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#1

“Marco had examined every inch of Guayanés Beach, where coconut palms that once grew along the shore in majestic rows lay crisscrossed in the sand like scattered pencils.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: colonialism, cultural-pride, evocative, historical-fiction, loyalty, lush-landscapes, motherhood, political-reform, rebellion, self-discovery

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“The Geneva peace accords said that it recognized the nationality and fundamental rights of the Vietnamese people including their sovereignty, their territory and unity. Due to the Geneva Conference allowing the imperialist combined forces of the Franco-USA coalition, on the one hand to hold South Vietnam under the 17th parallel and allowing the National resistance by the People of Vietnam to hold the north on the other, it stopped the Vietnamese from completely liberating their country. (Vein, 2009)”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: american-army, commandos, defence, freedom, french-army, liberation, nvasion, special-forces, strength, war

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#3

“That noise you are hearing, drowning out the blows of life, is the wind touching the fronds of the thirty or so eighty-foot-tall palm trees encircling the centrally located swimming pool. You have fun thinking this sound might be the Holy Spirit.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: faith, fiction, human-seeking, insightful, passionate, personal-refelction, refelctive, soul-healing, spirituality, thought-provoking

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#4

“Succeeding in life is about having that onetime urgency to go for it.”
― Vernon Davis

tags: dreams, faith, growth, healing, hope, life-journey, self-discovery, success, teaching-learning

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#5

“The teacher pulled out a pile of papers. They were Bennie’s tests and homework assignments. Mrs. Lewis said, “Ma’am, here is the proof that Bennie isn’t up to a fourth grade level. He has an F on several of these assignments. In fact, a zero grade is too high for some of Bennie’s work this last year.”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

tags: bullies, deeper-understanding, dysfunctional-families, family, life-lessons, memoir, raw, schizophrenic, struggle

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#6

“He shoved her aside and forced his sword, to the hilt, straight through James’s torso.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: coat-of-arms, death, fate, hero, honorable, king, race-against-time, save-the-world, scientist, sword

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#7

“Being tall and in a scarlet SIB uniform I looked as incongruous as a sunflower in a cabbage field”
― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

tags: critical-decisions, dangerous-journey, deadly-secrets, explosive-climax, foreign-intrigue, gripping-conclusion, past-catching-up, relentless-thriller, shadowy-world, shocking-revelations

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#8

“Deliverance is not scary—it is the most beautiful, loving act of Jesus. It is the moment someone finally walks into the freedom that was always meant for them.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

tags: destiny, focus, god, grow, learn, love, peace, spirit, teaching, views

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#9

“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: alone, melancholy, reflection

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#10

“Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon. In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on an uninhabited planet.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

tags: unsettling

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#11

“Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear. Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

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#12

“Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

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#13

“around”
― James Herriot, Three James Herriot Classics: Volume 1

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#14

“What I speak of is the real decision as we experience it; and here the movement away from theory and generality is the movement towards truth. All theorizing is flight. We must be ruled by the situation itself and this is unutterably particular. Indeed it is something to which we can never get close enough, however hard we may try as it were to creep under the net.4”
― A.S. Byatt, Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch

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#15

“I want to be a part of life, not forever waiting and looking on at other people.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, Calico Captive

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