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#1

“Some days are better than others, for human optimism has no limits.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

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#2

“Come on, Wind Dancer, it’s time to go. It’ll be just you and me asking for the night’s companionship.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

tags: dark-side, fiction, light-and-dark, love, realms, urban-fantasy, vampire-suspense, war-of-the-worlds

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#3

“Stage Mom Mom swore she never knew what went on behind The Producer’s Green Door.”
― M S M Barkawitz, Feeling Lucky

tags: action, action-thriller, drama, favorites, fiction, mystery, suspense, suspense-thriller, thriller

21 likes

#4

“How could I live without dancing?”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

tags: biographical-novel, deep, experiences, friendship, love, real-life, sadness, self-discovery, separation, true-story

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#5

“I considered myself a Christian. But looking back on it, I guess I was more of a Kluggist. I was klugging my own spirituality. It was years before I would find out how dangerous that was.”
― Randy Loubier, Slow Brewing Tea

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

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#6

“By the end of the four-year term, Americans hold a bifurcated view of Mrs. Trump. Many Republicans, especially women, revere her as elegant, graceful, beautiful and wronged by the press. A pastor in Missouri held up Melania as a wifely model to which other women should aspire — or risk losing their men. At the same time some southern preachers referred to then-Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris as Jezebel, the Bible’s most nefarious woman and archetype of female cunning. There could be no surer sign that the life stories of prominent women affect the lives of private women than when pastors hold them up as positive or negative role models.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationships

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#7

“Vasquez faced off Vince. “We’ll meet in hell for sure.” Vince didn’t blink. “I have a condo there waiting for me. You’re welcome for tea. Now, give the order, Colonel.”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

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

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#8

“See, the things we do, everything—the universe is watching. Good and bad. And that motherfucker is making a list like a goddammed accountant. And, in the end, all the accounts have to balance.”
― J.K. Franko, Tooth for Tooth

tags: accounting, balance, fate, justice, karma

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#9

“Marcus tries to stay calm for the sake of his family.
“I’m not asking. Step out of the damned car!” The officer is becoming unglued.
“I’m getting out, damn you, but, here, let me just show you my—”
“Don’t reach. Stop!”
“I’m getting what you asked for, just going to show you my—”
“Put your hands where I can see them!” The officer snarls.
“Jesus H. Christ, officer. I’m not—”
Thunderous shots ring out, and Marcus slumps away from the dash, back toward the driver’s seat.”
― 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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#10

“When you dance with the Africans, unless it is a ritual dance like a wedding or harvest or rain dance, there’s no right or wrong way to dance. There’s only movement. And the more you express your feelings as you move, the better you feel when you’re done…When I dance the African Way, I show my feelings with my body instead of hiding them in my heart. When I dance, I know I’m alive here and now. My body and soul are in harmony.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

tags: autobiography, culture, dance, freedom, harmony, heritage, love, peacefulness, release

71 likes

#11

“Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#12

“That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: it made people feel better when really horrible things happened, and it offered a repertoire of ceremonies that were used to add a touch of class to such goings-on as shacking up with someone and throwing dirt on a corpse. None of which especially bothered Zula or made her doubt its worthwhileness. Making sad people feel better was a fine thing to do.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde

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#13

“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about : ...”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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#14

“La carencia misma de responsabilidad le producía sentimientos contradictorios: una sensación inusitada de libertad al mismo tiempo que una frustración inexplicable.”
― Jean M. Auel, The Valley of Horses

tags: libertad, responsabilidad

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#15

“Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon?”
― Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon - Acting Edition

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#16

“Above all, we must stick tightly in our cluster, so we do not lose each other. Understand?”
― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

tags: drama, evil, fantastical, fiction, history, honour, magic, magical, powerful

81 likes

#17

“ I'm not the one to forgive you, Lois. You have to forgive yourself, and your father.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

tags: familydrama, forgiveness, guiltandgrace, healingjourney, readerswhofeeldeeply, traumaandhealing

93 likes

#18

“The Green Judges, most of them decidedly miffed, grumbled out one by one, though I got a wink and a thumbsup from Washington.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

tags: literarysatire, magicalrealism, memorable, mythicmodernity, weirdlit, wryhumor

278 likes

#19

“But when people talk about it they call it The Zombie Room.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

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#20

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance

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#21

“Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
            Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit

910 likes

#22

“When I was a cop me and my partner saw plenty of his handiwork. Yeah, we pulled his handiwork out a the water by the docks, we saw it in the bloody alleys, we saw it in cars burnt up on the side of the roads…”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

tags: challenging, corruption, devastation, dramatic, historical, pi, racial-slurs, soldier, threats, war

51 likes

#23

“The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of
colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty,
and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to
make up its mind.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: comingofage, relatablereads, restlesshearts, secondchances, yafantasy, yalit

14 likes

#24

“because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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#25

“Mary turned. All around the bottom was”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

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#26

“When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.”
― Sir Walter Scott

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#27

“Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict—its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself—what's the expression—ah, yes, 'not with a bang, but a whimper,' as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

tags: conflict, history

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#28

“What lives undimmed in Clarissa's mind more than three decades later is a kiss at dusk on a patch of dead grass, and a walk around the pond as mosquitoes droned in the darkening air. There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. Now she knows. That was the moment. There has been no other.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

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#29

“In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket... but enough drops can make any bucket overflow”
― Neal Shusterman, UnDivided

tags: inspirational

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