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#1

“We are greater than our problems and stronger than our adversaries, but these are the times that try a man to determine his core truths, and his faith.”
― Guy Morris, Swarm

tags: crime, danger, drama, fantasy, fast-paced, intrigue, noir-thriller, suspense, thriller

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#2

“Haroun shook his head. “This is not a thing for rifles. If they are seen there will be questions. For tonight we have daggers only.”
― Nigel Seed, No Road to Khartoum

tags: enemies, fighting, heroes, historical, history, infantry, infantrymen, races, sadness, war

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#3

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance

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#4

“The blue jay playing around the cabin means you are going to have plenty of good times and fun. The blue jay is a clown and bounces on the ends of branches and turns flips and teases other birds.”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

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#5

“The steps leading to the porch looked worn, cracked, and unpainted, ready for a nice hot fire.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#6

“I’m rediscovering my backbone, which is a good start.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

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#7

“And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle...”
― Tennessee Williams

tags: a-streetcar-named-desire, blanche

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#8

“There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity, and to every idea we have of moral justice, as any thing done by Robespierre, by Carrier, by Joseph le Bon, in France, by the English government in the East Indies, or by any other assassin in modern times. When we read in the books ascribed to Moses, Joshua, etc., that they (the Israelites) came by stealth upon whole nations of people, who, as the history itself shews, had given them no offence; that they put all those nations to the sword; that they spared neither age nor infancy; that they utterly destroyed men, women and children; that they left not a soul to breathe; expressions that are repeated over and over again in those books, and that too with exulting ferocity; are we sure these things are facts? are we sure that the Creator of man commissioned those things to be done? Are we sure that the books that tell us so were written by his authority?

...The Bible tells us, that those assassinations were done by the express command of God. And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo every thing that is tender, sympathising, and benevolent in the heart of man. Speaking for myself, if I had no other evidence that the Bible is fabulous, than the sacrifice I must make to believe it to be true, that alone would be sufficient to determine my choice.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

tags: assassin, assassinations, bible, command, destruction, east-indies, english, evidence, ferocity, france, horror, israelites, joseph-le-bon, joshua, moses, no-mercy, offense, robespierre, sacrifice, the-bible

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#9

“Poor bastard. Wait 'till he sees the bats. ”
― Hunter S. Thompson

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#10

“She must feel like Lucifer’s frigid breath is running down the back of her delicate neck.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#11

“Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern.”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: action, ancestry, discovery, family, family-history, future, history, literary-fiction, love, suspense

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#12

“Nothing can invade our being without our permission. It is energetically impossible. We can be confident in our eternal being of infinite abilities of every kind, limited only by our imagination, emotional spectrum and personal beliefs and perspectives. These are all things that can be resolved, as our conscious awareness greatly expands in understanding and can create experiences in the spectrum of beauty, joy and love.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

tags: consciousness, cosmos, energetics, photons, quantum-energetics, quantum-energy, quantum-theory, science, spirituality, vibrations

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#13

“Pay attention. The momentum of change is building.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: awakening, don-t-give-up, empower, energy, introspective, laugh, luck, personal-development, risks, struggle

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#14

“What do you mean, a goddess?” Alec questioned irritably.
“She’s staggeringly beautiful, wonderful, a vision of …” He petered out when he saw Alec looking at him strangely. Father Joe stroked his beard in thought, nervously eyeing Alec and then casting his eyes to the fireplace. Alec was beginning to sense Father Joe was regretting coming to his flat. He was also thinking that he regretted having anything to do with the vicar. He was quite mad … possibly.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

tags: crime-solving-duo, dark-secrets, flawed-protagonist, historical-mystery, intrigue, journalistic-ethics, london-fiction, nazi-crimes, poetic-prose, romantic-tension

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#15

“Choir is the one time of day when he lets down his guard; there is peace in the strict concentration that Faughnan demands of all of them, in the sweet dissonance of voices in chorus. He has sung in here since he was a freshman. Faughnan is a serious student of music; also, a perfectionist of the sternest sort, who cares about nobody, about nothing other than the music. His shirt sleeves rolled to the elbows, his tie undone, he drives them. Every minute of every hour that is spent there, they work, and there is only one way to prove yourself. You sing, and sing, and sing. All else is unimportant.”
― Judith Guest

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#16

“The worn soles of Daffy's boots skidded on the icy stones. He'd been saving up for a new pair for Christmas, but then he'd come across an encyclopaedia in ten volumes, going cheap. Boots might last ten years, at best, but knowledge was eternal.”
― Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin

tags: books, knowledge

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#17

“Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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#18

“There they go.
Look at those dogs go!
Why are they going fast in those cars?
What are they going to do?
Where are those dogs going?”
― P.D. Eastman, Go, Dog. Go!

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#19

“Fake things can't really happen.”
― Robert Munsch, Aaron's Hair

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#20

“Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don’t want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.”
― Susanna Kaysen

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#21

“It was the worst moment of my life, to realize she was really gone, never to return.”
Tara does not know what it would be like to have lived with the same person, loved the same person, for so many years, and suddenly have them not be with you ever again.”
― dawn chalker, Lost and Found

tags: darkness, drama, dreams, heartbreak, hurt, life, loss, love, sad, triumph

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#22

“Maybe you should be the one to get naked for me. 'Breslin Cooper's Revealing Interview. Take a peek at the real ass inside those hot baseball pants.”
― J. Rose Black, Chasing Headlines

tags: american-romance, drama, excitement, exciting, fiction, griping, intrigue, romance, romantic-fiction, thrilling

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#23

“When the light reached its zenith, the group of 1,000 Travelers down below could no longer be seen. Suddenly, the intense light ceased to be, returning the lighting of the stadium to a normal level. Dani felt a moment of disorientation, but she soon recovered and looked down at an empty stadium.”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain

tags: adventure, compelling, complex, fiction, metaphysical, romance, sci-fi, science, science-fiction, time-travel

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#24

“Serving” is assisting your fellow man, the how-to, practical way to thrust your life into the spiritual wall to make the tunnel bigger. Will God suddenly appear? Does washing stacks of pots and pans bring salvation?
Can pulling weeds reclaim your brain? Will mopping the floor make you equal to the richest of men?”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: belief, empathy, equality, god, inner-love, love, self-healing, spiritual, thinking, thought-provoking

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#25

“… the primitive comprehension that the state property represents a social one, their identification, and their equalization could not resist the criticism of the time. The state property is not socialism. The state-monopoly property, as it was on the both sides of the Berlin Wall and which continues to be such one even after it dropped down, is not social property. There was never and nowhere any socialism! In the twentieth century, we passed through a system of utopian socialism as proof that this was not socialism that was not possible, but the utopia of the writers before Marx and after Marx. We were visited by a utopian socialism, which at the contemporary stage is simply capitalism—state, monopolistic.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: civil-society, democratic, freedom, justice, liberty, monopolistic, myth, oppression, society, totalitarian-system

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#26

“The weather was as ready as the school and campus. The sky was cloudless and the temperature was expected to top out at 76 degrees. Early morning mowers had sugared the air with the fragrance of freshly mowed grass.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

tags: divine-miracles, extraordinary-leadership, fighting-adversity, heartwarming-tale, human-redemption, redemptive-journey, societal-issues-resolved, speaking-truth, transformative-journey, voice-of-truth

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#27

“Faith continued, “My uncle brought Aleana to the house last autumn, September I think. She didn’t stay long, but she was nice, my mother and I liked her. My mother, Lachlan’s sister, and I both work for my uncle, looking after the house. You must be her friend Raimund. She talked about you and told me to look out for you. She was certain you would come to find her.”
― Robert Reid, The Thief

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#28

“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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#29

“If I were a scientist watching her, what would I write down as the results? Woman who had neglectful/scary childhood finds comfort in fictional representations of families?”
― Sara Pascoe, Faber Faber Weirdo Intense, also BRILLIANT, funny and forensically astute. Marian Keyes.

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#30

“Out of nowhere, one of the twins grabbed my cap while the other delivered a blow to my head. She slapped the taste right out of my mouth. I couldn’t even feel my tongue. I spun around to face my bullies. The twins had become triplets. I couldn’t remember ever trying to drink three glasses of anything and this wouldn’t be the day to try.”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

tags: chaos, deeper-understanding, hope, life-lessons, struggle, trauma, true-story, truth, understanding

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