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    Nancy Omeara
    “Educate not Legislate
    Refusing to pass unnecessary laws requires a converse – encouraging education and understanding. We started by slashing the salaries of legislators (Dubbed “Bloodbath on the Beltway”). That move provided funds to instigate incentive programs for high school teachers – to attract the best and brightest. The result was a generation of bright, energetic 18-year-olds graduating high-school, equipped to tackle the future.”
    ― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
    tags: america, american-history, culture, drama, educational, fiction, fictional-narratives, history, service, women-in-politics
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    J.B. Lion
    “You heard me. A creature from another world, a dark world, lurks the halls of Hellgate, tormenting victims at will. A grotesque, gnarled, twisted creature, with thick iron stakes impaled into its body, whip marks across its chest and back-- the beast got inside my brain.”
    ― J.B. Lion, The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity
    tags: action, fantasy, graphic-novel, illustrated-books, inequality, lifting-the-veil, mental-construct, sci-fi, social-structures, socioeconomics
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    “With Finn, Vic, and Maeve shooting darts at him, Buster thought better of bellyaching and took off down the street with Finn.”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: action, climatic, dramatic, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, mystery, profound, tense, unpredictable
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    Andri E. Elia
    “Is it still a fish cart when there’s no fish in it? When its false bottom is filled with children?”
    ― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
    tags: action, adventure, fantasy, fiction, intrigue, love, mystery, teen-ya, urban-fantasy, wizardry
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    Sara Pascoe
    “The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty, and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to make up its mind.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, historical-fantasy, magic, occult, supernatural, teenagers, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal, young-adult
    436 likes

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    John Rachel
    “You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.”
    ― John Rachel, Blinders Keepers
    tags: banana, calculus, chimpanzee, education, golden-rule, lyme-disease
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    Susan Rowland
    “If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: action, detective, fiction, fiction-novel, murder, realistic, thriller
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    M.L. Stedman
    “When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.”
    ― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.
    But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: love
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    Helen Fielding
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.”
    ― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
    tags: paraphrased
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    Heath Sommer
    “You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
    ― Heath Sommer
    tags: the-manufactured-identity
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    Betty Smith
    “People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    Ally Condie
    “Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.”
    ― Ally Condie, Reached
    tags: death, inspiring, painting, singing, writing
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