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    Rich DiSilvio
    “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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    JoDee Neathery
    “A wise man, my father, always said, a bitter root bears bitter fruit and then he’d point to the crucifix on the mantel adding . . . he’s the only one who had the right to be bitter and wasn’t.”
    ― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush
    tags: action, action-thriller, anger, family-life, favorites, fiction, forgiveness, pain
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The Minister of Army answered, “Bob, I thought that you would have been an astute and clever enough a politician to think of this yourself, but seeing how you have asked me, I suggest that you wait until eight in the night on Thursday 29/April/1965 to announce that Australia will send the First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment to fight in South Vietnam. By you waiting until the evening of 29/April/1965 to announce this in Parliament, the labour opposition leader of Arthur Caldwell and his deputy leader of Gough Whitlam should be absent, as will be most of the entire parliament, because the following day is the beginning of a long week-
    end. You are legally not required to give advanced warning to the house, so you can easily get away with this!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, vietnam, war, war-recount
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    K. Ritz
    “Stupid or no, Father, you’re dead – and I’m not.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: character-voice, dark-humor, defiance, family-wounds, fantasy, grit, survival, trauma-echo
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    “Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: bitterness, cruelty, ironies
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    J.L. Marrain
    “The grass was plush under his feet as he flew down the right flank of the field.”
    ― J L MARRAIN, THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER
    tags: action, adventure, book-quotes, character-driven, determination, fantasy, page-turner, ya-reads
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    Lin Wilder
    “We fiction writers have a responsibility when creating a character; he or she must sit beside us as we read the story. If she isn’t, we haven’t done our job. Therefore, writing Dr. T’s character forced a plunge into places I had no interest in going. A person like Adam Turner would not have come into this beautiful world looking for a kid to control, manipulate, or wreck. There had to be a reason- that created massive psychic wounds.”
    ― Lin Wilder
    tags: big-theme-energy, justice-matters, legal-thriller, must-read, stand-for-something, thought-provoking, truth-wins
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    Max Nowaz
    “They could be totally ignored by Earth without infringing on their lifestyle because of the vastness of the planet.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
    tags: book-quotes, future-earth, isolation, sci-fi, space-opera, speculative-fiction, worldbuilding
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    Susan Rowland
    “Their branches shook as if trying to dislodge beetles crawling up their bony arms.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders
    tags: atmospheric-reads, dark-fairytale-vibes, gothic-mood, london-nature, mystery-series, nature-imagery, urban-fantasy
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    John C. Waugh
    “withered vine memories
hang
from the old house
do i exist?
 who’s asking”
    ― John C. Waugh, busted haiku
    tags: existential, identity, introspective, literary-poetry, memory, natureimage, poetry, quiet-intensity
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    Sara Pascoe
    “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
    ― Sara Pascoe
    tags: anatole-france, animal-love, animal-lovers, book-quotes, family-read, heartwarming-reads, pet-bond
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    “Debbie doesn’t want to read a book.”
    ― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words
    tags: kids-books, parents-of-readers, picture-book, reading-feels, reluctant-reader, storytime, teachers-of-instagram
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    Helen Fielding
    “Oh, Tuhan. Besok Hari Valentine. Mengapa? Mengapa? Mengapa seluruh dunia diperlengkapi untuk menjadikan orang yang tidak terlibat asmara merasa tolol, padahal semua orang tahu percintaan tidak berjalan lancar.




    Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding hlm.76”
    ― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
    tags: bridget-jones-diary, helen-fielding
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    Junot Díaz
    “The beauty! The beauty!”
    ― Junot Diaz, La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao
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    Aldous Huxley
    “What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess: a Novel
    tags: expression, language, words
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Cuando uno extraña un lugar, lo que realmente extraña es la época que corresponde a ese lugar; no se extrañan los sitios, sino los tiempos.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: exchange-students
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    Irène Némirovsky
    “But why are we always the ones who have to suffer?” she cried out in indignation. “Us and people like us? Ordinary people, the lower middle classes. If war is declared or the franc devalues, if there’s unemployment or a revolution, or any sort of crisis, the others manage to get through all right. We’re always the ones who are trampled! Why? What did we do? We’re paying for everybody else’s mistakes. Of course they’re not afraid of us. The workers fight back, the rich are powerful. We’re just sheep to the slaughter. I want to know why!”
    ― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française
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    K. Ritz
    “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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    George Critchlow
    “You could fight, take drugs, maybe even kill—but the behavior had to be confined to the inside of the prison. You could not escape.”
    ― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege
    tags: carceral-reality, gritty-nonfiction, human-condition, justice-reform, nonfiction, prison-memoir, real-life-drama, survival, systems, true-story
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    Susan Rowland
    “He smelled of rain, as if he had blown in on the wind, thought Mary.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders
    tags: moody-fiction
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    “Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: editing, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing
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    Anastasia Pash
    “In a world where every item in your suitcase must earn its place to avoid breaching the weight limit, you must master the art of efficient packing.”
    ― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules
    tags: capsule-wardrobe, carry-on-life, light-packing, luggage-limits, packing-tips, travel-essentials, travel-smarter
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    “Theo, always remember that if you’ve learned something useful and haven’t put it into practice, it’s not ‘knowledge,’ it’s just ‘information.’ Information becomes knowledge only when it finds an application in real life. That is very important to remember.”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh
    tags: alexandermorpheigh, appliedwisdom, bookquotes, innerwork, lifelonglearning, mindfulreading, philosophicalfiction, thepythagorean
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    J.L. Marrain
    “This was getting worse by the minute.”
    ― J L MARRAIN, THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER
    tags: adventure, book-quotes, fantasy, high-stakes, page-turner, relatable, tension
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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “The moisture in the air sat in the crevices of storefront windows, like the tears that welled in the corners of her dark brown eyes.”
    ― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
    tags: coming-of-age, emotional-reads, grief, historical-fiction, lyrical-prose, strong-heroine, venice
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    Joseph A. Anderson
    “He falls further into darkness. The stinging pain of daily torture and the numbing cold hardly bother him now, and he relishes the thought that soon he might disappear entirely. Then Lylitte is there in his thoughts again, and the splitting pain brings him back into this life, and again, only one thing eases the torment: winding further out of existence.”
    ― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b
    tags: broken-heroes, character-driven, dark-sci-fi, descent-into-darkness, existential-fiction, griefin-fiction, mind-and-memory, psychological-sci-fi, survival-story, trauma-in-fiction
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    Sara Pascoe
    “I appreciate that, Joey. It’s just that I’ve come to enjoy being more of an animal. At least a bit”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
    tags: animalperspective, belonging, familystories, fictional, identity, kidlit, middlegrade, selfdiscovery, talkinganimals
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    Gregory Maguire
    “It’s the age of daring. It’s the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: inspirational
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    Thomas Paine
    “O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but
    the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.
    Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa,
    have long expelled her.?Europe regards her like a stranger, and England
    hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in
    time an asylum for mankind.”
    ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
    tags: freedom, opposition, oppression, rebel
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