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    Frank Lambert
    “The girl looked up to the ceiling and just before she disappeared completely she spoke one last time. ‘They made him eat more flesh,’ she said. ‘Not dead flesh this time. They made him eat the flesh from something that was still alive. He ate flesh from the creature who wept at night.”
    ― Frank Lambert, Xyz
    tags: action, creatures, death, friendship, ghost, horrifying, horror, suspense, trilogy
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    K. Ritz
    “This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, engaging, exciting, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery
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    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Only someone watching him closely like Celena would have noticed his intense preoccupation, and that something in a split second had happened to him.  She wondered where he had gone when he should have been listening to the sermon, where his soul had gone went it had left his body.”
    ― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
    tags: drama, fiction, historical-victorian-romance, history, intrigue, literary-romance, love, romance
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    “I’ll tell the Chief and he’ll squash you like the little flea-ridden castrated cock you are.”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, noir-mystery, suspense, thriller
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    John Rachel
    “Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.”
    ― John Rachel
    tags: cultural-relativism, feminism, incarceration, women, womens-lib
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “We had old architects and were working with what we had on hand. You’ve hired this new, young architect now, and, Pericles, I’m going to build you a statue of Athena—all gold and ivory, think of that, Pericles—and taller than our city walls.” Pericles raised his eyes toward the birds.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: ancient-greece, conflict, drama, educational, greek-gods, iction, insightful, love-story, romance, spartans
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    Andri E. Elia
    “We Yandar are winged. We don’t succumb to adversity; we fly with it.”
    ― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
    tags: action-and-adventure, adventure-fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fiction-writing, love, magical, mystery, sci-fi, universe
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    Tom Clancy
    “For the Marines, it validated their claim of “first to fight.” They were the first Allied ground force to take the offensive against Axis forces in World War II, a point they still take pride in today.”
    ― Tom Clancy, Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit
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    Alan Brennert
    “And sometimes she would dream again of being Namakaokahai'i, her waves rolling across burled coral beds, scattering moonlight, cresting higher and higher the farther she traveled over the reef. She was a colossus of water and motion soaring toward the black crescent of 'Awahuua Bay, her soul perched on the curling lip of the wave, riding it in the only way she could now; she felt the mana, the power in her waves, felt the rumble in her ocean depths.....”
    ― Alan Brennert, Moloka'i
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    Louise Fitzhugh
    “Harriet: Is it fun being married?
    Ole Golly: How should I know? I've never been married. However, I doubt it's all fun. Nothing ever is, you know.”
    ― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy
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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “Опитвам се да го утеша. Ала той гледа встрани. Думите ми не го убеждават, но поне на мен ми олеква. Но нали така е винаги, когато утешаваш.”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back
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    Joseph Conrad
    “A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
    tags: equality, simplicity
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    Charles Bukowski
    “You are thirty minutes late."
    "Yes."
    "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?"
    "No."
    "Why not, pray tell?"
    "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
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