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#1

“It strikes me that the power or capability of a man in getting rich is in inverse proportion to his reflective powers and in direct proportion to his impudence.”
― Paul Sochaczewski, An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Campfire Conversations with Alfred Russell Wallace

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#2

“These skeletons are not like the ones in the bunker,” Macy said. “These are beautiful and not strange at all. Can we take one down and put it in the car with us? It would be good company. And probably talk to me more than you do.”
― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons

tags: brutal, compassion, destruction, dystopian, horror, imagination, magical, mystery, raw

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#3

“The five Roosevelt children had 17 marriages among them. They struggled to find security in love.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

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#4

“If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, detective, fiction, fiction-novel, murder, realistic, thriller

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#5

“I convinced myself I was fully justified in destroying the world by destroying the Mind Upload Community before it got started, and when that seemed impossible, I conceived the idea of infecting the world’s OIM and going to this Utopia Annette was building in 2585.”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, mystery, past, plot-turns, science, twists, unexpected

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#6

“#metooasachild”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

tags: metooasachild

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#7

“Faith continued, “My uncle brought Aleana to the house last autumn, September I think. She didn’t stay long, but she was nice, my mother and I liked her. My mother, Lachlan’s sister, and I both work for my uncle, looking after the house. You must be her friend Raimund. She talked about you and told me to look out for you. She was certain you would come to find her.”
― Robert Reid, The Thief

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#8

“It became visible as a firefly in the dark that the political climate was swiftly getting more and more oppressive.”
― Rafael Polo, Growing Up American

tags: beliefs, courage, emotional, honest, inspiring, naval-officer, noble, novel, truth

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#9

“If you are to become an effective gift giver, you may have to change your attitude about money.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

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#10

“Who doubts that there may be great goodness, and great happiness, and great affection under the absolute government of a good man? Meanwhile, laws and institutions require to be adapted, not to good men, but to bad.”
― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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#11

“Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring with a long-drawn note the solitude that pressed it on every side, but it received at once so unanimous an answer, so powerful a repercussion of silence and of immobility, that one felt it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

tags: bird, birdsong, passage-of-time, silence, solitude

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#12

“I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?”
― Katherine Paterson

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#13

“Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

tags: faith, iconoclasm, individualism, liberty, nonconformity, originality, salvation, tradition

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#14

“He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his palm, thinking of all mysteries the world contained: layers of stone, concealed beneath the flesh of earth and grass; these dull rocks, with their glimmering hidden hearts.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

tags: hearts, hidden, mysteries

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#15

“I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, noir-mystery, nvestigation, thriller

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#16

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller

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#17

“Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: editing, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing

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#18

“Someone cared how this looked. Someone took time.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: Killer

tags: creepycalm, crime, crimefiction, forensicsvibe, gripping, intense, investigation, psychologicalthriller, suspense

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#19

“Mary moved down to join the gathered actors, but little was said beyond questioning whispers. This was, after all, a morgue.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: drama, emotional, fantasy, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, supernatural-thriller, thriller

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#20

“Above all, we must stick tightly in our cluster, so we do not lose each other. Understand?”
― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

tags: drama, evil, fantastical, fiction, history, honour, magic, magical, powerful

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#21

“Wigmore turned towards the window. A column of armoured vehicles was making its way down the Mall towards Buckingham Palace. As he watched, he cursed himself for not remaining at the hotel. He looked at Merlin. ‘Very well. Go ahead with your bloody questions.”
― Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer

tags: determination, difficulty, experience, fighting, grit, inspiring, military, real-life, true-story, uncertainty

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#22

“Something was very wrong, somewhere, and if I didn’t get away soon, I feared it would be too late: I’d have no choice but to join them.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

tags: foreboding, pageturner, stakes, surrealnoir, tension, thrilleradjacent

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#23

“Guilt often resembles shadows, playing games in the dark.”
― H. Meadow Hopewell, Rage Against the Machine

tags: action, ai, betrayal, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, thriller

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#24

“We have art,’ Nietzsche said, ‘so that we shall not be destroyed by the truth.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero

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#25

“[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

tags: civilization, exploitation, philosophy

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#26

“Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

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#27

“she had a cloth in her hands. She said, “Frankie hungry?”
― Jane Smiley, Some Luck

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#28

“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

tags: blue, night, night-sky, painted, sky, strokes

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