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#1

“You piece of shit, you need a wife; a woman’s touch in your life.’ But who would marry someone like me? Being a PI isn’t exactly the best profession to be in to attract a wife. I’ve read about too many investigators and policemen who end up divorced and I certainly fall into that category.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

tags: crime-fiction

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#2

“Stopping in and of itself is not enough, and if that is all you focus on, then you run the risk of becoming overly self-critical and inadequate. What do you want to start doing?”
― 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

“You don’t think he’s our man?” asked Adam. It occurred to him that Ramsbottom was not exactly forthcoming with information.
“I didn’t say that,” Ramsbottom said. “In fact he is behaving very cautiously indeed, which makes me feel very suspicious.”
“He has probably figured out that you are following him,” said Adam. “One can hardly fail to notice you hanging around all the time.”
“That may be so,” said Ramsbottom.
“Can’t you get a disguise or something?” asked Adam. “So he does not recognise you.”
― 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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#4

“Outlier complacency' is a heuristic that allows a person to enjoy the thrill of danger associated with the possible negative outcome of an activity or event because they take comfort in the reality that the likelihood of an actual negative outcome is statistically low.”
― J.K. Franko

tags: blog-quotes, complacency, outlier-complacency, outliers

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#5

“I sat in my brown-belted gi at the painted metal table outside of Einstein’s and Peet’s with Mr. Ho, my Kenpo Karate instructor in his black-belted gi, and my bronze, canine psychologist, wearing his/her Lacoste eyeglasses.”
― M S M Barkawitz, Feeling Lucky

tags: 21st-century, crime-thriller, death, fiction, intrigue, murder, mystery-thriller, suffering, thriller-novels

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#6

“Even given the ability of black clothing to trick the eye into believing the wearer is slimmer than he truly is, Mario still appeared to be a rolling tube of sausage with an immense bulge in the middle regions of his ill-tended anatomy. His skull was similarly immense, though not likely because it housed a large cranium. The only hair on his head was the oily curl of black hairs that circled the skull about the height of mid-ear. His eyebrows were ponderous, great furry awnings over the eyelids.”
― 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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#7

“The Profumo Affair in 1963 profoundly altered British society. It gave lie to the belief that those born into the ruling class were inherently superior and destined to lead.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

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#8

“Peter’s Diary Entry: But my eyes were opened when I saw a mother who loved her child so much that she would grovel at the feet of a man she had never met [who] … compared her to a common dog. She was willing to do all that just to save her little girl. In her selfless humility, in her willingness to swallow every ounce of pride for the sake of love, I saw a strength and power like I had never seen before. Light poured from her as she looked up at Jesus while slumping on the ground, and her face shone like the sun …”
― Spencer C Demetros, The Bible: Enter Here: Bringing God's Word to Life for Today's Teens

tags: biblical-message, book-of-god, christian, christianity, faith, find-god, humour, love, teens, young-adult

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#9

“How can I be friendly to someone who clearly wants no friends?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal High

tags: bullying, courtroom-drama, crime-fiction, dramatic, emotional, gun-control, psychological, school-shooting, second-amendment

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#10

“I have been a fool, and a fool’s mistakes can often be costly. I never look back to see him again in my room. Mentally he is dead to me and I won’t allow the words of a dead man to hurt me.”
― Crystal Raven, Virtual Mirrors: First Journal

tags: compelling, empowerment, engrossing, erotica, erotica-romance, fantasy, futuristic-romance, romance, science-fiction-romance, sexy

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#11

“It was a knockout blow — a punch so overwhelming that I didn't get back on my feet for fourteen years.”
― Henri Charrière, Papillon

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#12

“They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now.”
― Italo Calvino

tags: lovers

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#13

“He almost weren’t sensible in his excitement. He was joyful. It ain’t a clean proposition when you decides to mount thirteen fellers and declare a war on something rather than somebody. It occurred to me then he might be slippin’ and I ought to maybe take my leave when we got back home before he got too deep into whatever foolishness he planned next, for he didn’t seem right. But in them days I didn’t linger on any subject so long as I was shoving eggs, fried okra, and boiled partridge down my throat. Besides, the Old Man had more bad luck than any man I ever knowed, and that can’t help but to make a person likable and interesting to be around.”
― James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

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#14

“เราไม่ควรหัวเราะความฝันของคนอื่น
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ชีวิตไม่มีอะไรง่าย แต่ก็ไม่มีเหตุผลที่จะยอมแพ้ ถ้านายตั้งใจทำอะไรจริงจัง นายจะประหลาดใจเมื่อพบว่าตัวเองประสบความสำเร็จ
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และที่สำคัญ คนเราเกิดหนเดียว ก็ควรใช้ชีวิตให้คุ้มค่าที่สุด”
― Louis Sachar , Holes

tags: holes-louissachar

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#15

“Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.”
― Milan Kundera, Encounter

tags: friendship, loyalty, virtue

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#16

“his throat, but his voice remained”
― Victoria Dougherty, The Bone Church

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#17

“But I can’t kill anyone,” said Jonathan. “You know that, Orvar.”
“Not even if it’s a question of your own life?” said Orvar.
“No, not even then,” said Jonathan.
Orvar couldn’t understand that, and neither could Mathias.
“If everyone were like you,” said Orvar, “then evil would reign forever.”
But then I said that if everyone were like Jonathan, there wouldn’t be any evil.”
― Astrid Lindgren, The Brothers Lionheart

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#18

“We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

tags: accomplishments, attainments, broken, brokenness, failures, life, life-and-living, life-experience, life-lesson, life-lessons, looking-back, mistakes, mistakes-we-make, reflecting, reflection, reflection-on-life

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#19

“Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another. ”
― Herman Melville, Mardi and a Voyage Thither

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#20

“You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live... I think there are many among you who would be glad to release the world from captivity... This is what prevents them: They're unable to find the bars of the cage.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

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#21

“An eye for an eye....we are all blind”
― Dalai Lama XIV, How to See Yourself As You Really Are

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#22

“Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

tags: edward-cullen-quote

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#23

“[I]f [we] believe in [ourselves], [we] can accomplish anything.”
― Greg Mortenson

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#24

“I want you to start a brand-new section in your notebooks and call it Mr. Browne’s Precepts.” He kept talking as we did what he was telling us to do. “Put today’s date at the top of the first page. And from now on, at the beginning of every month, I’m going to write a new Mr. Browne precept on the chalkboard and you’re going to write it down in your notebook. Then we’re going to discuss that precept and what it means. And at the end of the month, you’re going to write an essay about it, about what it means to you. So by the end of the year, you’ll all have your own list of precepts to take away with you.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

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#25

“Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
― Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#26

“The meeting would be safe as a wedding.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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#27

“As if pulled by my growing sense of beauty, I then felt myself expand at the emotional level into a profound feeling of love and Connection with everything around me. Something in the area of my heart burst outward, and I knew without a doubt that I was now home and cared for, and absolutely---I couldn't believe it---Protected”
― James Redfield, The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision

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#28

“Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our trust in something other than God to redeem us. In so doing, we die to our broken natures in exchange for His perfect nature, and find unification with Him that will allow God to see us as one.”
― Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What

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#29

“Sunny, a silver boy of nine, daydreams of rescuing two princesses: “The princesses’ savior was a gallant knight. No! A prince! The valiant prince was surprisingly young. And silvered.”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

tags: adventure, coming-of-age, fiction, love, mystery, sci-fi, space, space-opera, teen-ya, wizardry

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#30

“Girls don’t like being called cute or adorable, so I guess we’re even,” Remy said and winked at Logan.”
― Hope Worthington, Shifting Moon: Shifting Moon Saga, Book 1

tags: adventure, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fascinating, fiction, historical-fantasy, intrigue, literary-fiction-authors, magic, spiritual

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