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#1

“The coast is a transition zone, always changing. It keeps on changing its dynamics, perpetually, in both space and time.”
― Sally Ann Hunter, Transfigured Sea

tags: emotions, exploring, mysterious, oceans, past, poems, sea, sea-creatures, sea-sprite, urban-fantasy

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#2

“attempting to write yourself as a protagonist in the life of someone else is psychotically narcissistic.”
― Malcolm Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life: A Guide to Creating Your Own Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions

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#3

“That was followed by Sharp saying, “Mick, it is Sharp here. I have an urgent fire mission for you. This is greatly bigger than I thought, and I just know that the Noggies will attack us soon! Request fire upon grid reference which will be given to you by Sunray Delta Six”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: bad, ethics, good, greed, sociology, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

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#4

“Had our concepts of sexuality been developed in a female-dominated society, our data shows it is not wild to think that sexuality would be viewed from the perspective of a preference for dominant versus submissive partners and not gender preference in partners (in such a world, there is a chance that gender preference would be as much of an afterthought as preferences for dominance or certain hair colors are today).”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist's Guide to Sexuality

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#5

“Before the first streaks of light at dawn on December 7, 275 miles north of Oahu, the six (Japanese) carriers of the Striking Force turned into the southeast wind. Pounding into heavy swells at high speed, the carriers pitched severely with thunderous impact. The wind, surging seas, and roar of warming aircraft engines made communications possible only by hand signals and handheld signal lamps. Salt spray reached the high flight decks, and Commander Fuchida, the group leader, was very concerned about the conditions for launching planes. If this had been a training exercise the launch might have been delayed until conditions improved. However, this was not an exercise, and there would be no delay.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

tags: army, destroy, diplomacy, exercise, hidden-secrets, insightful, soldiers, strategies, training, truth

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#6

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#7

“Leo: "So...giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evil espresso drinks. Gotcha. Maybe this isn't the best time to bring up my psycho babysitter."
Piper: "Is that another joke?”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

tags: leo-valdez, piper-mclean, psycho-babysitter, venti

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#8

“Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

tags: humor, philosophy, society

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#9

“Stories are a different kind of true.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

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#10

“Often when I imagine you,
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer,
and I am dark;
I am forest.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

tags: deer, forest, love, nature, poetry

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#11

“That is what we need more than anything. A sense of the law and the sense that there is someone to enforce it. Without that there is chaos.”
― Tim Butcher, Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country

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#12

“Photons also are highly conscious beings. They know when they’re being observed, and they know how to get to where they’re going, regardless of obstacles. If there is a pathway or many, the photon will know them all instantaneously and use them all. It exists in the quantum state and can be in more than one place at the same time. Its awareness is unlimited. It can synchronize itself with the quantum state of the universe.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

tags: collective, electromagnetic, energy-patterns, existence, frequencies, human-existence, module, spirituality, thought-waves, waves

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#13

“Satan’s breath be damned, the nasty beast is still in there.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: bloodshed, destruction, gripping, hope, intriguing, knight, mission, space, time-travel, turmoil

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#14

“There will be a time when I will answer everything, Avelyn. But it is far in the future for you.”
― Jack Borden, The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel

tags: character-growth, dark-lands, determination, dramatic, fantasy-series, heart-stopping, overcoming-fear, reluctant-hero, sacrifice, toadskunks

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#15

“She likes his wide, easy smile, the texture of his skin, the thick fair hair on his arms, almost like fur, the wholesome soapy smell of him. And she likes his height. He's taller by far than any British man she's been with; it's excessive, unnecessary, gorgeous. Invisibly, she sighs. Of course, she always knew it was temporary: that's the deal with G.I.'s.”
― Lesley Glaister, A Particular Man

tags: betrayal, emotional-thriller, fiction, grief, historical, mistakes, powerful, secrets, survivor-s-guilt, truth

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#16

“Oh shoot. That’s the kind of stuff that gets me in trouble. My Gram is right. I got a bad mouth.”
― R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach

tags: 1960s-america, childhood-fiction, childhood-friendships, emotional-depth, navigating-relationships, relatable, rural-charm, suburban-nostalgia, trust-and-betrayal, vivid

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#17

“You can’t have trust without fairness”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

tags: best-work, business, empower, goals, human-resource, insightful, leader, sentiment, suboptimal, workplace-experiences

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#18

“All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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#19

“Tonight, they’d make their stand, once and for all.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

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#20

“How am I supposed to decide this? How can I possibly stay without mom and dad? How can I leave without Teddy? Or Adam? This is too much. I don’t even understand how it all works, why I’m here in the state that I’m in or how to get out of it if I wanted to. If I were to say, I want to wake up, would I wake up right now? I’ve already tried snapping my heels to find Teddy and tried to beam myself to Hawaii, and that didn’t work. This seems a whole lot more complicated.
But in spite of that, I believe it’s true. I hear the nurse’s words again. I am running the show. Everyone’s waiting on me.
I decide. I know this now.
And this terrifies me more than anything else that has happened today.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

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#21

“She wasn't all that interested, as a reader, in the reader. She was still partial to that increasingly eclipsed entity: the writer. Madeleine had a feeling that most semiotic theorists had been unpopular as children, often bullied or overlooked, and so had directed their lingering rage onto literature. They wanted to demote the author. They wanted a book, that hard-won, transcendent thing, to be a text, contingent, indeterminate, and open for suggestions. They wanted the reader to be the main thing. Because they were readers.
Whereas Madeleine was perfectly happy with the idea of genius. She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

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#22

“How will the fact of being women have affected our lives? What precise opportunities have been given us, and which ones have been denied? What destiny awaits our younger sisters, and in which direction should we point them?”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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#23

“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

tags: bees, impermanence, insight, mujō, philosophy, stillness, time, 無常

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