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#1

“That evening Vaselik stood at his window watching Leah leave, her baby swaddled in the shaw tied over her shoulder. Leah looked like an apparition from another world.”
― Beverly Magid, Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle

tags: family-life, fiction-novel, herritage, historical, history, insight, mystery, romance, struggles, understanding

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#2

“Though civil discourse may be especially challenging to facilitate during fractured times, the process itself has stood the test of time for centuries.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

tags: break-down-barriers, empowering, explore, failures, identity, personal-growth, reflection, social-media, societal-expectations, successes

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#3

“We see the pain and the misery around the world and what the demonic kingdom and the devil and demons have done to mankind.”
― John Ramirez, Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms

tags: belief, biography, freedom, historical, hope, joy, love, ministry, prayer

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#4

“There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor; the servant is free from his master.”
― Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself

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#5

“Óóó. É sempre bom abandonar alguém que diz que gostaria de ver você de novo, porque inevitavelmente chegaria o dia em que você ia ter que abandonar essa pessoa porque ela não quer ver você de novo.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

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#6

“How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! How short his time! Consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then, that nature’s productions should be far “truer” in character than man’s productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship?”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

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#7

“I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

tags: love, sassiness

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#8

“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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#9

“Every cold case is someone’s failure. And while every failure has many illegitimate parents, usually, one person gets stuck with the kid. Scholz was this ugly baby’s mother. And mommas can be very temperamental about their babies, especially the ugly ones.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

tags: crime, death, fascinating, intrigue, law, murder, revenge, suspicious, tragedy

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#10

“All she could think of as she turned the key was, they were real. Jabberwockys and Bandersnatches and all the fucking Snarks. Boojums for sure. Maybe she had entered the Twilight Zone, but this shit was as real as real gets.”
― William Kely McClung, LOOP

tags: ai, conspiracy, dark, deep, drama, fiction, horror, nail-biting, paranoia, violent

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#11

“Sometimes they converge.
The field is fabricated to bring
two forces into conflict quickly
making them one: killing.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

tags: adventure, ai, artificial-intelligence, drama, fantasy, fiction, sci-fi, science-fiction, thrilling

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#12

“ In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, fictional, horror, thriller

1460 likes

#13

“The skies were filled with an unreal fire; blue, burnt with amber, red, orange and yellow. This fire was no natural thing. It clawed across the sky, and below it all life shivered and retreated. The land lay scorched, the mountains and glens trembling.
The man stood pale in the false light, a statue, watching. Then he moved, shaking off the stillness, and looked towards the power that shook the world. His clenched fist opened and clean white light leapt to the sky. A huge concussion rocked the mountains. All light was quenched. The sky turned black, then clear and blue. A distant rainbow promised that all was well and God still cared for this lost land.
Alastair Munro fell back, the soft heather a safety net, all power gone, all anger lost. Angus Ferguson was beside him as ever, a reassuring voice, a reminder of why Munro was there, why he must go on, why this was his destiny”
― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

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

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#14

“Honest self-reflection is true self-reflection.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

tags: connection, empathy, experience, personal, reflections, social-commentary, thought, young-generation

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#15

“The final sound of the rifle shot bounced around the lake.”
― 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

347 likes

#16

“When Dani was about 1,000 feet above the ground, her direction changed from vertical to horizontal. She sped east at high speed. She estimated her speed to be many hundreds of kilometers per hour. As she thought about it, if she was going to make this trip in one hour, her speed would have to be about the speed of a jet airline. Yet she felt no wind, nor cold, whatsoever.”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain

tags: adventure, compelling, complex, fiction, metaphysical, romance, sci-fi, science, science-fiction, time-travel

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#17

“لا أحد يحب العزلة. أنا فقط أكره الخيبة”
― هاروكي موراكامي, Norwegian Wood

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#18

“he could never understand the enjoyment some people got from hurting others. And that, he told Anshel, applied to chickens too.”
― John Boyne, The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

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#19

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

tags: nico

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#20

“cash a forged U.S. Treasury check for $37.50 in Ralph’s, a Los Angeles supermarket. According to the arresting officers, Manson told them he had stolen the check from a mailbox. Two more”
― Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter

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#21

“So...Now that we got that over with, let's get back to love at first sight, Evan said.
Not infatuation at first sight...Love. With a capital L, he clarified.
Love? Heeb asked, playfully pretending not to know the concept.
Yeah. The real thing. The conviction that if you had this one woman, all other women would become irrelevant. You'd never again be unhappy And you'd give up anything to have her and keep her.
You've experienced that?
Only once. And I haven't stopped thinking about it ever since.
Tell me more.
Sometimes I think that I still chase women just to forget about her. Because I know I can never have her. But I can't seem to forget about her, no matter what girl I'm chasing...No one can possibly compare....
Who is she?
Delilah, Evan said wistfully.
Delilah?, asked Heeb, intrigued
Delilah Nakova, Evan replied, with a hint of awe and reverence in his voice.”
― Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

tags: comedy, evan-cheson, funny, heeb, hilarious, men, new-york-city, romance

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#22

“All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

tags: ecology, interdependence, worth

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