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    C. Matthew Smith
    “In the years that followed, Tsula would find that she could not recall that walk to the edge or the thrust of her legs into the air. Her clearest memory more than twenty years later is of the long, breathless wait as she fell, seemingly forever, and the water swallowing her at last. When she burst from its surface, unhurt, her mind noisy and electric, she grabbed for Jamie and kissed him hard.”
    ― C. Matthew Smith, Twentymile
    tags: action-thriller, dark, edge-of-the-seat-thriller, investigative, literary-thriller, murder-mystery, suspense-novel, suspenseful, thriller-books, vengeance
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    Max Nowaz
    “You don’t think he’s our man?” asked Adam. It occurred to him that Ramsbottom was not exactly forthcoming with information.
    “I didn’t say that,” Ramsbottom said. “In fact he is behaving very cautiously indeed, which makes me feel very suspicious.”
    “He has probably figured out that you are following him,” said Adam. “One can hardly fail to notice you hanging around all the time.”
    “That may be so,” said Ramsbottom.
    “Can’t you get a disguise or something?” asked Adam. “So he does not recognise you.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
    tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Death rides on all of our shoulders from the day we are born.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow
    tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel
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    Mark M. Bello
    “If he is anti-Muslim, Noah reasoned, then he is probably an anti-Semite and a racist, too. What sites would he migrate to online? Noah logged in and opened Safari. He entered “anti-Semite, racist, anti-Muslim” on the search line and clicked ‘return.’ He was surprised to see how much animosity and bigotry there was in the world. Before his eyes was a smorgasbord of hate.”
    ― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal of Justice
    tags: courtroom-drama, discrimination, first-amendment, immigration, justice, politics, predjudice, religious-bias, terrorist-attack, white-supremacy
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    Barry Kirwan
    “I’m not convinced we can take them out from a distance, Nathan. That’s always been the American solution, by the way. Bigger guns. Nukes. Drone strikes.”
    ― Barry Kirwan, When the children come
    tags: action, drama, intrigue, suspense
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  • #6
    Hank Quense
    “Most books on publishing deal with publishing by itself. Most books on marketing deal with marketing as a stand-alone project. I think this is the wrong approach. Self-publishing and book marketing have to be considered as an integrated project. That is what this book does; it treats publishing and marketing together as a unified project.”
    ― hank quense, How to Self-publish and Market a Book
    tags: self-publishing
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  • #7
    Ayn Rand
    “What is morality, she asked.
    Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price. ”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: morality
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  • #8
    Gary Paulsen
    “I am full of tough hope”
    ― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet
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    Mary Stewart
    “A good house, deep in the woods, with a garden all around it and a river flowing past it. Fruit trees, and flowers planted for the bees. A place to grow my herbs. Silence in winter, and in summer nothing but the birds. Lonely as the grave, and every bit as restful.”
    ― Mary Stewart, Thornyhold
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  • #10
    Elizabeth Kostova
    “History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is. Why should you not use your great mind in service of what is perfectible? I ask you, my friend, to join me of your own accord in my research. If you do so, you will save yourself great anguish, and you will save me considerable trouble. Together we will advance the historian's work beyond anything the world has ever seen. There is no purity like the purity of the sufferings of history. You will have what every historian wants: history will be reality to you. We will wash our minds clean with blood.”
    ― Elizabeth Kostova
    tags: dracula
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    Jon Scieszka
    “The older you get, the more questions you get asked, and the more weary you become of answering the questions and the more elusive the answers--any answer, every answer--seem. --Maureen O'Toople in the short story "Your Question for Author Here”
    ― Jon Scieszka Katie DiCamillo, Funny Business
    tags: aging
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  • #12
    Caleb Carr
    “everything I’d ever learned and held dear required me to be a man of action.”
    ― Caleb Carr, The Alienist
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
    tags: a-moveable-feast, human-nature
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    Gary Chapman
    “..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.”
    ― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages for Singles
    tags: love
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  • #15
    O. Henry
    “We still say ‘the apple of the eye’ when we wish to describe something superlatively precious.”
    ― O. Henry, Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry
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  • #16
    “You're braver than you believe and stronger and smarter than you think.”
    ― Carter Crocker, Disney's Pooh's Grand Adventure The Search for Christopher Robin
    tags: commonly-misattributed-quotes, misattributed-a-a-milne
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    Charles Darwin
    “A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.”
    ― Charles Darwin
    tags: biology, evolution, inquiry, life, science, study
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    Alex Haley
    “He said he wanted to present an alternative; that it might be easier for whites to accept Martin’s proposals after hearing him (Malcolm X).”
    ― Alex Haley
    tags: malcolm-x, martin-luther-king, mlk
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  • #19
    Stephenie Meyer
    “Do I dazzle you?”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: dazzle, edward-cullen, flirtation, sweet-talk
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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    Anthony Doerr
    “The mind craves ease; it encourages the senses to recognize symbols, to gloss. It makes maps of our kitchen drawers and neighborhood streets; it fashions a sort of algebra out of life. And this is useful, even essential - X is the route to work, Y is the heft and feel of a nickel between your fingers. Without habit, the beauty of the world would overwhelm us. We'd pass out every time we saw - actually saw- a flower.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
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    Rick Riordan
    “Safety from what? Who's after me?"
    Oh, nobody much," Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. "Just the Lord of the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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  • #23
    Iain Banks
    “I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.”
    ― Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory
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