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    Michael Phillip Cash
    “I’m being haunted by Gaspar the Friendly Ghost.”
    ― Michael Phillip Cash, The After House
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    Carl Novakovich
    “Beth looks to Steven, "You should have stayed in Hell.”
    ― Carl Novakovich, The Watchers: The Tomb
    tags: action, dark, dark-fantasy, demonic, fantasy, fantasy-novel, occult-mystery
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    M.R. Noble
    “There are two types of men, Karolina. The ones who can admire the greatness of the little flower. Or the ones who try to control it.”
    ― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes
    tags: avenger, dark-magic, falsely-accused, fantasy, magical-world, mythical-creatures, on-the-run, romance, underworld, vampires
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    Behcet Kaya
    “There were no clues left by the murderer inside the judge’s chambers. No fingerprints. Nothing. The only thing found that was out of the ordinary was a single strand of long auburn hair on the window ledge. A single strand of hair from an unknown female. All dead ends. From my initial perspective, the police were as thorough as they could have been.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge
    tags: crime, dramatic, murder, suspense-fiction, thriller
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    Emma Thomas
    “I look her in the eyes. ‘Words are just words. It’s the meaning of the words that determines how you feel about something. Feelings evoke emotions and make others feel something by what you say. You could say flatly, ‘I love you,’ or you could look someone in the eye and say, with a different tone of voice, ‘I love you.’ Which of those actually sounds like you love someone? That’s why it’s definitely how you say it.”
    ― Emma Thomas, Live for Me
    tags: bipolar, confusion, dreams, fiction, hope, learning, living-with-mental-illness, love, mental-illness, quirky
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Through me the way into the suffering city,
    Through me the way into eternal pain,
    Through me the way that runs among the lost.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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    Italo Calvino
    “what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.”
    ― Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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    Daphne du Maurier
    “...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced and ran upon the beaches. Then that same impulse to flight seized upon them too. Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill themselves of motion before winter came.”
    ― Daphne du Maurier, The Birds and Other Stories
    tags: autumn, birds, seabirds, winter
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    “There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.”
    ― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
    tags: past, present, sybil
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    Władysław Szpilman
    “The life of a human being, let alone his personal freedom, is a matter of no importance. But the love of freedom is native to every human being and every nation, and cannot be suppressed in the long term. History teaches us that tyranny has never endured. And now we have blood-guilt on our conscience for the dreadful injustice of murdering the Jewish inhabitants.”
    ― Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
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    Nikolas Schreck
    “Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable.”
    ― Nikolas Schreck
    tags: left-hand-path, magic, magick, occult, seth
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    Barry Kirwan
    “He glanced at Sally. She sat on the edge, her feet dangling over the two-hundred-foot drop, just like he’d done all those years ago, secretly hoping his parents would tell him to come back, that it was dangerous. They never even got out of the car.”
    ― Barry Kirwan, When the children come
    tags: action, scared, thriller
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The artillery fire which helped in holding off the enemy advance against the Australian positions appeared to be getting always closer. A radio operator called Vic Grice somehow replaced the antenna on Buick’s radio. That had been shot off, thus rendering the radio in-operational.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, vietnam, war, war-recount
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    Primo Levi
    “She had asked the older women: "What is that fire?" And they had replied: "It is we who are burning.”
    ― Primo Levi
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    H.G. Wells
    “They were all intensely excited, and all overflowing with noisy expressions of their loyalty to the Law. Yet I felt an absolute assurance in my own mind that the Hyena-Swine was implicated in the rabbit-killing. A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.”
    ― H G Wells
    tags: the-island-of-dr-moreau
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    Richard Dawkins
    “The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Virgil
    “But you, Roman, must remember that you have to guide the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to graft tradition onto peace, to shew mercy to the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
    tags: authority, conquest, empire, fate
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    Sun Tzu
    “If you do not take opportunity   to   advance and reward   the   deserving,   your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: business, strategy, war
    28 likes



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