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#1

“ 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

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#2

“And what the sharp old medic suggested to the Pentagon sent shivers down their spines and set the alarm bells ringing all the way to the White House”
― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

tags: action-packed, bombs, danger, fast-paced, fiction, kidnapping, pulp-thriller, sea, terrorism, thriller

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#3

“He knew what he was doing – justifying an atrocity. But in war, that’s what always happened. Your red lines – those you swore to defend at all costs when you signed up – shifted, until finally none worth fighting for remained. PTSD wasn’t just about what happened to you; it was about what you did.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

tags: drama, life, suspense, thriller

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#4

“You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled, what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and—well, we iron things out together, that's all.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

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#5

“this Constitution”
― Founding Fathers, The United States Constitution

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#6

“That was the trick- to keep punching, no matter what.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan

tags: enduring, success

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#7

“You were a quiet man, yet you took up a vast amount of silent space and that was what I missed.”
― Tatiana de Rosnay, The House I Loved

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#8

“Words are not enough. Not mine, cut off at the throat before they breathe. Never forming, broken and swallowed, tossed into the void before they are heard. It would be easy to follow, fall to my knees, prostrate before the deli counter. Sweep the shelves clear, scatter the tins, pound the cakes to powder. Supermarket isles stretching out in macabre displays. Christmas madness, sad songs and mistletoe, packed car parks, rotten leaves banked up in corners. Forgotten reminders of summer before the storm. Never trust a promise, they take prisoners and wishes never come true. Fairy stories can have grim endings and I don’t know how I will face the world without you.”
― Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale

tags: truth-of-life

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#9

“وما أشد ما يسمو بخيالنا عن الوحش القوي ذي النفث الضبابي أن نراه يسبح في جلال خلال هدأة البحار الاستوائية، وقد تظلل رأسه الجريم اللطيف بظلّة من بخار ولّدتْه أفكاره التي لا يمكنه إبلاغها لغيره، وأن ذلك البخار يُرى أحيانا وقد وشحه قوس قزح، حتى كأن السماء نفسها أمّنت على أفكاره ووقّعت بالقبول. ولعلك تعلم أن قوس قزح لا يُلم بالفضاء الصافي وإنما يبعث الألق في البخار، وكذلك إذا تكاثف ضباب الشكوك القاتمة في عقلي تخللته أنوار الحدس الإلهية منوِّرة ذلك الضباب بشعاع سماوي. شكرا لله على هذا لأن الناس جميعا تعتريهم الشكوك، وكثير منهم يعتريهم الجحود، ولكن قل أن تجد في الناس من ينالون الحدس مع الشك أو الجحود. الشكوك في الأمور الأرضية، والحدس في الأمور السماوية، هذا المزيج لا يصنع مؤمنا خالصا ولا كافرا خالصا وإنما يصنع إنسانا يرى الحالتين دون تفرقة أو تمييز.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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#10

“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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#11

“Hestia sighed. ‘Stepping inside a mirror is like stepping into Pandora’s Box. It is a world of illusion and fragility. If the mirror is broken then so, too, will be whoever is inside the mirror at the time it is broken.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

tags: changeling, disabled-hero, fantasy-young-adult, mirror, ya-horror

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#12

“It was the fundamental bifurcation of the masses of human meat into two starkly opposite classes: the haves and the have-nots. The have-nots had barely anything. The haves had it all. The haves had everything except concern and compassion for the have-nots, who they regarded as little more than cockroaches.”
― John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

tags: drug-cartels, drug-trafficking, haruki-murakami, intrigue, japan, kenya, mystery-thriller, nigeria, true-crime, uganda

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#13

“Looking over the Ethan's bowed head, amidst the tangled forest of Wilderness littered with the bodies of men dead and dying, Victor saw the serene image of his mother. She smiled at her son, her unbound black hair blowing wildly in the breeze. She reached a hand out towards him, and this time, he went with her.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: american-historical-romance, historical-romance, historical-victorian-romance, history, love, passion, romance, torment, victorian-romance

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#14

“It became increasingly common to resolve international tensions by legal means. The chant “Criminal Trials, Not Missiles” became prevalent after its use in my first State of the Union address. Nice ring to it.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

tags: democracy, diplomacy, entertaining, fast-read, government, historical-fiction, policy, political-goals, succinct, witty

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#15

“Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party for the convenience of the police. It’s like an old-fashioned mystery novel.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

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

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#16

“Paul’s last grain of hope falling to the ground below him.”
― Molly Arbuthnott, Peanut the Hamster

tags: children-s-learning, discovery, fun, happiness, imagination, literature, love, mystery, warm

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#17

“With our beloved prairie voles the female has her ovulation induced by the smell of male urine. It’s a sure sign there’s a male nearby and so her body gets ready for mating. The exact opposite of a human female getting a whiff of urinals in a nightclub and her vagina falling off in disgust”
― Sara Pascoe

tags: sara-pascoe, women-s-humor

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#18

“Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

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#19

“Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.”
― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy

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#20

“But you see Annie, where there's pain, there's still feeling and where there's feeling, there's hope.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer

tags: pain-hope

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#21

“[S]ome men who cheat their wives out of grocery money wouldn't think of cheating the grocer. Men tend to carry their honesty in pigeonholes, Jean Louise. They can be perfectly honest in some ways and fool themselves in other ways.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

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#22

“The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

tags: fear, horror, islands, pity, vivisection

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#23

“I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
― Robyn Arianrhod, Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²

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