyes. the archetecture of the body, her fleshy masquerade. other boys were happy enuf to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained by the bodys shadow theater but he had to come backstage. he went down into the mines. into the dark, brot up the gold. your new self, a better self. but wat good was it if he was jus gonna leave her behind. his poets lady, his silver lilly. he was a boy who knew things, things that looked one way but proved to be another.”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

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#22

“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: youth

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#23

“With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

tags: quote

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#24

“And therefor, sir,' seyde the Bysshop, 'leve thys opynyon, other ellis I shall curse you with booke, belle and candyll.'

'Do thou thy warste,' seyde Mordred, 'and I defyghe the!”
― Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur

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#25

“It’s hard to believe there are people that don’t read books. There’s so much magic in words and well told stories.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: attitude, choice, education, goodness, inspiration, inspiring, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting

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#26

“John F Kennedy (President Elect) was at the White house in order to confer with his predecessor Dwight Eisenhower. He was told to wait while the President of the United States of America attended to some necessary items. After a time, John was escorted into the Oval Office, and he found himself directly in front of the out-going president. So it was that the conversation between two of the most powerful men on earth began.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: documented, factual, indochina-war, insightful, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

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#27

“But there was one person who he felt would understand. Everyone thought she was a bit strange and might even be a witch. Her name was Alice and she lived down the road in a pretty, but a very ramshackle house. In the summer, her house was covered by so many climbing roses that you could hardly see it. She grew all sorts of fruits and vegetables. She often gave Joey’s family some of her delicious tomatoes, berries, and other vegetables. Still, she was strange, and he was slightly afraid of her. She talked to her plants!”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

tags: conscious-living, empathy, energy-lessons, family-connection, holistic-education, interconnectedness, masaru-emoto, playful-exploration, sustainable-values, water-science

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#28

“You arrogant, insufferable asshole; you scared me to death. If I hadn’t been so afraid that you were already dead, I’d have killed you myself.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: danger, dark, drama, erotica, exciting, fear, fiction, love, romance, violence

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#29

“Death is the ultimate test of faith.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#30

“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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