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    Susan Rowland
    “After wriggling over multiple keys, Anna shut the computer as if locking away an explosive device.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders
    tags: modern-gothic, mystery-thriller, page-turner-moment, suspense-vibes, tech-and-tension, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery
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    “Professionals were different from others; they rose above the so-called morals of the marketplace and earned the trust of those they served”
    ― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life
    tags: career-values, integrity, leadership, legal-memoir, professional-ethics, service, trust
    50 likes

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    Rich DiSilvio
    “And who knows how many more Mozarts and Caravaggios have existed over time who will never see the light?”
    ― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
    tags: art-mystery, artists-perspective, book-quotes, creative-life, for-creators, hidden-genius, inspiration, legacy-themes, reflective-reads
    64 likes

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    “Blood began to flow, at first cautiously, as if embarrassed by its appearance; a few thin red lines exploring the gravitational trajectory of its new terrain. Now it flowed faster, steadily staining her pale flesh a horrific red.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: blood, descriptive-prose, horror
    307 likes

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    Charles Dowding
    “No dig saves time and keeps it simple, so that you can continue cropping all year without using synthetic feeds or poisons.”
    ― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
    tags: advice, allotments, fruits, helpful, herbs, informative, organic, plants, tips, vegetables
    95 likes

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    Chad Boudreaux
    “He had always been so careful, never revealed his true identity. But somehow, they’d fingered him, and his life had changed forever—for the worst. He couldn’t help but think that some­one in the Central Intelligence Agency had turned on him. One of his own.”
    ― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
    tags: determination, fast-moving, history, intrigue, legal-thriller, political, spy, suspense, terror, terrorism
    86 likes

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  • #7
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
    ― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht
    tags: bookish-thoughts, classic-vibes, desire-and-devotion, goodreads-quotes, love-quotes, mind-over-matter, romance
    140 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
    tags: circumstances, events, mercy
    125 likes

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    Bernhard Schlink
    “Ուրանալը դավաճանության ամենաանտեսանելի տարբերակն է։ Արտաքնապես չի երևում՝ արդյոք ուրանում է մարդ ինչ-որ բան, թե, որոշ բաներ հաշվի առնելով, միայն թաքցնում է, որ խուսափի տհաճություններից և անախորժություններից։ Բայց նա, ով չի խոստովանում, դա հստակ գիտի։”
    ― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
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    Fredrik Backman
    “It’s hard to care about people. Exhausting, in fact, because empathy is a complicated thing. It requires us to accept that everyone else’s lives are also going on the whole time. We have no pause button for when everything gets too much for us to deal with, but then neither does anyone else.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You
    175 likes

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  • #11
    Ovid
    “Omnia mutantur; nihil interit”
    ― Ovid
    tags: change, death, heartbreak, latin, life, loss, loss-of-innocence, lost-love
    28 likes



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