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#1

“No need to be afraid. I’m just a Holon.”
“Huh?”
“A Holon. What are you?”
“You mean who am I?” I correct him.
“No, what are you?”
“I’m not a what. I’m a who.”
“How can you be a who if you’re not a what?”
“What?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

tags: alien, brain, middle-grade, science, what, what-are-you, who, who-are-you

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#2

“When you dance with the Africans, unless it is a ritual dance like a wedding or harvest or rain dance, there’s no right or wrong way to dance. There’s only movement. And the more you express your feelings as you move, the better you feel when you’re done…When I dance the African Way, I show my feelings with my body instead of hiding them in my heart. When I dance, I know I’m alive here and now. My body and soul are in harmony.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

tags: autobiography, culture, dance, freedom, harmony, heritage, love, peacefulness, release

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#3

“Mildred adjusted the papers and scribbled some more. When she was finished, she took off her glasses, leaving them to swing from the chain around her neck. She gave the women around the table a pointed look. “Now think hard, ladies, can you come up with anything else?”
― Kirsten Fullmer

tags: cozy-mystery, cozy-romance, small-town-mystery

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#4

“You're not a Quaker, Jeremy. I happen to know you put beer on your cornflakes.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure

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#5

“Jack couldn't help but watch Nonie as she left. She looked to be twenty-nine, thirty at the most, stood maybe five foot-four and was slender. She had shoulder-length, curly, walnut-colored hair and the largest most beautiful blue eyes he'd ever seem Her nose and ears were small in comparison to her full lips, which he'd give anything to kiss.”
― Deborah Leblanc, Toe to Toe

tags: comedy, dark-humor, paranormal, romance, spooky, supernatural, young-adult

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#6

“It seems that along the Rhine front the French broadcast some recordings which the Germans say constituted a personal insult to the Führer. “The French did not realize,” says the DNB with that complete lack of humour which makes the Germans so funny,”
― William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-41

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#7

“You wanted the past changed, Reverend Martin,” she told him. “Even He can’t do that. So that leaves nothing but the future. We work toward the future.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, In My Father's House

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#8

“Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: beautiful

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#9

“Remember, the easy road often becomes hard, and the hard road often becomes easy.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad

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#10

“I've got no reason to live, but a lot of reasons to die...this is just the best one.”
― Ammar Habib, The Legendary Wolf

tags: gritty

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#11

“И что бы с вами ни случилось — ничего не принимайте близко к сердцу. Немногое на свете долго бывает важным.”
― Эрих Мария Ремарк

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#12

“If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

tags: death, immortality, remeberance

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#13

“Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include tooth decay in His divine system of creation? Why in the world did He ever create pain?'
'Pain?' Lieutenant Shiesskopf's wife pounced upon the word victoriously. 'Pain is a warning to us of bodily dangers.'
'And who created the dangers?' Yossarian demanded. 'Why couldn't He have used a doorbell to notify us, or one of His celestial choirs? Or a system of blue-and-red neon tubes right in the middle of each person's forehead?'
'People would certainly look silly walking around with red neon tubes right in the middle of their foreheads.'
'They certainly look beautiful now writhing in agony, don't they?”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#14

“…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

tags: love

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#15

“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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#16

“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:
Are my trousers long enough?
Is my veil in place?
Can my make-up be seen?
Are they going to whip me?

No longer asks herself:
Where is my freedom of thought?
Where is my freedom of speech?
My life, is it liveable?
What's going on in the political prisons?”
― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

tags: freedom, opression

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#17

“I hardly suppose Wagner lost sleep worrying whether he’d hurt someone’s feelings. But then he was a genius.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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#18

“With our beloved prairie voles the female has her ovulation induced by the smell of male urine. It’s a sure sign there’s a male nearby and so her body gets ready for mating. The exact opposite of a human female getting a whiff of urinals in a nightclub and her vagina falling off in disgust”
― Sara Pascoe

tags: sara-pascoe, women-s-humor

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#19

“With the thunderous boom of each firework, Isabela’s heart sank further and further. She loved Papi, and she loved Marco. She could never choose between them.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: ballrooms, betrayal, cultural-identity, defiance, emotionally-complex, family-saga, insular-politics, marriage-dynamics, oppression, resilience

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#20

“Do not get discouraged. Don’t shrug off your dreams because of the setbacks. Aspirations are not like perspiration, they will not evaporate unless you allow it.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: happiness, inspiring, kindness, life-and-living, life-lesson, motivating, optimism, positive, positive-attitude

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#21

“Charlotte had been surrounded by men most of her adult life. Only one attracted her, only one had she fallen in love with – and he turned out to be cruel and broke her heart. But he was dead. She had killed him. He was a Nazi, an SS officer, dashing and charismatic … an evil person.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

tags: corruption, devotion, hidden-motives, literary-suspense, london-fiction, mysterious-past, noir-fiction, resistance-fighters, unreliable-characters, wartime-love-story

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#22

“Nothing can invade our being without our permission. It is energetically impossible. We can be confident in our eternal being of infinite abilities of every kind, limited only by our imagination, emotional spectrum and personal beliefs and perspectives. These are all things that can be resolved, as our conscious awareness greatly expands in understanding and can create experiences in the spectrum of beauty, joy and love.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

tags: consciousness, cosmos, energetics, photons, quantum-energetics, quantum-energy, quantum-theory, science, spirituality, vibrations

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#23

“The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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#24

“We assign a moment to decision, to dignify the process as a timely result of rational and conscious thought. But decisions are made of kneaded feelings; they are more often a lump than a sum. Pazzi”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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#25

“Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

tags: fear, heart, imagination, mind

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#26

“Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity of our universe ?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

tags: brain, explore, middle-grade, science, science-fiction, scientist, the-great-unknown, universe

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#27

“Isn’t it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?”
― Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin

tags: anissa, dignity, empowerment, feminism, freedom, inspiration, life, new-york, reality, strength, women

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#28

“I sometimes wonder why I pushed myself so relentlessly in weight lifting. My motive, I think, was not an uncommon one; I was not the ninety-eight-pound weakling of bodybuilding advertisements, but I was timid, diffident, insecure, submissive. I became strong—very strong—with all my weight lifting but found that this did nothing for my character, which remained exactly the same.”
― Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life

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