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#1

“The mayor stood, his surprise at her interruption apparent by his twitching mustache. “You—you can’t just burst in here. Who are you?”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

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

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#2

“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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#3

“But the outcome was inevitable: she assumed you would not take no for an answer; she could already see your charming smile morph into the grimace of a rabid dog. To”
― Isham Cook, Lust and Philosophy

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#4

“That’s the Little Dipper. Hey, Armpit, what sign are you?” “This is my sign,” Armpit said, and gave him the finger.”
― Louis Sachar, Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Greenlake

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#5

“Now it has been said from ancient times that all women who weep may be divided into three sorts. There are those who lift up their voices and their tears flow and this may be called crying; there are those who utter loud lamentations but whose tears do not flow and this may be called howling; there are those whose tears flow but who utter no sound and this may be called weeping. Of all those women who followed Wang Lung in his coffin, his wives and his sons’ wives and his maid servants and his slaves and his hired mourners, there was only one who wept and it was Pear Blossom.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

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#6

“There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”
― O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

tags: the-gift-of-the-magi

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#7

“Later on after the war was over the women were to find this constantly; the men who had actually been in the thick of battle never opened their mouths about it, refused to join the ex-soldiers’ clubs and leagues, wanted nothing to do with institutions perpetuating the memory of war.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

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#8

“Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.”
― Lisa Genova, Love Anthony

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#9

“The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: commercials, mass-media, media, tv

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#10

“But if you have an opinion, please feel free to offer it to me through the gap in the door of a public restroom.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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#11

“You’re not seriously telling us that LSD is less harmful than alcohol, are you?’ Of course I am!”
― Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

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#12

“But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you.”
― A.A. Milne

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#13

“Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!!”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

tags: gods, possession

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#14

“She was somehow this damaged creature I had fortuitously encountered along my path and now cared about as a result. Granted, I didn't cause her harm, as I did with Icarus, but I somehow began to feel responsible for her welfare.”
― Zack Love, Anissa's Redemption

tags: anissa-julien, anissa-s-redemption, book, college-romance, despair, fear, feelings, life, life-lessons, love, lovers, michael, new-adult-contemporary-romance, new-york-city, philosophy, relationships, romance, syria, the-syrian-virgin, truth, war-romance, wisdom, zack-love

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#15

“I try all things, I achieve what I can.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: moby-dick

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#16

“Forgive me,' said Abbot Zerchi. 'I wasn't getting ready to argue moral theology with you. I was speaking only of this spectacle of mass euthanasia in terms of human motivation. the very existence of the Radiation Disaster Act, and like laws in other countries, is the plainest possible evidence that governments were fully aware of the consequences of another war, but instead of trying to make the crime impossible, they tried to provide in advance for the consequences of the crime. Are the implications of that fact meaningless to you, Doctor?”
― Walter M. Miller Jr.

tags: human-folly, nuclear-war

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#17

“The moments between your milestones are not filler.”
― Nelou Keramati

tags: living-life-to-the-fullest, milestones, moments, time

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#18

“This malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions, with his thoughts, his health, his sleep, his life, even with what he hoped for after his death, was so utterly inseparable from him, that it would have been impossible to eradicate it without almost entirely destroying him; as surgeons say, his love was no longer operable.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

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#19

“The whole bloody world's got a commitment problem. It's the three-minute culture. It's a global attention-span deficit. It's typical
of men to annex a global trend and turn it into a male device to reject women to make themselves
feel clever and us feel stupid. It's nothing but fuckwittage.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

tags: commitment-phobic-men

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#20

“Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.”
― Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

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#21

“If I had kept a journal, I could go back through it and check up on what memory reports plausibly but not necessarily truly. But keeping a journal then would have been like making notes while going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Eventless as our life was, it swept us along. Were we any less a Now Generation that the one that presently claims the title? I wonder. And it may be just as well that I have no diary to remember by. Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn't struck you.”
― Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

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#22

“The sour smell was not the smell of fungus. It was unlit incense, and cold ashes, and unsaid prayers. I”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

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#23

“أكثر ما يثير اندهاشي وتعجبي هو أن لي عقلاً يستطيع أن يأخذني إلى عالمي الخاص”
― Jostein Gaarder, Hello? Is Anybody There?

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#24

“Although I maintain that if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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#25

“A man’s children should have an education. They should get out and see the world and meet people.”
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

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#26

“All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.”
― Willa Cather, Sapphira and the Slave Girl

tags: greek-mythology, men-and-women, southern-women

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#27

“Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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#28

“That’s point number one against Mr.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Quest of the Missing Map

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#29

“He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: books, literature, poetry, words

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