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#1

“The regular choreography, entrances and exits of blooms in stages such that the garden looked like an ever-evolving carousel of swirling rainbows and radiant butterflies, seemed condensed. All of the flowers still obeyed some silent urgent command to make their debut. But this year, it definitely unfolded more quickly, as if racing to meet a new compelling deadline.”
― John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

tags: drug-cartels, drug-trafficking, haruki-murakami, intrigue, japan, kenya, mystery-thriller, nigeria, true-crime, uganda

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#2

“With no light and no mirror, I cannot tell a thing except the dress is dark. Dark as my mood. Dark as my future.”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

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#3

“Looking over the Ethan's bowed head, amidst the tangled forest of Wilderness littered with the bodies of men dead and dying, Victor saw the serene image of his mother. She smiled at her son, her unbound black hair blowing wildly in the breeze. She reached a hand out towards him, and this time, he went with her.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: american-historical-romance, historical-romance, historical-victorian-romance, history, love, passion, romance, torment, victorian-romance

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#4

“Listen, you might as well learn now that life’s nothin’ but a dirt sandwich and save yourself a lot of time.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, detective, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, noir-mystery, pi, private-investigation

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#5

“Is it still a fish cart when there’s no fish in it? When its false bottom is filled with children?”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

tags: action, adventure, fantasy, fiction, intrigue, love, mystery, teen-ya, urban-fantasy, wizardry

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#6

“Hestia sighed. ‘Stepping inside a mirror is like stepping into Pandora’s Box. It is a world of illusion and fragility. If the mirror is broken then so, too, will be whoever is inside the mirror at the time it is broken.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

tags: changeling, disabled-hero, fantasy-young-adult, mirror, ya-horror

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#7

“It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: ancient-greece, conflict, greek-gods, historical-fiction, love-story, romance, spartans

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#8

“He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: books, literature, poetry, words

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#9

“You are the call and I am the answer,
You are the wish, and I the fulfilment,
You are the night, and I the day.
What else? It is perfect enough.
It is perfectly complete.
You and I,
What more—?
Strange, how we suffer in spite of this!”
― D.H. Lawrence, Look! We Have Come Through!

tags: complete, d-h-lawrence, look-we-have-come-through, night-and-day, perfect, strange, suffering, whole, you-and-i

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#10

“The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe

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#11

“Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom.”
― Sebastian Faulks, The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives

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#12

“I am trying to penetrate the mystery of why I am as I am- what I am- I have done everything well and right- and it can't be wrong because it was right.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Night of the Aurochs

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#13

“Everything about him screamed in warning, “Caution: dangerous terrain ahead.” A warning that both intrigued and provoked her proceed-at-your-own-risk nature.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: action, adventure, drama, excitement, exciting, fiction, friendship, intrigue, kidnap, thrilling

187 likes

#14

“Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: editing, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing

345 likes

#15

“The film image of a dead child dressed in blood-red floating, Ophelia-like, in "Don’t Look Now" swam before her eyes. It must be some kind of diabolical threat!”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: betrayal, danger, deceit, drama, penalty, redemption, sin, sinners, suspense, understanding

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#16

“Once you experience how rewarding it is to be your true self, flaws and all, without the need to feel guilty or inadequate, you will begin to wonder, ‘Where have I been my whole entire life?”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

tags: authenticity, healing-journey, inner-child-healing, personal-growth, self-discovery, self-worth, trauma-recovery

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#17

“Colonel Nguyen Van Tan said, “Sauget et Sang, you shall start making amends by confessing your crimes in public here, in this courtroom when the reporters from news services around the world arrive!”

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

tags: bad, dangerous, deeds, divided, division, ethics, good, greed, helpless, humanity

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#18

“Keep an open mind and try some new methods.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: climate, four-seasons, gardening, harvest, harvesting, healthy-vegetable, plant-guide, seasons, sustainable

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#19

“Every storm runs out of rain.”
― JoDee Neathery, Wings Against The Wind

tags: emotional-reads, healing, hope, resilience, second-chances, uplifting-line, womens-fiction

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#20

“I still love the person he is—loyal and kind—but we’re on different paths, and that is okay.”
― Maria Jane, Perfect

tags: breakup-quotes, contemporary-romance, different-paths, emotional-clarity, letting-go-of-the-past, letting-go-quotes, romance, womens-fiction

78 likes

#21

“Pink, gold, blue.
I choose you!”
― Gail Carson Levine, For Biddle's Sake

tags: শ-র-ত-মধ-র

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#22

“As before, Dodd believed Hitler was “perfectly sincere” about wanting peace. Now, however, the ambassador had realized, as had Messersmith before him, that Hitler’s real purpose was to buy time to allow Germany to rearm. Hitler wanted peace only to prepare for war. “In the back of his mind,” Dodd wrote, “is the old German idea of dominating Europe through warfare.”
― Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

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#23

“How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.”
― Ki Longfellow

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#24

“I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. "

"What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more."

I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

tags: heartbreak, love, lovelorn

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#25

“و سألت الرب دون خـوف .. عما إذا كان يعتقد أن البشر مصنوعون من حديد ليتحملوا كل هذه الآلام و العذابات ؟”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: مئة-عام-من-العزلة

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#26

“I would bury my husband and be buried with him. I would find his body and wrap him in linen, take the knife that had stolen his life and open my wrists with it so we could sleep together in the dust. We would pass eternity in the quiet, sad, gray world of the dead, eating dust, looking through eyes made of dust upon the false world of men. I had no other thought. I was alone and empty. I was a grave looking to be filled with the peace of death.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

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