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#1

“If he could blush through his fur, he would have.”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

tags: action, animals, conflict, mountains, nature, pain, relationships, tense, violence, ya-fantasy

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#2

“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
― Sara Pascoe

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#3

“You don’t think he’s our man?” asked Adam. It occurred to him that Ramsbottom was not exactly forthcoming with information.
“I didn’t say that,” Ramsbottom said. “In fact he is behaving very cautiously indeed, which makes me feel very suspicious.”
“He has probably figured out that you are following him,” said Adam. “One can hardly fail to notice you hanging around all the time.”
“That may be so,” said Ramsbottom.
“Can’t you get a disguise or something?” asked Adam. “So he does not recognise you.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#4

“Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
            Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit

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#5

“I think this is a good start.” Alpine started collecting his notes and placing them into his briefcase. “I’ll meet with you again tomorrow morning and we’ll start plotting strategy. This is out of your hands, so just try to relax and let me do my job.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

tags: murder, mystery, private-investigator, suspense

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#6

“an ascetic might be a pauper, but he has ashrams where love, happiness, and prosperity overflow.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

tags: ascetic-life, asceticism, happiness-quotes, hermitage, renunciation, sage-advice, spiritual-development-quotes, spiritual-growth

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#7

“I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace.
But this time, he refused to let her go. "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me! What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you by 130 pounds, how could you possibly be afraid of me!" He laughed.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: american-historical-romance, drama, historical-romance, passion, passionate, romance, tense, torment, victorian-romance

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#8

“A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.”
― Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market – Inside the Underground Economy: Tycoons, Technology, and Power

tags: observation, social-commentary

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#9

“Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love”
― Publius Ovidius Naso

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#10

“He said there is a place in Gaul, the oldest church in their part of the world, where some of the Latin monks have outwitted death by secret means. He offered to sell me their secrets, which he has inscribed in a book."
The abbot shudders. "God preserve us from such heresies," he says hastily. "I am certain, my son, that you refused this temptation."
Dracula smiles. "You know I am fond of books.”
― Elizabeth Kostova

tags: dracula

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#11

“in the cartoon of Sight. It”
― Tracy Chevalier, The Lady and the Unicorn

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#12

“What would it be like to pick and choose the objects and stories that would go into your own cabinet?”
― Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck

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#13

“Scarlett (O'Hara) taught that one could be hungry and despairing, but not broken and not without resources, spiritual in nature, that precluded one from surrendering without a fight”
― Pat Conroy

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#14

“Has commerce hitherto done anything more than change the objects of war? Is not the love of wealth as domineering and enterprising a passion as that of power or glory? Have there not been as many wars founded upon commercial motives since that has become the prevailing system of nations, as were before occasioned by the cupidity of territory or dominion? Has”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

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#15

“Maggy said.”
― Nancy E. Turner, The Water and the Blood

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#16

“The Audi tires squealed as the vehicle tracked the same path. Jake hammered down the avenue, hunting for a getaway. Traffic thickened at the juncture ahead. A green light flickered into amber. He ramped up over the limit, punching over the white lines on a red signal.
Tires screeched and a horn beeped. The needle sat on one hundred kilometers per hour. He fishtailed at a laneway. The GPS showed a right angle, car slid into a slot in an overhang. Jake got out and crept toward the opening, hugged the brick wall. He pulled the SIG and flicked off the safety.
The Audi braked at the mouth. Door slammed. A shadow fell over the concrete. The swish of clothing indicated a possible weapon draw.”
― Simon W. Clark

tags: action-packed, chase, covert, espionage, kill-or-be-killed, minutes-to-live, spy-thriller, stealth, undercover, weapons-drawn

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#17

“Once a story you’ve regarded as true has turned false, you begin suspecting all stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

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#18

“..you have more than you know. And people will want what you have.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

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#19

“A soul is a thing so impalpable, so often useless and sometimes such a nuisance, that the loss of it disturbed me less than if I had lost my visiting card while taking a walk.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Chromosome Number 12

tags: soul

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#20

“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: books, reading

1705 likes

#21

“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: goodness, milan-kundera

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#22

“You shall forget that I am part of an enemy army, I shall forget that you are a woman who spends much of her time working out how to subvert that army, and we shall just . . . be two people?”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

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#23

“But I started to realize that it doesn't begin like this, that anybody can be the target for prejudice, all you have to be is "too" something . Too short, too fat, too clever, too big, too small, too slow, too new, "too different" from what others think of as normal.”
― Bryce Courtenay, Tandia

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#24

“Prawdziwie elegancka dama dłubie w nosie tylko gdy jest całkiem sama.”
― Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Goes on Board

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#25

“How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

tags: kindness, poverty, sadness, starve, starving

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#26

“I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

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#27

“In the ignorance that implies the impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

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#28

“Faced with the blazing magnificence of the everyday, the artist is both humbled and provoked. There are photographs now of events on an unimaginable scale [...] When we look at these images, there is, yes, legitimate wonderment at our own lengthening reach and grasp. But it would be vain indeed to praise our puny handiwork--the mastery of the Hubble wielders, the computer enhancers, the colorizers, all the true-life-fantasist counterparts of Hollywood's techno-wizards and imagineers--when the universe is putting on so utterly unanswerable a show. Before the majesty of being, what is there to do but hang our heads?”
― Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

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#29

“Jonathan Kozol is of this school when he writes, “School is in business to produce reliable people.”17 Paulo Freire of Brazil puts it this way: “It would be extremely naïve to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.”18 Henry Giroux, Freire’s leading disciple”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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#30

“I want satisfaction. I want revenge. Even if the only result is getting to feel self-satisfied, I want to strike a blow against this country. That's all.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

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