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    Susan Rowland
    “Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long in prison.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, trauma, unpredictable
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    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “Padre Crittle: … we heard on a radio jettisoned by one of the forestry men, the broadcast of Sir Reginald Dormal-Smith, the Governor of Burma. Speaking from Delhi he told the world just how well everything had been organized and how magnificently everyone had stuck to their posts. We who were in the middle of the chaos were “not amused” and loud were the jeers with which his speech was greeted: officers and civilians alike united in making caustic comments on British propaganda …”
    ― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942
    tags: dark, deception, fast-paced, fiction, fight, history, insecurity, survival, war
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    “Jane turned toward the source, following the shift in
    energy like a current. At the top of the stone steps stood
    a man in light summer clothes: a pale blue shirt, neatly
    pressed trousers, polished loafers. He looked every inch
    the old-money aristocrat. Relaxed posture. Clean-shaven
    face. But no one smiled.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: Secrets
    tags: climatic, emotionally-charged, humour, low-self-esteem, profound, relationships, sorrow, tense, toxic, unpredictable
    48 likes

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    “He turned and saw Becky, crying in the doorway of her house. What was he doing here? Turning back he saw flashing blue lights at the end of the road, and realised the ringing in his ears was the sound of approaching sirens.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: impending-doom, reality-check, realization
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    Yarro Rai
    “Do not remove the blood from pages just add a punctation.”
    ― Yarro Rai, Light and Shadow
    tags: authors-on-writing, authorship, meaning-of-life, philosophy, trauma-quotes, writers-on-writing, writing-quotes
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
    tags: cooking, friends, happiness, husband, inspirational, life, marriage, mikhail-bulgakov, misery, russian-literature, the-master-and-margarita, tragedy-of-life, wealth, woman
    96 likes

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    Toni Morrison
    “Correct what you can; learn from what you can’t.”
    ― Toni Morrison, God Help the Child
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
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    Lynne Truss
    “Eating flaming ice cream at a time like this!”
    ― Lynne Truss, A Shot in the Dark: 'a sheer delight' DAILY MAIL
    tags: constable-twitten-mysteries, crime, humour, seaside
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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    Dean Koontz
    “In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.”
    ― Dean Koontz, Dragon Tears
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