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#1

“Miranda's reward to herself, after a chief investigator dubbed her "the Eloise of four-year-old detectives," was to stretch her age. She’d now taken to informing people that she was four- and-a-half-and-three-quarters. She didn't seem to grasp the concept of almost-five.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, murder-mystery, mysterious, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller

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#2

“Flipping through, the first thing she came across was a restaurant menu featuring animals and rodents in a reference to the starvation of residents during the Siege of Paris of 1870-71 − horse soup, dog cutlets, ragout of cat, roast ostrich, fricassee of rats and mice? The French and their obsession with food presentation.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: climatic, drama, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, fiction, intrigue, mystery, tense, unpredictable

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#3

“Exactement," said Vidal. "We surmise the killer limp off with use of a cane. The lights man must have seen the interloper, made to intervene, and was beaten by the cane and then garroted with it by the ropes, making lights to go out."
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― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: adventure, climatic, crime, emotionally-charged, excitement, intrigue, mystery, profound, tense, unpredictable

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#4

“Quite," Detective Vidal pronounced as though he'd learned his English in a British finishing school. "Even Madame Rachel, who sat right beside, could not tell.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: action, crime-story, detective, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, mystery, thriller

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#5

“You know what they say?” Nonna paused, “The character of the Venetian people is like the tide.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: community, historical-fiction, human-nature, italian-history, thought-provoking, venice, wisdom

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#6

“Someday, you will see that you are capable and strong enough to live all on your own. But for now, you needn’t worry. Your Nonna has enough snap in her, and you will stay right here where I can protect you.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: coming-of-age, found-family, heartfelt-fiction, historical-fiction, protection, resilience, women-supporting-women

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#7

“She learned that keeping up and working hard paid dividends inside the Pietà, unavailable to women outside it.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: ambition, coming-of-age, growth, historical-fiction, pieta, resilience, self-determination, women-in-history

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#8

“What broke me was wildness, and wildness my salvation.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: fierce-beauty, healing-through-nature, personal-truth, poetry, soul-recovery, survival, transformation, wildness

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#9

“However far I travel the earth remains the earth, held like a newborn each new day, a silent presence among the stars.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: belonging, cosmic-connection, daily-wonder, earth-and-sky, grounded-spirit, lyrical-reflection, meditative-writing, poetry

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#10

“Quietly I spread like snow 
the silence of my heart, 
and discover this day 
how deeply I belong.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: belonging, gentle-healing, inner-peace, poetry, reflective-verse, self-discovery, silence-of-the-heart, winter-imagery

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#11

“Dropping like rain, I fall into a new year of starless nights, wet gray dawns.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: dawnthoughts, literarypoetry, melancholic, newbeginnings, poetry, reflectivewriting, souljourney, wintermood

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#12

“Death, death it is, their horrid voices croak, as mountain rivers melt in rushing floods.
Yet even as waters boil, deep within the earth armies of the Angel rise, trumpeting symphonies of the apocalypse.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: apocalyptic-imagery, dark-poetry, end-times, flood-and-fire, intenseverse, mythic-writing, poetry, spiritual-vision

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#13

“I’ve always found it curious how a coffin, if placed upright, resembles a doorway.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: dark-symbolism, existential-dread, gothic-atmosphere, late-night-reading, mortality, psychological-horror, psychological-thriller, the-uncanny, thriller, thriller-readers

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#14

“Attention is the rarest currency, and you spent a great deal of yours here. On me.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: attention, late-night-reading, metafiction, power-of-words, psychological, psychological-tension, psychological-thriller, thriller, thriller-readers, unsettling-reads

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#15

“I had the strange thought that from now on Samuel would just be a character in someone else’s story. Not a writer anymore. Just material. I suppose that happens to all of us eventually. Someone else picks up the pen.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: identity, legacy, literary-thriller, metafiction, mortality, narrative-control, quote-of-the-day, reflective-reads, thriller, thrillers-mystery

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#16

“I had walked through a door he’d simply left open. And I’d done it voluntarily, glass of scotch in hand, thinking I was the one in control.” “The world kept rearranging itself while I wasn’t looking.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: illusion-of-control, psychological, psychological-suspense, psychological-tension, psychological-thriller, self-deception, suspense-readers, temptation, thrillers-mystery, vulnerability

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#17

“Every story worth a damn is about getting inside someone else’s skin and living there. Not observing. Not empathizing. Living there. The rest is furniture.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: art-of-storytelling, books-about-writers, identity, immersive-reading, literary-readers, literary-thriller, metafiction, psychological, thriller, writers-who-read

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#18

“Cung went to his section commander Corporal Binh Chien Bui and spoke to him. He said, “Binh, come quickly, something strange is going on!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: asia, documented, history-resource, leaders, political-dictatorship, research, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam

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#19

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US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vulture”. He said, “When the day comes for me to meet my maker and account for my actions, the thing that I would be most proud of is the fact that I fought against and perhaps totally prevented the carrying out of one of the most hare-brained tactical schemes that would have cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of men!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: documented, factual, indochina-war, insightful, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

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#20

“People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, vietnam, war, war-recount

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#21

“King Norodom of Cambodia replied, “Lt. General Kawamura of the Japanese Imperial Army, It is my understanding that you Japanese are granting my people a partial freedom which is always subject to the approval of any laws we make by the Japanese Government in Tokyo!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: determination, difficulty, experience, fighting, inspiring, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty

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#22

“Nguyen said, “Ho and I shall return to our positions on the deck, where we are keeping watches of two people on duty for two hours at a time.”

He then continued, he said, “Cung, from what you have told me, you appear to be a loyal citizen of Vietnam. Yet, you are being hunted by the Vietnamese security organisations!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: action, battlefield, brothers, chaos, conflict, corruption, danger, peace, soldier, technical

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#23

“When I first got put in jail, I went in as a criminal. When I got released from state prison, I came out a hardened crook. You learn from other inmates how to pull off all sorts of illegal activity.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: action, adventure, danger, drama, fast-paced, mob, mystery, romance

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#24

“An airplane hasn’t fallen out of the sky and landed on you, but in the PI world, you face risky business on a daily basis. Don’t let your guard down.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: danger, dark, erotic-romance, heat, love, romance, underworld, violence

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#25

“One never knows what sins lurk below the surface.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: action, adventure-fiction, ambition, drama, fiction, mystery, past, power, women-s-action

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#26

“This adultery crap had gotten monotonous. Natalie craved cold-blooded offenses to solve, use her brain, test her mettle. The grittier the better.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: action, adventure, drama, excitement, fast-paced, full-package, lies, romance, secrets, sex

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#27

“Sometimes, I think that we each inhabit alternative bubbles of reality.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: character-quotes, human-nature, literary-thriller, psychological-insight, thriller

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#28

“A feeling of kinship is forged through years of shared experiences, not by biological accident.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: archaeological-thriller, belonging-quote, character-driven, found-family, human-connection, reflective-reads, thriller, thrillers-mystery

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#29

“The power to destroy life was valued far more than the power to create it, as represented by a mother goddess.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: ancient-religion, archaeological-thriller, feminist-history, goddess-history, history, lost-civilizations, quote, quote-of-the-day

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#30

“Boredom is my friend, and I am loath to part with it. I love my books, and I love the catalog, and I love you. Not necessarily in that order.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: adventure, archaeological-adventure, archaeological-thriller, dry-wit, quote-of-the-day, quotes-to-live-by

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