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#1

“What was once a home she had taken apart one piece at a time, one day...She sold her belongings for money to buy food. First the luxuries: a small statue, a picture. Then the items with more utility: a lamp, a kettle. Clothes left the closet at a rate of a garment a day…she burned everything in the basement first; then everything in the attic. It lasted weeks, not months. Though tempted, she left the roof alone. She stripped the second floor, and the stairs. She extracted every possible calorie from the kitchen. she wasn’t working alone, because neighbourhood pirates simultaneously stole anything of value outside: door and window frames, fencing, stucco. They pillaged her yard. Breaking in was a boundary her neigbours had not yet crossed. But the animals had. Rats and mice and other vermin found the cracks without much effort. Like her, they sought warmth and scraps of food. With great reluctance, she roasted the ones she could catch. She spent her nights fighting off the ones that escaped.”
― John Payton Foden, Magenta

tags: descriptive, eye-opener, frontline-journalist, hatred, history, loss, sacrifice, senseless-violence, violence

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#2

“Unfortunately, much of the important information Ambassador Grew sent to Washington was largely overlooked or ignored, and dialogue between Washington and Tokyo was strained. This state of affairs is indicated by Grew’s cable on July 10, 1941, in which he pointed out that he had to go to the British ambassador in Tokyo, Sir Robert Craigie, to find out about discussions between the State Department and the Japanese ambassador in Washington. This occurred because the State Department kept the British ambassador in Washington abreast of events, who promptly informed the foreign secretary in London, who in turn informed their ambassador in Tokyo. Sir Robert then kindly passed the information to Ambassador Grew.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

tags: biogrphies, diplomacy, duty, international-affairs, japan, negotiations, roosevelt, usa, world-war

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#3

“Cuando todo el mundo sigue por un camino, yo cojo el otro.”
― James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small

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#4

“تلك كانت المرة الأولى التي ارى فيها تلك الإيماءة التي كانت تعني أننا كنا عاجزين عن منع روح أحد نحبه من المغادرة إلى عالم الأرواح. يمكننا ان نحارب الموت, ولكنه حالما يقبض على أحدهم فلا شيء يمكن فعله بعد ذلك.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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#5

“or else I would have sung a song
in response to what the male sex sings.
For our lengthy past has much to say
about men's lives as well as ours”
― Euripides, Medea

tags: feminism, poetry

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#6

“At that time, her core burned relentlessly with passion, desire, and complete disorientation. Their union was officiated by a queen she’d only heard of in folklore, and the people of the valleys reached for her and clamored to see the bride like she was their elixir. All of this only intensified the yearnings pulsing through her body and soul. She remembers one young lady, a commoner really, who pushed in from a crowd, sweaty and pregnant, to grab Lylitte’s hand. She locked eyes with her and saw the fever raging inside; it was in all the people in those days, the shamelessness, and a lust for all things of the new world. It was like a hurricane for life that no one could understand who hadn’t felt it.
“Only when we experience true loss are we pulled back into our own dreaming,”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: big-feelings, court-intrigue, epic-romance, fantasy-vibes, forbidden-love, myth-and-sci-fi, mythic-fiction, romantic-sci-fi, sensual-writing, sff-romance

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#7

“US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vulture”. He said, “When the day comes for me to meet my maker and account for my actions, the thing that I would be most proud of is the fact that I fought against and perhaps totally prevented the carrying out of one of the most hare-brained tactical schemes that would have cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of men!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: determination, difficulty, experience, fighting, inspiring, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty

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#8

“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: excuse, life, musings, photos, writers, writers-life

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#9

“The excitement of the festivities escalated along with the darkening skies of winter, providing the perfect backdrop of secrecy and seduction that Venice was known for.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: atmospheric, beautiful-writing, carnival-season, historical-fiction, intrigue, romantic-tension, venice, winte-rmood

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#10

“Stupid or no, Father, you’re dead – and I’m not. ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adult-fantasy, antihero-voice, bitterness, court-intrigue, dark-fantasy, moral-ambiguity, survival, unreliable-narrator

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#11

“We imagine our paths are freely chosen. But there is a need to account for biology and history, the random intercession of other people, culture, race, and the mystery of the transcendent. ”
― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege

tags: big-questions, book-club, criminal-justice, human-behavior, memoir, narrative-nonfiction, nonfiction-reads, race-and-culture, social-context, thought-provoking

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#12

“Fear! Angel answered. I am Angel. I fear nothing.”
― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode

tags: adventure, bold-characters, book-quotes, bravado, fantasy, humor, middle-grade, pirates

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#13

“Her heart hammered, her head pounded. Part of her felt like maybe she could outrun it – the monster that stole her mother. She ran, the thumping of her feet her only anchor. She thought she
might rise up and explode, like a big greasy soap bubble.
If only I could.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: empathy, hardtopics, mentalhealthrep, motherdaughter, yafantasy, yalit

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#14

“A brand that feels human earns something no algorithm can replicate: trust”
― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

tags: ai-and-humanity, brand-strategy, business-leadership, customer-connection, human-centered-branding, marketing-nonfiction, thought-leadership, trust

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#15

“Do I have a choice”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: character-voice, future-world, power-dynamics, quick-read, science-fiction, space-thriller, witty-dialogue

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#16

“That wasn’t luck,” answered Alick with a shrug.”
― J L MARRAIN, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

tags: book-quotes, character-voice, coming-of-age, confidence, fantasy, sassy-dialogue, teen-reads

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#17

“As learnèd commentators view
In Homer more than Homer knew.”
― Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift's on Poetry: A Rapsody--A Critical Edition with a Historical Introduction and Commentary

tags: irony

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#18

“I did my best to fight and claw my way back to the life I once knew, but panic had taken over and colors were swirling and fading all around me. It was all turning into a great cloud of blackness, just like the one I had seen in my dream. The looming cloud of nothingness I had feared for so long was finally grabbing me, wiping my world dark and blank. The darkness was thick and intense, an inky void that stretched to eternity in every direction. Eventually my panic burnt itself out and I simply stayed there in the dark, feeling as if someone had drained my adrenal glands. I was no longer responding to the dark with fear, but acceptance. In fact, curiosity was beginning to take over.
The longer I let myself stare into it, the less dark it appeared. After some time, I realized that it was all different shades of murky black and foggy gray overlapping and undulating, just out of focus. I blinked mentally and suddenly she was there, standing above me with concern etched in sooty-colored lines on her monochromatic face.”
― Misty Mount, The Shadow Girl

tags: discovery, fantasy, friendship, introvert, invisible, isolated, lonely, mystery, teen-girl, young-adult

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#19

“I do not think of old age as an ever grimmer time that one must somehow endure and make the best of, but as a time of leisure and freedom, freed from the factitious urgencies of earlier days, free to explore whatever I wish, and to bind the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime together.”
― Oliver Sacks, Gratitude

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#20

“This is the first kiss that we're both fully aware of. Neither of us hobbled by sickness or pain or simply unconscious. Our lips neither burning with fever or icy cold. This is the first kiss where I actually feel stirring inside my chest. Warm and curious. This is the first kiss that makes me want another.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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#21

“Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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#22

“(If it seems odd that I don’t use the word “pet,” I can only say that I’ve always found it a diminutive behind which lurk a thousand forms of abuse.)”
― Caleb Carr, My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

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