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#1

“I had so much fun writing this book and I want readers to have fun also. A Passion for Prying is a feel-good, fun read. It's like eating a delicious, sinful hot fudge sundae--pure fun and indulgence.”
― Nancy Mangano, A Passion For Prying

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#2

“Who’d guess I fight crime?”
“Don’t exaggerate. You catch people doing the nasty with people they have no business getting nasty with.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

tags: manipulation, mystery, women-s-strength

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#3

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: philosophical-musings, reflection

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#4

“We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: acid, love-gone-wrong, love-hurts, poison, reflection

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#5

“Today I plan to smile a lot, only so people who know me will be freaked the fuck out.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: daily-goals, funny, humour, humour-quote, humourosly-inspirational, smile

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#6

“Are you living on Someday Island, always waiting for a breeze that never comes?”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: guide-for-living, intentional-living, life-guide, life-purpose, mindset-shift, personal-growth, procrastinating, purpose-driven-life, purpose-of-life, take-the-leap

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#7

“The cruel irony of the Golden Lifecuffs is that they promise freedom—freedom from worry, freedom in retirement—but they demand your presence as collateral.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: career-reflection, financial-freedom, golden-lifecuffs, intentional-living, life-design, personal-growth, purpose-over-paycheck, time-freedom, wealth-mindset, work-life-balance

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#8

“Money is a tool, never the master. A Wealthy Soul uses money to serve God and people, not the other way around.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: biblical-money, christian, christian-living, faith-and-finances, faith-based-books, financial-wisdom, generous-living, kingdom-purpose, money-mindset, purposeful-wealth

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#9

“The world will try to make you efficient at meaningless things—busy, polished, perfectly useless. Don't fall for it. Efficiency is only noble when it serves purpose.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: intentional-living, life-guide, life-purpose, meaningful-work, mindful-success, personal-development, productivity-mindset, purpose-over-busyness, purposeful-productivity, values-driven-life

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#10

“The supposition was that the difference in energy when n (or v) changes by one is therefore equal to hv, the product of the Planck constant and the vibration frequency was always derived using these pre-revolution mechanics. This was, of course, dependent on gravity having an effect on an atomic level, while acknowledging that it does not. Absurd right? But for a transition from level n to level n+ one due to absorption of a photon, the frequency of the photon has nothing to do with Planck…”
“Atom, for god’s sake, stop it!” Hannah interrupts.
“Stop? Stop what?”
“Why do you do this to people?” Hannah says, causing Lylitte to laugh, and the older woman to look at Hannah curiously.
“What he was going to eventually say is that we’re teaching the stem cells to sing their songs louder so that they harmonize and teach their melody to the host, once it’s introduced,” Billy explains.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: bio-tech-sci-fi, future-science, hard-sci-fi, nerd-lit, physics-nerd, quantum-talk, regenerative-medicine, science-in-fiction, stem-cells, stem-reads

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#11

“The music stops as they walk out of the forest toward the smooth extra-terrestrial spacecraft glistening in the sun on the far side of the meadow. To Atom, the ship feels like a time machine. Steven and Sylvia watch them with deadpan stares as the three astronauts walk with the spectacle of eclectic, colorful characters on feathered horseback following. A breeze picks up and Atom glances back to see stoic faces with vibrant robes and dresses flowing in the wind.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: adventure-reads, alien-world, cinematic-reading, epic-sci-fi, planetary-romance, portal-vibes, science-fantasy, space-and-swords, strange-new-worlds, worldbuilding

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#12

“We don’t know what you mean, my dear,” Lydia says sweetly, sitting right next to him.
Atom puts his book down and looks at Steven. “It’s the unsolved blind spot. Nothing is ever ‘in the bag.’ Look, the problem of Pre-Collapse science was that it insisted on patch jobs, like Husserl’s critique of the Surreptitious Substitution and its god-like conceit, while ignoring the absurdity of measurement bias. All scientific inquiry requires an expulsive approach in order to maintain the involvement variable. This is basic stuff.” He then leans back in his comfortable chair and continues hiding behind his book.
“The Riddler has spoken,” Hannah says, moving a bishop forward three squares.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: bigideas, book-nerd, brainy-sci-fi, intellectual-fiction, meta-sci-fi, philosophy-of-science, sci-fi-philosophy, science-talk, smart-books, theory-nerd

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#13

“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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#14

“The room was cavernous, divided into varied sections by high Moorish arches of a rusty peach, the ceiling of painted patterns set between strips of light blue wood. Bright colors everywhere, high curved windows bordered in violet, smaller windows inset with yellow and green stones and framed in aqua, banquettes upholstered in red and gold.
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― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: action, adventure, crime, drama, fiction, organised-crime, thriller, women-s-adventure

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#15

“I can't say." Miranda mimicked a very grown-up sound with her imperious tone. "I wasn't at the morgue. I was in school.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: 21st-century, absolution, autopsy, blood, crime, fast-paced, intrigue, noir-fiction, stalking, suspense-thriller

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#16

“In those happy days before Notre Dame Cathedral burned and Paris streets became thick with electric scooters.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: action, adventure, drama, dramatic, fast-paced, investigation, mystery, thriller

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#17

“They both start with a B. Do you think Baudelaire sounds like Bernhardt?" Her niece eyed her for a moment, then shook her head. "Mommy always says you say the strangest things.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: curiosity, drama, exhilarating, fiction, fiction-novel, investigator, mystery, sleuth, thriller

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#18

“I have often reflected that people who say “times have changed” usually live as though they had not.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: book-club-reads, changing-times, dry-wit, fiction, fiction-writing, human-nature, literary-fiction

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#19

“I wish I had a canvas and could paint the serene colours of eternity from the harsh palette that is planet Earth.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: fiction, human-nature, literary-fiction, mortality, poetic, poetic-fiction, romantic

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#20

“Being in love is so often depicted as a blissful condition in the comforting pages of fiction. It was not so for me.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: adult-fiction, emotional-conflict, literary-fiction, love, romantic, romantic-tragedy

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#21

“Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.”
― Forrest Carter, The Outlaw Josey Wales

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#22

“Granma's name was Bonnie Bee. I knew that when I heard him late at night say, 'I kin ye, Bonnie Bee,' he was saying, 'I love ye,' for the feeling was in the words.”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

tags: family, love

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#23

“Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

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#24

“Trust me. I'm a genius.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

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#25

“Foaly: Anyone see you come in here?
Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB.
Foaly: The EIB?
Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl Band 1-3

tags: humor

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#26

“There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I will bear them, because the alternative is too terrible. -Artemis Fowl, The Lost Colony”
― Eion Colfer, Artemis Fowl Collection

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#27

“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: atheism, child-abuse, children, feminism, hell, religion, religion-and-children, rhetorical-questions, sexism, women, women-and-religion

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#28

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water

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#29

“In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

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#30

“I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

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