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    J.K. Franko
    “See, the things we do, everything—the universe is watching. Good and bad. And that motherfucker is making a list like a goddammed accountant. And, in the end, all the accounts have to balance.”
    ― J.K. Franko, Tooth for Tooth
    tags: accounting, balance, fate, justice, karma
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    Robyn Mundell
    “Life is funny that way. Sometimes the dumbest thing you do turns out to be the smartest.”
    ― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker
    tags: brain, middle-grade, science, science-fiction, scientists
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    “Now I am not ordering you to go. If you are successful, you will strike a blow to the confederacy. If you are caught, you will be hanged. If not killed outright. Do you still want to go?" "Yes sir".”
    ― Phillip Urlevich, The Georgia Express: A Tale of the Civil War
    tags: american-civil-war, based-on-real-events, behind-enemy-lines, confederate-army, georgia, high-speed-chase, locomotive, southern-states, train-robbery, union-army
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    Jacob Grimm
    “One day,”
    ― Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Stories
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    Iain Banks
    “Oh dear. I do believe this is self-pity. I am imagining myself dramatically dead, tragically taken from you and even more lamentably forgotten. What dreadful clichés war and social strife reduces us to, and how powerful the effect must be, if even I am so infected. I think I must pull myself together.”
    ― Iain Banks, A Song of Stone
    tags: death, self-pity, war
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    Lois Lowry
    “I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....”
    ― Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
    tags: changes, difficulties, friendship, letting-go, moving-on, relationship, sister
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    Tracy Chevalier
    “You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.”
    ― Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring
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    Sara Pascoe
    “When I'm hung-over I try to imagine being old and look- ing back fondly on now, on this bit I'm currently living, and how in retrospect it might seem adventurous. In the future when I only ever sit in a chair because I'm too gnarled for pleasure or movement I'll remember when I stayed out all night and had life-changing conversations and walked all the way home because I lost my phone.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo
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    Max Nowaz
    “Are you really a reporter?” asked Brown.
“You already asked me that. Come back to Levita, take the pardon.”
 “I doubt I’ll live long enough to get there,” said Brown bitterly.
“I hope you survive. You are a fighter. And we have the antidote for your habit on
Levita. I suggest you take a vacation. There’s nothing much that’s going to happen here.”
With that she left, leaving Brown more confused than ever.
He was a father, he had a son. And, the Levitians had a cure for his drug-addled body.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: contemporary-fiction, intrigue, manipulation, mystery, suspense, thriller
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    Ami Loper
    “Jesus is telling us that redemption is more than having our sins forgiven; it is an intimate relationship He came to restore between us and God. If we are going to live out the first and greatest commandment of loving God completely (Matt. 22:36-37), this is the type of experiential intimacy which ought to be the objective of our lives.”
    ― Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
    tags: bible, christian, faith, god, knowledge, love, prayers, prophetic, spiritual, teachings
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    A.R. Merrydew
    “     ‘The onboard computer just wants to say a few words before we leave.’
         The speakers in the cabin crackled into life. ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to welcome you on-board the presidential shuttle for tonight’s illicit flight, Alfa Bravo Charlie. I would just like to say it’s a pleasure to meet you all and thank you so much for coming here tonight to steal me. To be honest I don’t get out much these days so this is something of a special occasion.’
         ‘It will be for us too if we get caught,’ Semilla said sardonically.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange
    tags: artificial-intelligence, future, inventions, laugh-out-loud, past, present, science, science-adventure, secret, technology
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    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Only someone watching him closely like Celena would have noticed his intense preoccupation, and that something in a split second had happened to him.  She wondered where he had gone when he should have been listening to the sermon, where his soul had gone went it had left his body.”
    ― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
    tags: drama, fiction, historical-victorian-romance, history, intrigue, literary-romance, love, romance
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    Lisa Kaniut Cobb
    “Josh's heart soared as he got a taste of the power and endurance in his elk body.”
    ― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley
    tags: action, animals, conflict, mountains, nature, pain, relationships, tense, violence, ya-fantasy
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    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.”
    ― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
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    Henri Charrière
    “Life is based on comparisons”
    ― Henri Charrière
    tags: life
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    Todd Burpo
    “A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.”
    ― Todd Burpo
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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    Hermann Hesse
    “The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the realization was not really a joyful one. It was hard and had a harsh taste because it implied responsibility and no longer being allowed to be a child; it meant standing on one’s own feet.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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    Ernest J. Gaines
    “The last thing they ever want is to see a black man stand, and think, and show that common humanity that is in us all. It would destroy their myth. They would no longer have the justification for having made us slaves and keeping us in the condition we are in. As long as none of us stand, they're safe. They're safe with me. They're safe with Reverend Ambrose. I don't want them to feel safe with you any more.”
    ― Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
    tags: race-and-racism-in-america
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