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#1

“As the taxi entered the intersection, the two drivers in the attorney general’s entourage slammed on the brakes. Both Suburbans fishtailed out of control. Ducking in the back seat, Blake could smell the burning rubber from tires skidding on the asphalt and hear the pedestrians screaming and car horns sounding off in rebuke.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: clandestine, counterterrorism, drama, justice, legal, novel, plotting, suspense, target

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#2

“Για να είναι κανείς ανθρώπινος, πρέπει να συναναστρέφεται με ανθρώπους.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

tags: άνθρωπος, ανθρώπινος, συναναστροφή

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#3

“But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, murder, psychological, suspense, thriller

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#4

“I knew I rode a rugged crest of turmoil that might crash on the rocky shore of irrational behavior.”
― 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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#5

“Why is your species so dissatisfied?”
“How so?”
“Humans are individuals, quite social in nature. You strive to
become more than yourselves using Silicon reconstructions in your
bodies and filaments in your brains connecting you, unnaturally, to
the NET.”
“Our bodies are mortal. We employ silicon and alloys to extend
our bodies’ existence.”
“You appear to be attempting the same strategy with your brains’
architectures.”
“By using the NET? Is that what you mean?”
“You will never accomplish this. You must know it.”
“Surely you can understand that as we are now, we have what we
consider a limited lifespan, and, it seems, so does this planet. When
the inevitable happens, we will not be able to travel any substantial
distance in space. We cannot escape our dying planet. Humanity will
cease to exist if we fail. We face our ultimate existential crisis as a species.
Our most basic instinct is the survival of our species, so you see
we must try. It is in our nature. It is evolution or elimination.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

tags: ai, dystopian, fast-paced, future, gripping, human-evolution, literary-fiction, mission, mystery, thrilling

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#6

“When a little black kid disappears and the media ignores it, so does the public. I know you know this. Not only that but how much media coverage a case gets has a direct relationship to how much manpower the brass assigns to solving that case. It also impacts whether or not the feds get involved. I know you know this too, dammit . . .”
“. . . Lobby her on the other case at the same time, knock yourself out, but grant her an interview on Gilbert. Is that understood?”
“Loud and clear, boss. After all, we can’t let a little thing like institutional racism get in our way, now, can we?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

tags: blacklivesmatter, civil-rights, fear, inequality, police-brutality, race, racial-prejudice, racial-profiling, racism-in-america, social-justice

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#7

“She was overwhelmed with a premonition. Deja vu but from the future, looking back to this moment looking forward.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: brutal, danger, destruction, graphic, horror, mystery, raw

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#8

“Emily kept telling herself this was inevitable, that it was why she’d come to Ireland: to see what her dreams led to. But seeing the man caused goosebumps to rise up on her skin, as if she were seeing a ghost. Her extremities began to tingle, and she felt the blood draining from her face.”
― Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

tags: adventure, courage, curiosity, drama, dreams, emotions, fiction, intrigue, reality, romance

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#9

“Steering the most powerful nation on earth through a perilous time of history is not a job for an old statesman.”
― Guy Morris, The Last Ark: Lost Secrets of Qumran

tags: betrayal, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, suspense, thriller

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#10

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

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#11

“God’s mercy and grace over y circumstances propelled my faith and caused me to experience significant spiritual growth.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: covid, dialysis, eye-opening, good-health, grief, inspiring, personal, transformation, wellbeing

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#12

“For two years the battles raged across the lands, one side fighting for conquest, the other for freedom. Othium-powered weapons wreaked havoc on defending armies. The red fire was hard to resist, but the white light was stronger. Gradually the tide turned and the freedom fighters regained control of their lands and their cities. The stage was set for the final battle.
The opposing forces met outside the Ackar city of Erbea in 1302 and the forces of good won the day. The alchemist escaped and was about to take his revenge at a wedding ceremony when he was bound by the white light. All that remained was his heart, or maybe his soul, encapsulated in a piece of red rock.
Dewar the Third succeeded his father and the new king promised a time of peace and prosperity. History would call him the Peacemaker.
Now, two hundred years on, a new Emperor seeks to rule the world, while an illegitimate son sets out on a path towards revenge and a thief begins to learn his trade. It is time for the alchemist to return.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

tags: action, drama, exciting, fast-paced, fiction, honour, military, powerful, revenge, war

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#13

“The war is over. Black people got rights now, just like us white folk. Besides…” he tapped his chest. “It’s what in here that counts.”
― Donald Montano, Drink Deep from the Well of Good Intentions

tags: i-don-t-want-to-go-there-again

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#14

“to be useful, to be pleasant with our playmates, respectful to superiors, just to all, black or white, good to the poor not showing pride or selfishness but kindness and good will . . . and to see to it that we looked to our own, more than to others’ faults.”
― David McCullough, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

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#15

“We are attacked a great deal because of what we are. But we are attacked much, much more because we show to each nation of the Americas what it's possible to be.”
― Che Guevara

tags: latin-america, politics, socialism

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#16

“Realise, as the long hot days freakishly repeat themselves, one after the other, that whatever I am doing I really think I ought to be doing something else.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

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#17

“Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#18

“poets are like baseball pitchers. both have their moments. the intervals are the tough things.”
― robert frost

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#19

“If God had let me come at once, as I prayed, then everything would have been different, I should only have had a little bread to bring to grandmother, and I should not have been able to read, which is such a comfort to her; but God has arranged it all so much better than I knew how to; everything has happened just as the other grandmother said it would”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

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#20

“So Admiral, the marshal tells me your trip to Paris was a success.” Jean Louis Xavier François Darlan, admiral of France and the senior minister in Marshal Philippe Pétain’s Vichy government, stroked his cheek. “Yes, all went well as planned, Pierre, although little has been finalised as yet.”
Pierre Laval, former prime minister of France and, until recently, vice-president of Vichy France’s Cabinet of Ministers, chuckled and patted his companion on the knee. “The marshal mentioned no qualifications. He told me you had got everything he wanted from the Germans.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

tags: commandos, courage, defence, freedom, french-army, naval, ptsd, special-forces, strength, war

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#21

“This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, engaging, exciting, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery

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#22

“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.
”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

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

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#23

“Blood began to flow, at first cautiously, as if embarrassed by its appearance; a few thin red lines exploring the gravitational trajectory of its new terrain. Now it flowed faster, steadily staining her pale flesh a horrific red.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: blood, descriptive-prose, horror

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#24

“The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook.”
― 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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#25

“The new dam, of course, will improve things. If ever filled it will back water to within sight of the Bridge, transforming what was formerly an adventure into a routine motorboat excursion. Those who see it then will not understand that half the beauty of Rainbow Bridge lay in its remoteness, its relative difficulty of access, and in the wilderness surrounding it, of which it was an integral part. When these aspects are removed the Bridge will be no more than an isolated geological oddity, an extension of that museumlike diorama to which industrial tourism tends to reduce the natural world.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

tags: industrial-tourism, wilderness

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#26

“She told how the fear had slipped away through the year, 'slipped away silently and secretly', and how we mustn't be afraid to try new things.”
― Sharon Creech, Bloomability

tags: fearlessness

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#27

“أن النساء يفكرن بالمعنى الخفي للأسئلة أكثر من تفكيرهن بالأسئلة ذاتها”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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#28

“На този свят няма нито щастие, нито нещастие, има само сравняване между едно състояние и друго. Нищо повече. Само който е изпитал безгранична злочестина, може да изпита безгранично щастие. Човек трябва да е пожелал да умре, за да разбере колко хубав е животът.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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#29

“Rigidity or inflexibility can be the result of a previous history of abuse or trauma, or of an upbringing that offered a child no permission to experiment or to deviate from the family norms. Flexibility can come from the freedom of having been allowed to make one’s own choices as one was growing up.”
― Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

tags: childhood-trauma, flexibility

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#30

“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe.
If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand.
If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.”
― Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama

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