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#1

“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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#2

“Law and order during 2020 seemed to slip past most communities until the Vigilante stepped into view and began his own style of justice.”
― RB Le `Deach, My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories

tags: bloody, dark-fantasy, fantasies, fiction, fiction-novel, gruesome, sick, sick-fantasies, sick-mind, twisted

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#3

“I worked hard at fitting in and becoming an American, but then I discovered that being an American was not enough. I had to be a Black American because that’s how Americans, especially whites, saw me.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

tags: biographical-novel, deep, friendship, love, sadness, self-discovery, separation, traumatic-childhood, trilogy

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#4

“A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
― 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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#5

“Hem düşündüm ki, senin farkına varması için yanlış çalmak zorundaysan, o zaman hiç farkına varmasın, daha iyi. Görüyor musunuz, ben böyleyim.”
― Patrick Süskind, El contrabajo

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#6

“Self-discipline is self-caring.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

tags: self-care, self-discipline

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#7

“To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , The Second Sex

tags: courtship, entrapment, husbands, marriage, matrimony, wives

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#8

“Nathan had never wanted children of his own. Plenty of reasons. Babies screamed as soon as they were born – wasn’t that warning enough of what was to come? And when they grew into toddlers, and then young kids, they were far worse: tantrums, more screaming, whining. How many business trips, restaurant dinners, theatre visits, you name it, were ruined by one small, precocious loud brat and its doting, utterly useless parents? No discipline any more. Nathan had sure been disciplined.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

tags: action, dark, excitement, thriller

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#9

“Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?” he asked. Yellow hair like hers was rare among the Greeks. Though some people say that Helen of Troy . . .”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: exquisite, governance, historical, history, justice, political-intrigue, realistic, romance, vibrant

309 likes

#10

“She must feel like Lucifer’s frigid breath is running down the back of her delicate neck.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

390 likes

#11

“Your Honor,” the jury foreman began to read, “We the jury find in favor of the . . .”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal of Faith

tags: abuse-of-power, child-abuse, church, cover-up, emotional, justice, peadophilia, priest, religion, sexual-abuse

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#12

“#metooasachild”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

tags: metooasachild

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#13

“Mary Miracle would always recall with clarity the moment she decided to kill her husband.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

tags: crime, drama, exciting, gripping, lies, romance, suspense, thrilling, who-dun-it

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#14

“Για να είναι κανείς ανθρώπινος, πρέπει να συναναστρέφεται με ανθρώπους.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

tags: άνθρωπος, ανθρώπινος, συναναστροφή

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#15

“What other problems do American soldiers face when hunting down these fanatical killers?”
“A person’s senses are more acute when being hunted,” Reid said. “More adept at avoiding capture.”
These guys are good, Blake thought as a bead of sweat trickled down the small of his back. What have I gotten myself into?”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: action-packed, anticipation, entertaining, fascinating, fast-paced-thriller, government, humour, political-thriller, spy-novel

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#16

“Calder has stepped over the line too many times. He gets no more chances to go against man and God.”
― Donald Montano, Drink Deep from the Well of Good Intentions

tags: action, adventure, drama, dramatic, literary-fiction, thrilling, violence

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#17

“The disturbing part is that no one teaches us how to deal with death at any point during our medical training, or even during our lifetime for that matter, particularly in a field such as mine where death was an inevitable certainty for some patients.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: balance, dedication, emotions, heartfelt, medical, medical-fiction, overworked, suffering, trauma, wellbeing

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#18

“Eleanor Roosevelt’s determination to rise above her personal pain gave the world one of its great leaders.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

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#19

“There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.”
― Euripides

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#20

“... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids.”
― Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

tags: growing-up, immaturity, maturity

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#21

“Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: personality, psychology

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#22

“I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write it. That's all." ~ Mrs. Oliver”
― Agatha Christie, Dead Man's Folly

tags: writing, writing-life

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#23

“A dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet.
When the wish and fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.
If fate does not make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.”
― Gregory David Roberts

tags: amazing-quotes

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#24

“Ah, Heidi, that brings light to the heart! What comfort you have brought me!”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

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#25

“But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way.”
― Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man

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#26

“One balks, then agrees, then balks again only to agree again; that is the way one learns things.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity

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#27

“الأنطوائيون , في المقابل , ربما لديهم مهارات أجتماعية قوية ويتمتعون باللقاء في الحفلات والاعمال , لكن بعد حين يرغبون لو كانوا في قمصان النوم في بيوتهم . أنهم يفضلون تكريس طاقتهم الاجتماعية لأصدقائهم المقربين والزملاء والعائلة , أنهم ينصتون أكثر مما يتكلمون , ويفكرون قبل أن يتكلمون , و يشعرون غالباً أنهم أفضل في التعبير عن أنفسهم في الكتابة أكثر من المحادثة , وهم يكرهون الصراع , وكثير منهم يرعبهم الحوار القصير ولكن يتمتعون بالنقاشات العميقة”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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#28

“She would stay alive for another night. And then what? She was still lost in the woods in winter. She was still a murderer. And though she didn’t have fangs and talons right then, she was no longer normal. She heard too well, saw too well, smelled too well. When the sun touched her, she burst into flame. She had become a creature of darkness.”
― John Patrick Kennedy, Princess Dracula

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