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#1

“Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?"
"I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: dystopian, fantasy, fiction, fight, gripping, literary-fiction, love, mystery, sci-fi-romance, war

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#2

“Bend with me.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

tags: action-and-adventure, action-fantasy, action-packed, adventure-fantasy, conspire, life-and-death, plots, politics, secrets, twists

30 likes

#3

“Hello Charles, came the voice. I am the Watcher from the Sky. ”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: action, drama, dystopian, fiction, mystery, past, plot-turns, science, twists, unexpected

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#4

“That’s the second time you’ve apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line.”
― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

tags: danger, fast-paced, fiction, kidnapping, pulp-thriller, sea, special-ops, terrorism, thriller, trauma

107 likes

#5

“A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris had stopped again, his silhouette a stark black juxtaposition against the background of illuminated branches.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: descriptive-prose, visual-moments

347 likes

#6

“One thing, though, was for sure – here I was, alive, healthy but as unquiet in my way as they were in theirs. Transcendent equality. You’ve got to love it.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: betrayal, dramatic, emotionally-charged, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, mystery, suspense, unpredictable

117 likes

#7

“Even with all this power, it comes down to the same old things. Connections, money, influence.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

tags: dark, darkness, development, domination, power, struggle, uncertainty, ya, young-adult, young-adult-fiction

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#8

“You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
― Heath Sommer

tags: the-manufactured-identity

687 likes

#9

“She was a beautiful instance of what is reverentially called “a true woman.” Little, of course—no true woman may be big. Pretty, of course—no true woman could possibly be plain. Whimsical, capricious, charming, changeable, devoted to pretty clothes and always “wearing them well,” as the esoteric phrase has it.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

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#10

“It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light.”
― Dave Eggers, Zeitoun

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#11

“A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.”
― Alexander Hamilton

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#12

“The world was used to enormous egos in artists, actors, entertainers of all sorts, in politicians, sports figures, and even journalists, because they had such familiar and convenient ways to show them off. But that slim young man over there in uniform, with the enormous watch on his wrist and the withdrawn look on his face, that young officer who is so shy that he can’t even open his mouth unless the subject is flying— that young pilot— well, my friends, his ego is even bigger!— so big, it’s breathtaking!”
― Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff

tags: ego, flying, pilot

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#13

“Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?”
― Kristin Cashore, Kristin Cashore eSampler

tags: bann, council, katsa, letters, nander, po, raffin, secret

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#14

“Where’s my uncle?” she asked.
“I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place before I bought it, then he’s pushing up daisies.”
“But it can’t be, he’s still young.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fiction, intrigue, magic, mystery, survival, thriller, urban-fantasy, witches

283 likes

#15

“Man, oh, man. He is one high-maintenance marsupial.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: best-friends, character-comedy, friend-group, funny-dialogue, humor, kids-books, middle-grade, read-aloud, talking-animals

42 likes

#16

“That Santanello had also made a life-long decision to literally erase his art, and in essence himself, from the world of art also struck Armand hard.”
― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries

tags: art-mystery, artists-journey, book-quotes, emotional-reads, haunting-themes, identity-and-art, mystery-readers, quiet-intensity, vanishing-acts

61 likes

#17

“Mary dashed the rain from her eyes with a frozen hand. Was that a knife buried in the man’s chest with the blood seeping up around it? Doesn’t that mean he’s alive? Although with the blade at that angle, it can’t be for long. Colors swam in the water coating Mary’s vision. She rubbed her face, and with every shuttering breath, even before she could see his features, she knew her son, George, the son she had never met, was dead.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

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

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#18

“When people grow up in a home where extramarital sex is condoned, they’re much less likely to regard it as a deal-breaker. Jacqueline Bouvier’s father, ‘Black Jack,’ confided in her about his female conquests, even going so far as to play a game with Jackie when he visited her at boarding school. She would point to a classmate’s mother, and Jack would respond, ‘Yes’ or ‘Not yet’ — answering the silent question, had he slept with that one?”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationships

103 likes

#19

“As the taxi entered the intersection, the two drivers in the attorney general’s entourage slammed on the brakes. Both Suburbans fishtailed out of control. Ducking in the back seat, Blake could smell the burning rubber from tires skidding on the asphalt and hear the pedestrians screaming and car horns sounding off in rebuke.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: clandestine, counterterrorism, drama, justice, legal, novel, plotting, suspense, target

275 likes

#20

“Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went down in here, he was going to need all of his wits to get out of it.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: comfortably-numb, drugs, impending-doom

350 likes

#21

“I drank it in one, then refilled it, paused, then threw the glass and its contents hard against the wall. I hated the way I felt. I was a servant of God! ‘Shit!
‘Your sister lives in our house and she’s nice to everyone else. Well, it’s about time she was nice to me too.”
― Brian J. Twiddy, Blessing

tags: breaking-point, dark-character-study, emotional-unraveling, faith-and-failure, guilt-and-rage, inner-demons, messy-human-moments, psychological-thriller, spiritual-conflict

86 likes

#22

“I was astonished at how much older literature can actually be read as if it were contemporary.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

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#23

“There is no such thing as immunity from the joy or pain of the past.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

tags: dare-to-dream, difficulty, experiences, grit, hope, life-goals, real-life, true-story, uncertainty

39 likes

#24

“The artist’s bookcases were full of poets, like the bookcases of anyone trying to find out how everyone else copes.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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#25

“Julien took breath for a moment in the shade of these great rocks and then started to go up higher. By a narrow, unfrequented path, used only by the goat shepherds, he soon found himself upon an immense rock, where he was sure of being all alone. That physical position made him smile; it pictured to him the moral plane he was burning to reach. The pure air of those high mountains imparted serenity to his soul, even joy.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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#26

“Busy is good, isn't it? Busy means we're hard at it, achieving our ends or "goals." Haven't had time to stop, or look around or think. That's considered the sign of a life well lived. Although people complain of it - another year gone, where did that one go? - tacitly, they're proud. Otherwise they wouldn't do it: you put your time where your priority is.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

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