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    Chitra Nawbatt
    “It’s possible to build an amazing and fulfilling life on your terms, where you live to your fullest potential. Be whatever you aspire to be—not what someone else wants or thinks you should be.”
    ― Chitra D. Nawbatt, The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success
    tags: ambition, career-growth, empowerment, life-on-your-terms, mindset, personal-development, self-worth
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    “Professionalism is saying no when your client tells you to do something that is not in accord with what you believe is right.”
    ― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life
    tags: career-advice, client-counsel, integrity, law-students, legal-memoir, moral-courage, professional-ethics
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  • #3
    Candace L. Talmadge
    “One day isn’t good enough, Isaac. My patient is in dire need today, right now.”
    ― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
    tags: determination, duty-and-drive, fantasy, high-stakes, motivation, no-more-waiting, take-action, women-in-stem
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    S.E. Stitcher
    “You know I’ve seen a lot of evil,” Kozlowski replied. “But the Four Horsemen? The Apocalypse? Nope. Never worked anything like this. Try not to vomit all over yourself.”
    ― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher
    tags: apocalyptic-suspense, crime-thriller, dark-comedy, fbi-procedural, gallows-humor, serial-killer-thriller, thriller-readers
    155 likes

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    Rich DiSilvio
    “Miners were like insignificant carpenter ants; their entire life and purpose was simply to bore through hard substances, whereby destroying nature and themselves in the grueling process. Meanwhile, men like Huxley,, Carnegie and Frick were the very select few who were reaping the gargantuan rewards of gold, or in this case, coal and steel.”
    ― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age
    tags: american-history, child-labor, class-warfare, coal-miner, gilded-age, labor, steel-and-coal
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  • #6
    JoDee Neathery
    “Starla and Conner ambled to his car, knowing each deliberate footstep meant the road to parting was nearer. He leaned his back against the door pulling her within inches of his face, their personal space evaporating like dew steeped in the warmth of the morning sun. She tilted her head sideways, searching his eyes with hers. Straightening the collar of his shirt she said, “If I’m too bold forgive me, but you fill a void in my life . . . you’re like finding that stray earring I’ve been trying to find for ages and now that I have, it scares me.”
    ― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush
    tags: blame, challenges, guilt, love, mystery, novel, redemption, romance, suspense, tradgedy
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  • #7
    Isham Cook
    “Wherever she was, familiar territory or not, the mountains were her home, and the trees her friends.”
    ― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison
    tags: book-quotes, fiction, fierce-heroines, goodreads-quotes, historical-fiction, nature-writing, qing-dynasty, survival
    124 likes

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  • #8
    Marcia Breece
    “The music felt like a special gift from Ted, a view into his soul.”
    ― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle
    tags: book-club-reads, emotional-reads, family-saga, first-love, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, music-in-fiction
    290 likes

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    Susan Rowland
    “Attached to each arm, as well as the skirt, they looked like an attempt to grow wings.
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    ― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders
    tags: art-and-magic, ballet-aesthetic, dark-fairytale-vibes, goodreads-quotes, lyrical-prose, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery
    154 likes

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  • #10
    Edwin A. Abbott
    “Sphere: […] This omnividence, as you call it—it is not a common word in Spaceland—does it make you more just, more merciful, less selfish, more loving? Not in the least. Then how does it make you more divine?”
    ― Edwin Abbott Abbott, Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray
    tags: dullness, greatness, vanity-fair
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    Muriel Barbery
    “They didn't recognize me," I say.
    I come to a halt in the middle of the sidewalk, completely flabbergasted.
    "They didn't recognize me," I repeat.
    He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm.
    "It is because they have never seen you," he says. "I would recognize you anywhere.”
    ― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
    tags: romance-love
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  • #13
    James Joyce
    “الى الداخل . . داخل الداخل :
    لقد ظل الشعور بأن الوعي الإنساني يتطور، ويتنامى منذ زمن هيجل على الاقل . وعلى الرغم من أن الكينونة الإنسانية تعني أن يكون المرء شخصا - من ثم - فريدا غير قابل للاستنساخ ، فلذا يتطلب أن يكون نصه كذلك ، وكذلك تلقيه للنص ، حيث يتحول بقراءته إلى الداخل . داخل الداخل !.”
    ― جيمس جويس, عوليس
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  • #14
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: hope, inspirational, tragedy
    275 likes

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  • #15
    Diane Setterfield
    “In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.”
    ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
    tags: language
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