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    Yvonne Korshak
    “We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: ancient-athens, fiction, history, immersive, literature, love, military-campaigns, philosophical
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    Diane Merrill Wigginton
    “She could see the headlines now.

    ‘Spinster dies alone in her condo. No one discovered her corpse for three days.’

    She had been so preoccupied with work, that she’d neglected to do the grocery shopping and was now regretting it.”
    ― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position
    tags: compelling, contemporary-romance, enemies-to-lovers, fun, literary-fiction, opposites-attract, rom-com, romance-literature, small-town-romance, suspense
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    K. Ritz
    “Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
                Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, tis fast in stone.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit
    893 likes

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    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Then wake up my sweet,  wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal.”
    ― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
    tags: american-historical-romance, emotions, friendship, historical-backdrop, human-emotions, love, powerful, resilience, romance, romantic-tension
    234 likes

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    Behcet Kaya
    “Jack? It’s Margeaux.”
    “My sister? Why would my sister be calling me? How did she get my number? Crazy questions blipped through my head. I knew she had married and was living in New Orleans, but we rarely spoke and have never been close by any means”
    “Margeaux?”
    “I’m calling from the police station. Dad was just brought in and I thought I should let you know.”
    “What! Why was he brought in?”
    “Jack, he’s been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. He drove himself into New Orleans to Quest Diagnostic for some blood tests and he was waiting to be called. Apparently, they took other people back that had come in after him. He got upset and made a scene. The staff tried to explain that those people all had appointments and he didn’t. He became so abusive, they called security, but before they even got there, Dad knocked down one of the technicians. That’s when they called the police. They came and took him.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate
    tags: crime-fiction, thriller
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  • #6
    Max Nowaz
    “He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
     ”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller
    283 likes

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    Merlin Franco
    “For those who choose the worldly way, tantra works wonders... It helps us transform our desires into divine experiences. Imagine sexuality as the gateway to moksha rather than a hindrance”
    ― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
    tags: enlightenment-quotes, hindu-inspirational-motivational, hinduism, self-awareness, selfdiscovery, sexuality-and-spirituality, sexuality-quotes, spiritual-liberation, tantra, tantra-sutra
    38 likes

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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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    Robert Ludlum
    “Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be.”
    ― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
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  • #10
    Julio Cortázar
    “(...) para pessoas como ela, o mistério começava exatamente com a explicação.”
    ― Julio Cortazar, Rayuela
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    Michael Crichton
    “Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
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  • #12
    Wally Lamb
    “Because what good’s confession without penance—right,”
    ― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “Destroy! destroy! destroy! hums the under-consciousness. Love and produce! Love and produce! cackles the upper consciousness. And the world hears only the Love-and- produce cackle. Refuses to hear the hum of destruction under- neath. Until such time as it will have to hear.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
    tags: d-h-lawrence, nathaniel-hawthorne, scarlet-letter
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  • #14
    “The estate was immaculate, but parts of it felt unused.
    Not neglected, exactly—just sealed. Like they’d been
    closed off intentionally.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: Secrets
    tags: emotionally-charged, emotions, evocative, intrigue, redemptive, self-actualisation, struggles, tension, thrilling, unpredictable
    51 likes

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    Todor Bombov
    “This book was under arrest, along with its author. This event occurred on March 27, 1986. During that time, the totalitarian system in East Europe was called socialism and even by the scientific nonsense and absurd names of Communism and Communist system. In this system, the official ideology was allegedly Marxism, but really it could not endure any Marxist criticism. Since this “socialist” system was afraid of the weapon of criticism, it applied criticism of the weapon against its own citizens, as Marx would have said.”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: economic-theory, economy, equality, freedom, humanity, liberty, new-government, politics, radical, state
    202 likes

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  • #16
    “I don't "lol". I tried it once but it just didn't agree with me.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: cynicism, humour, life, writers-life
    235 likes

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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Death is the ultimate test of faith.”
    ― 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
    358 likes

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    T. Rafael Cimino
    “Darwin is my copilot.”
    ― T. Rafael Cimino, A Battle of Angels
    tags: accident, atheism, conservatives, god, police, religion
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  • #19
    Michael Crichton
    “Absence of proof is not proof of absence.”
    ― Michael Crichton, The Lost World
    tags: proof
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    Lynne Truss
    “Writers jealous of their individual style are obliged to wring the utmost effect from a tiny range of marks – which explains why they get so desperate when their choices are challenged (or corrected) by copy-editors legislating according to a “house style”.”
    ― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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    Jacob Grimm
    “The judges were not satisfied with this answer, but they gave him the reward he deserved.”
    ― Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
    tags: grimm-s-complete-fairytales, sharing-joy-and-sorrow
    5 likes



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