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    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
    “You can’t have trust without fairness”
    ― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
    tags: best-work, business, empower, goals, human-resource, insightful, leader, sentiment, suboptimal, workplace-experiences
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    Candace L. Talmadge
    “Good evening, Sergeant,” Helen said. “What’s that?”
    He held the bag out to her. “A present for Lieutenant Angel. Something
    to eat on your journey.”
    She took it and put it back on the desk. “Wipe that damn grin off
    your face, Sergeant. A smiling Toltec is a contradiction in terms.”
    ― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
    tags: ancient-civilizations, courage, fantasy-fiction, forbidden-knowledge, hidden-lineage, outcast, political-scandal, power-struggles, spiritual-journey, tension
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    “There will be a time when I will answer everything, Avelyn. But it is far in the future for you.”
    ― Jack Borden, The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel
    tags: character-growth, dark-lands, determination, dramatic, fantasy-series, heart-stopping, overcoming-fear, reluctant-hero, sacrifice, toadskunks
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    Lesley Glaister
    “When she entered the sitting room she was not at first noticed. The music had changed now, to something slower, and the women were dancing; Harri’s dark head against the breast of Gwen’s white shirt, Gwen’s hand low on Harri’s back. Gwen’s eyes were closed and the look on her face, serene and blissful, sent a fright through Clem.”
    ― Lesley Glaister, Blasted Things
    tags: destuction, drama, fiction, ptsd-trauma-survival-survivor, war
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “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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    Daphne du Maurier
    “The child destined to be a writer is vulnerable to every wind that blows. Now warm, now chill, next joyous, then despairing, the essence of his nature is to escape the atmosphere about him, no matter how stable, even loving. No ties, no binding chains, save those he forges for himself. Or so he thinks. But escape can be delusion, and what he is running from is not the enclosing world and its inhabitants, but his own inadequate self that fears to meet the demands which life makes upon it. Therefore create. Act God. Fashion men and women as Prometheus fashioned them from clay, and, by doing this, work out the unconscious strife within and be reconciled. While in others, imbued with a desire to mold, to instruct, to spread a message that will inspire the reader and so change his world, though the motive may be humane and even noble--many great works have done just this--the source is the same dissatisfaction, a yearning to escape.”
    ― Daphne Du Maurier, The Loving Spirit
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    A.S. Byatt
    “She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she was not there. There was no pleasing her, in fact. She had the grace, even at eleven, to know there was no pleasing her. She thought a lot, analytically, about other people's feelings, and had only just begun to realize that this was not usual, and not reciprocated.”
    ― A.S. Byatt, The Children's Book
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    Iain Banks
    “Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.”
    ― Iain Banks
    tags: writing-process
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    Lynne Truss
    “Joseph Robertson wrote in an essay on punctuation in 1785, “The art of punctuation is of infinite consequence in writing; as it contributes to the perspicuity, and consequently to the beauty, of every composition.”
    ― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “I wish I was friends with things," he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends with, and I can't bear people.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett
    tags: friendship, humor, misanthropy
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    Carl Sagan
    “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Contact
    tags: optimism, seti, universe
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    S.E. Stitcher
    “Time is a luxury we don’t have. Each passing second raises the probability that someone else just took their last breath.”
    ― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher
    tags: crime, crime-thriller, fbi-profiler, high-stakes, procedural-thriller, race-against-time, serial-killer, serial-killer-hunt, thriller, thriller-readers
    124 likes

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  • #13
    “A slither to my right. It reminded me that people weren’t the only danger out here. Hopefully, what I thought were silent steps were thunderous to the desert snakes.”
    ― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre
    tags: compelling, complex-motives, dark-secrets, dramatic-twists, forbidden-truths, high-speed-chase, layered-characters, rapid-fire-action, redemption, undercover-investigation
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    Susan Rowland
    “If it’s the next storm, perhaps it’s going the other way.” “Goddess, I hope so,” said Dorothy, grimacing at her tea.
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    ― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders
    tags: found-family, hope-in-darkness, stormy-reads, tea-and-books, urban-fantasy, weekend-read, witchy-mystery
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    Charles Dowding
    “Beauty matters in a productive garden because a beautiful garden pulls people in.”
    ― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests
    tags: flowers-and-vegetables, garden-beauty, garden-inspiration, gardening-life, home-garden, kitchen-garden, wellbeing
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    JoDee Neathery
    “Gabe, sugar, can I come in?” He turned toward her, his tiny face incurably somber, his eyes misty and wounded.
    Aunt Starla. Did you bring Mommy?” he asked with a slight hitch in his voice.”
    ― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush
    tags: drama, favorites, fiction, intrigue, mystery, romance, suspense, suspense-thriller
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    Jostein Gaarder
    “The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
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    Franz Kafka
    “Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
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    T.H. White
    “for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.”
    ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
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    Eckhart Tolle
    “Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
    tags: awareness, emotions, thoughts
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    Christine M. Knight
    “Any day that we are privileged to work at the chalk face is a good one," Van der Huffen replied dryly.
    "We should pay the Department for the privilege," Bruce Smith, Head Teacher Creative Arts and Languages, replied.
    "I believe that many of us have; the coin is sweat, fat, and tears.”
    ― Christine M Knight
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    Dashiell Hammett
    “The chief thing,” I advised them, “is not to let her tire you out. When you catch her in a lie, she admits it and gives you another lie to take its place and, when you catch her in that one, admits it and gives you still another, and so on. Most people—even women—get discouraged after you’ve caught them in the third or fourth straight lie and fall back on either the truth or silence, but not Mimi. She keeps trying and you’ve got to be careful or you’ll find yourself believing her, not because she seems to be telling the truth, but simply because you’re tired of disbelieving her.”
    ― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
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