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#1

“When it’s over, all the equipment used is destroyed, even your clothing. Once it’s over every operator wipes his cranial hard drive clean of every moment of the mission, and you collectively go into blackout mode.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

tags: action-thriller, crime-thriller, dark, kidnapping, suspense-novel, suspenseful, terroroism-thriller, thriller-books, vengeance

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#2

“Your own setbacks aren’t what they first appear to be; rather than viewing them as failures, view them as learning opportunities that are the building blocks for future preparation.”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

tags: christian, growth, inspirational, inspiring, introspective, memoir, motivating, motivational, personal-development, self-help

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#3

“Killed by our collective blindness. Not a great epitaph.”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

tags: adventure, colonization, cyberpunk, epic, original, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, space, thriller

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#4

“The world is full of magic. You’ve just got to learn how to access it.”
― 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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#5

“Dad, I need to talk to you about something that’s been bothering me for a long time. Remember when you and mom used to have fights and she would leave? I wanted her to stay and when I knew she wasn’t, I wanted to go with her. But, she would say, ‘stay with your father, you’re a boy.’ It’s a feeling of abandonment that I’ve never been able to shake. I had the same feeling when Sarah left me.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

tags: crime-fiction, murder-mystery, thriller

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#6

“Maybe everyone was being watched, and if they were, then an individual should be bold enough to live out the drama of their lives: to strut across the stage like the consummate player whose lines and actions are the upshot of an audience. Let them see what they would.
She texted back: Just tell me where and when . . .”
― Jonathan Epps, Until Morning Comes

tags: 21st-century, adventure, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, manipulation, mystery, redemption, revenge, suspense

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#7

“But I’m not going to as long as I can help it, as long I’m breathing I will not stop the breath of another, Kins or humans or whoever. Words don't make us do what we’re supposed to do. My actions are my own, I don’t care who wrote them. So I’m going along with this journey to find my own path.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two

tags: adventure, drama, dystopian, dystopian-horror, fantasy-novel, fiction, good-vs-evil, supernatural

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#8

“God knows far more about living a life of joy and blessings than we do.”
― Randy Loubier, Slow Brewing Tea

tags: christianity, gods-power, guidance, healing, love, reflection, religion-and-philoshophy, spirtitual-growth

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#9

“A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal.”
― David G. McCullough, Mornings on Horseback

tags: employment, honesty, theft

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#10

“When the truth hurts we always hate the messenger”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

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#11

“judge not that ye be not judged”
― John Grisham, The Last Juror

tags: borrowed-from-bible

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#12

“The more - the merrier.”
― A. A. Milne

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#13

“…in joy he will invariably dance; when he is in love he will dance, for the czardas helps him to explain to the girl he loves exactly what he feels for her. And she understands. One czardas will reveal to a Hungarian village maid the state of her lover’s heart far more clearly than do all the whisperings behind hedges in more civilized lands.”
― Emmuska Orczy, A Bride of the Plains

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#14

“But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.”
― Thomas Keneally

tags: australia, australian-literature, friendship, literature, modernism, nastiness, patrick-white, voss-novel

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#15

“Deliverance is not scary—it is the most beautiful, loving act of Jesus. It is the moment someone finally walks into the freedom that was always meant for them.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

tags: destiny, focus, god, grow, learn, love, peace, spirit, teaching, views

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#16

“Because the beings from that planet are now circling Earth in a ship the size of a small moon, threatening to destroy all human life if we don’t cooperate.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

tags: action, dark, different-worlds, drama, fascinating, literary, love, mysterious, mystery, rules

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#17

“Desperately, I needed a reversal of fortunes. Then suddenly, I knew what I needed to do. So, I stopped at the Northside cemetery.
Mom was buried there. I gave Deya another pass and left her outside the gates of the cemetery. I
wasn’t certain but I didn’t want to mix my perceived notion of Deya’s Voodoo with Mom’s

Ghosts, Dead Dawg, and Haints. Too many demons in the same location didn’t appear to be a smart thing. Once inside,I said what I needed to say, laid a rose, and headed back to retrieve my sweetheart. But I knew Deya. She had a fear of ghouls and hitchhikers hanging out in the graveyard. So wisely, I scanned her person for a Greek cross, miniature doll, or chicken foot in her possession. Fortunately, she passed my inspections. So, I left the graveyard, took the wheel, and got the hell out of that area in a haze.”
― Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift

tags: demons, drama, fear, historical, spells, spirituality, suspense, thrill, voodoo, withcraft

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#18

“What is she looking for? She thought she had found it with Kyle. But maybe she hadn’t. Perhaps she was looking for stability, security, sameness because her growing-up years had seemed so fragmented, and she often felt unsure of how she fit in. Maybe stability isn’t all she is looking for.”
― Dawn Chalker, Lost and Found

tags: drama, love, love-story, page-turner, pain, searching, security, stability, struggles, values

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#19

“Light flashed in her eyes. In fact, it clung to her—flaring around her skin, her hair, her whole body. It was a trick of the eyes, his mind, when adrenaline hit his system. But she glowed. Vivid. Alive. And for a moment, he’d have given anything to be like her.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

tags: compelling, drama, friends, friendship, humorous-fiction, journey, romantic-comedy, romcom, steamy-romance, suspensful

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#20

“The contemplative clinking and methodical chewing are a little weird, but it is proof that souls are housed inside the physical body.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: contemplating, healing, healing-journey, inner-peace, love, peace, self-love, spirit, spirituality

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#21

“On the 16th of Febuary 1312, when Isabella was aged sixteen years, the couple were at their hunting lodge when Edward suddenly took Isabella into his arms and began to kiss her and pay her a lot of attention, slowly and tenderly.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

tags: captivating, facts, fiction, france, historical, king-edward, political-obstacles, power, researched, royalty

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#22

“She peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads, like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the distance.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, drama, fantasy, fiction, iction, paranormal, teen-ya, urban

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#23

“The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess.” The”
― Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

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#24

“Xenophilius Lovegood," he said, extending a hand to Harry. "My daughter and I live over the hill, so kind of the Weasleys to invite us. I think you know my Luna?" he added to Ron.
"Yes" said Ron. "Isn't she with you?"
"She lingered in that charming little garden to say hello to the gnomes, such a glorious infestation! How few wizards realize just how much we can learn from the wise little gnomes — or, to give then their correct names, the Gernumbli gardensi."
"Ours do know a lot of excellent swear words," said Ron, "but I think Fred and George taught them those.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: gnomes

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#25

“My heart is so small
it's almost invisible.
How can You place
such big sorrows in it?
"Look," He answered,
"your eyes are even smaller,
yet they behold the world.”
― Rumi

tags: spirituality

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#26

“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: death, notoriety

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#27

“I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: anne-of-green-gables

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#28

“Until you die .. it's all life.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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