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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Notation on Quark Manipulation as Applied to the Time/Space Continuum.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: action, compelling, different-worlds, family-love, fiction, hero, marriage, power, romance, thrilling
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    Sara Pascoe
    “When I'm hung-over I try to imagine being old and look- ing back fondly on now, on this bit I'm currently living, and how in retrospect it might seem adventurous. In the future when I only ever sit in a chair because I'm too gnarled for pleasure or movement I'll remember when I stayed out all night and had life-changing conversations and walked all the way home because I lost my phone.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo
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    “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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    “The violence of nature masks the beauty and joy that hide just beneath the surface.”
    ― Jack Borden, The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel
    tags: avelyn, family-bonds, immersive, mythical-creatures, sacred-magic, self-discovery, strong-female-protagonist, sword-of-light, thrilling, ya-fantasy
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    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
    “Low employee engagement is a symptom of a suboptimal workplace culture”
    ― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
    tags: empathy, employees, evidence-based, full-potential, guidebook, improving, leadership, non-fiction, social-contract, structure
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    “Martha Beacon’s honey bee sun tea? Of course, I can make it. Martha Beacon thinks she invented it. Everyone around here has been making it for centuries. Can I make Martha Beacon’s honey bee sun tea? The very gall of her. Is that what you want?”
    ― R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach
    tags: acceptance, acceptance-of-change, generational-divides, generational-homes, hope, lessons-from-loss, navigating-change, personal-struggles, rural-fiction, thought-provoking
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
    tags: drama, exciting, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, page-turner, past, politics, present
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
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    Jostein Gaarder
    “History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
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    Robyn Mundell
    “Be patient with him. If the same quality did not exist in you, you wouldn’t notice it in him.”
    ― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker
    tags: be-patient, brain, middle-grade, personality-trait, quality, science, science-fiction, scientist
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    Franz Kafka
    “What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
    tags: change, dreams, reality, surprise
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    Shirley Jackson
    “In my own experience, contacts with the big world outside the typewriter are puzzling and terrifying; I don’t think I like reality very much. Principally, I don’t understand people outside; people in books are sensible and reasonable, but outside there is no predicting what they will do.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
    tags: books, human-contact, interaction, life, reading, reality, socializing
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