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#1

“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, mystery, trauma

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#2

“She stared at her console, wanting to punch it. Her dream, running to save her life, to save everything, was all going to come true down on the planet’s surface. And when it did, she knew this time she wasn’t going to wake up.”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

tags: adventure, colonization, cyberpunk, epic, original, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, space, thriller

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#3

“The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

tags: attitude, emotions, optimism, pessimism, thinking

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#4

“It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased;”
― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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#5

“When he thought of the old man he could see him suddenly in a field in the spring, trying to move a gray boulder. He always knew instinctively the ones you could move, even though the greater part was buried in the earth, and he expected you to move the rock and not discuss it. A hard and silent man, an honest man, a noble man. Little humor but sometimes the door opened and you saw the warmth within a long way off, a certain sadness, a slow, remote, unfathomable quality as if the man wanted to be closer to the world but did not know how. Once Chamberlain had a speech memorized from Shakespeare and gave it proudly, the old man listening but not looking, and Chamberlain remembered it still: 'What a piece of work is man...in action how like an angel!' And the old man, grinning, had scratched his head and then said stiffly, 'Well, boy, if he's an angel, he's sure a murderin' angel.' And Chamberlain had gone on to school to make an oration on the subject: Man, the Killer Angel. And when the old man heard about it he was very proud, and Chamberlain felt very good remembering it. The old man was proud of his son, the colonel.”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

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#6

“„Тя не държи да се харесва — мислеше си той, — да бъде красива, чаровна. Пренебрегва тази страна от женската същност и сякаш сама се наказва, задето е толкова хубава. И тази горда враждебност към себе си десеторно увеличава чара й.

Колко е хубаво всичко, което прави. Чете така, сякаш това не е висша човешка дейност, а е нещо най-просто, достъпно и за животните. Все едно носи вода или бели картофи.“

Покрай тези размишления докторът се поуспокои. Рядко спокойствие обзе душата му. Мислите му престанаха да бягат и да прескачат от едно на друго. Той се усмихна неволно.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

tags: beautiful-women, love, unconditional-love

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#7

“The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles.”
― Christine M Knight, Life Song

tags: hope, inspirtational, overcoming-adversity, triumph

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#8

“Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

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#9

“While Bonnie may love her books, her favorite thing of all is when kids from the school come over to visit.”
― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words

tags: bookish-kids, childrens-books, community, library-visit, read-aloud, school-trip, storytime

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#10

“That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: misery-loves-company, reflection

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#11

“You could just fall in love with me, then.” He leaned closer. “Problem solved.”
“You first.” I huffed and moved away, pain seared through my chest—stomping out the warmth that had been so alive a moment before.”
― J. Rose Black, Chasing Headlines

tags: affairs-of-the-heart, american-romance, attraction, compelling, happiness, joy, love, risk, suspense

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#12

“Dreams that last hold secrets from the past.
Out of reach. Impossible to breach.
Fragile to clutch. Fleeting to touch.
Like stars and snowflakes and visions all aglow.
Time is endless in our youth. Our dreams are rustproof.
Our time to chase is aloof.
From the horizon of hope comes the challenge to dare.
Our time to dream has changed in midair.
Dreams that last hold secrets from the past—
uniquely ours to share if we so care.
Starla Jordan's therapy - writing song lyrics or poetry.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

tags: creative-people, poetry, song-lyrics, therapy, writing

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#13

“The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of
colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty,
and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to
make up its mind.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: comingofage, relatablereads, restlesshearts, secondchances, yafantasy, yalit

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#14

“dance
my friend
until it's done

busted haiku are my attempt
to poke holes in reality's wallpaper...
they come unbidden in brief
flashes at unappointed times...
they are not memories,
rather a separate way of seeing

forget what you know

used enlightenment
as-is
needs work

no clock ticks
true time

first crocus pokes winter in the ass

loves me not
she loves me
i quit while ahead

god is blind

tiny spider
i too hang in vastness

first loves
her hand and mine”
― John Coulton Waugh, busted haiku

tags: haiku, haiku-poetry, haiku-poetry-book, haiku-quotes, haiku-quotes-poetic-thoughts, poetry

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#15

“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

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#16

“Von Trotha said, “The Wahehe are a tribe of about one quarter of a million people! On the 17th of August 1891, they defeated the German expedition against them which was led by Zeleski.”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: battles, classical-struggles, drama, family-life, hierarchy, history, literature, military-campaigns, passion

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#17

“Dressing appropriately can foster connections with locals, enhancing your travel experience.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: connect-through-style, cultural-awareness, cultural-sensitivity, meaningful-travel, respectful-travel, travel-better, travel-etiquette

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#18

“Everything is more expensive. There is so much more to do in Madrid, so you’ll have to learn to say no to events so you can study.”
― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University

tags: college-advice, madrid-life, nonfiction, priorities, student-life-balance, study-habits, time-management

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#19

“The Future Isn’t As Scary As It Looks”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: anxiety-relief, courage, hope, keep-going, life-lessons, new-beginnings, philosophical-fiction

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#20

“He thought about their anthem, You’ll Never Walk Alone, and felt worse.”
― J.L. Marrain, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

tags: character-moment, coming-of-age, contemporary-to-fantasy, emotional-journey, heart-on-page, leaving-home, loneliness, ya

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#21

“Do you ever wish you could… change things?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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#22

“The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: evolution, philosophy, science

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#23

“Nothing at first can appear more difficult to believe than that the more complex organs and instincts should have been perfected, not by means superior to, though analogous with, human reason, but by the accumulation of innumerable slight variations, each good for the individual possessor. Nevertheless, this difficulty, though appearing to our imagination insuperably great, cannot be considered real if we admit the following propositions, namely,— that gradations in the perfection of any organ or instinct, which we may consider, either do now exist or could have existed, each good of its kind,— that all organs and instincts are, in ever so slight a degree, variable,— and, lastly, that there is a struggle for existence leading to the preservation of each profitable deviation of structure or instinct. The truth of these propositions cannot, I think, be disputed.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

tags: evolution, natural-selection

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#24

“I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.”
― Brothers Grimm

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#25

“They are ordinarily men to whom forms are of paramount importance. Their field of action lies among the external phenomena of life. They possess the vast ability in grasping, and arranging, and appropriating to themselves the big, heavy, solid unrealities, such as gold, landed estate, offices of trust and emolument, and public honors. With these materials, and with deeds of goodly aspect, done in the public eye, an individual of this class builds up, as it were, a tall and stately edifice, which, in the view of other people, and ultimately in his own view, is no other than the man's character, or the man himself.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables

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#26

“Real football, you play with your feet, not your hands!”v”
― J L MARRAIN, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

tags: adventure-reads, book-quotes, dialogue, fantasy, humor, light-moment, teen-voice

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#27

“So, let me get this right. You invented this groundbreaking medical technology that changes the way we literally do everything in trauma and blood, and you are out here, 30.3 light-years away from Earth, on a planet where everyone involved in the Eden project was a hundred percent sure there’d be no DNA, blood, or anything? And now here we are playing with the DNA of an alien race? What is this? What is actually going on here?”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: alien-dna, bio-tech, deep-space, ethics-in-science, first-contact, genetic-engineering, hard-sci-fi, medical-sci-fi, science-gone-wrong, space-exploratio

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#28

“Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: philosophical-musings, reflection

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#29

“zravel is the epitome of expansion, connection, and discovery – both of the world and one-self”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: adventure-ready, life-and-style, meaningful-travel, personal-growth, travel-inspiration, travel-mindset, wanderlust

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#30

“Standing before her was the eleven-feet tall by fifteen-feet wide masterpiece, encased in a modern steel frame and protected behind glass.”
― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries

tags: art-in-fiction, art-lovers, book-quotes, gallery-vibes, immersive-reads, masterpiece-moment, museum-mystery, visual-writing

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