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#1

“Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?”
― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

tags: action, cia, danger, drama, kidnap, nuclear-weapons, pulp-thriller, terrorism, thriller, us-navy

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#2

“But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,” but anyone could see it looked like her.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, evolution, fiction, golden-age, history, immersive, love, love-story, treacherous

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#3

“But she also considered that it ran deeper than that: in order to change the way people think, you have to change how they perceive.”
― Barry Kirwan, Eden's Endgame

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#4

“I found out how little is unbearable.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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#5

“It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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#6

“Thomas Wolfe warned in the title of America’s great novel that ‘You Can’t Go Home Again.’ I enjoyed the book but I never agreed with the title. I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and dragons of home under one’s skin, at the extreme corners of one’s eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors, are mysterious apparitions, who come, go, and do strange unfathomable things in and around the child, the region’s only enfranchised citizen.
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We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: home, inspirational

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#7

“The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves

tags: love, marriage

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#8

“The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant

tags: inspirational

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#9

“The image of the sensual, sleep-laden Naomi made him smile. And wish he’d been lying on the pillow next to her when she’d opened her eyes. Lucky pillow.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: action, adventure, discovery, drama, emotions, fiction, intrigue, mystery, romance

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#10

“You are not the first person to come here, and you will most likely not be the last. Many souls have arrived here in quest of this thing before you and will continue to do so after you. Here, everything revolves in a circle. You must have noticed that some events in your life are also occurring in the lives of others. Or you’re meeting people with the same name again.”
― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

tags: affairs, curiosity, fiction, joy, personal, personal-growth, pride, respect, sexual, transformation

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#11

“You could just fall in love with me, then.” He leaned closer. “Problem solved.”
“You first.” I huffed and moved away, pain seared through my chest—stomping out the warmth that had been so alive a moment before.”
― J. Rose Black, Chasing Headlines

tags: affairs-of-the-heart, american-romance, attraction, compelling, happiness, joy, love, risk, suspense

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#12

“Serving” is assisting your fellow man, the how-to, practical way to thrust your life into the spiritual wall to make the tunnel bigger. Will God suddenly appear? Does washing stacks of pots and pans bring salvation?
Can pulling weeds reclaim your brain? Will mopping the floor make you equal to the richest of men?”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: belief, empathy, equality, god, inner-love, love, self-healing, spiritual, thinking, thought-provoking

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#13

“I have seen so many people try everything—prayer, fasting, accountability—yet still struggle. And then, in one moment of encountering the power of God, they are set free forever.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

tags: darkness, destiny, evil, god, kingdom, powerful, prayer, teachings, warfare, well-being

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#14

“The family discussed some of the things they could do to stop the forest from being cut down. They talked about making flyers and delivering them in the neighbourhood.”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

tags: eco-consciousness, emotional-impact, emotional-intelligence, gratitude, kindness-matters, life-energy, personal-growth, playful-exploration, storytelling, teaching-respect

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#15

“It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently in a given situation. It is true that desires of the moment can blind one’s sight of the future. Revenge is not as sweet as the adage claims. Yet who could pass a chance to taste it? And if the chance were allowed to slip by, would the fool regret his lack of action? ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, fantasy-adventure, fascinating, fiction, humour, intrigue, journal, magic, spiritual

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#16

“Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.”
― Hermann Hesse

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#17

“Every human being needs to know what she's fighting for.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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#18

“No, I don't love Max anymore. But I don't want to give you this broken, empty me. I want you to have me when I'm full, when I can give something back to you. I don't have much to give right now.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

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#19

“Just outside of Greater Los Angeles, in a town called Claremont, are five colleges—Pomona, Pitzer, Scripps, Harvey Mudd, and Claremont Mckenna. At the start of the Great Panic, when everyone else was running, literally, for the hills, three hundred students chose to make a stand. They turned the Women’s College at Scripps into something resembling a medieval city. They got their supplies from the other campuses; their weapons were a mix of landscaping tools and ROTC practice rifles. They planted gardens, dug wells, fortified an already existing wall. While the mountains burned behind them, and the surrounding suburbs descended into violence, those three hundred kids held off ten thousand zombies! Ten thousand, over the course of four months, until the Inland Empire could finally be pacified.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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#20

“Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: green-eyes

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#21

“Existence is illusory and it is eternal.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: absurdism, existentialism

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