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#1

“When you rebuild yourself to be the type of person you want to be, there are two versions of you that must be constructed: The “you” that exists within your own mind The “you” that exists in the minds of other people”
― Malcolm Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life: A Guide to Creating Your Own Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions

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#2

“I must admit that if there was ever going to be a woman to take my mind and heart off of Annette, it would have been Aideen.”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: death, dystopian, earth, excitement, fantasy, future, thrilling, unexpected, vibrations

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#3

“From now on the value of your life is wholly determined by you. Keep this sword close and remember, when a man learns to kill others he also learns how to die. And therefore, how to live.”
― Daniel Cuervonegro, Sins of the Maker

tags: conflict, different-worlds, dystopian, end-of-the-world, exciting, futuristic, galaxies, magical, survival, thrilling

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#4

“A good psychologist will take already-traumatic events in your life and work with you to contextualize them as non-traumatic. A bad psychologist will take non-traumatic events in your life and twist your narrative to both make them traumatic and connect them to your current problems. The problem is that good psychologists solve your issues while bad ones create dependency and thus recurring revenue streams.”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

tags: agnosticism, atheism, cultural-reactor, fortifying, ideas, learning, life, mistakes, rebuilding, traditional-cultures

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#5

“The girls walked into the long, empty hall, which sent out hollow echoes when the visitors spoke. From there Mr. March led them to the music room. The only furniture in it was an old-fashioned piano with yellowed keys and a thread-bare chair in front of it. Several other rooms on the first floor were empty and dismal. Heavy silken draperies, once beautiful, but now faded and worn, hung at some of the windows. The dining room still had its walnut table, chairs, and buffet, but a built-in corner cupboard was bare. “I sold the fine old glass and china that used to be in there,” Mr. March said to Nancy in a strained voice.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret in the Old Attic

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#6

“Then, slowly, it filled her. An urge, like none she had ever known, rose out of her depths, grew in her throat, and burst from her mouth in a primal scream of victory. She did it! At that moment, in a lonely valley in the middle of a vast continent, somewhere near the undefined boundary of the desolate northern loess steppes and the wetter continental steppes to the south, a young woman stood with a bone club in her hand—and felt powerful. She could survive. She would survive.”
― Jean M. Auel, The Valley of Horses

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#7

“There was nothing to compare with standing on a ice of land you owned free and clear. No one could push you off it, no one could take it from you, no one could tell you what to do with it.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

tags: ownership

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#8

“But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

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#9

“We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

tags: grace, madeleine-l-engle, walking-on-water

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#10

“thought, Lee wants a frontal assault. I guess he’ll have one. He turned to the messenger.”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

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#11

“One thing, though, was for sure – here I was, alive, healthy but as unquiet in my way as they were in theirs. Transcendent equality. You’ve got to love it.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: betrayal, dramatic, emotionally-charged, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, mystery, suspense, unpredictable

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#12

“ In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, fictional, horror, thriller

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#13

“Kurt, could you please serve this invoice upon the Prussian Pickle, the Major General von Trotha for the disrupting the legitimate working of F..H. Schmidt Engineering Services?”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: action, conflict, drama, educational, fiction, historical, insightful, justice, political-intrigue

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#14

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

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#15

“GLOBAL TEMPERATURES HAVE LOWERED BY ONE DEGREE. GLOBEWIDE NATURAL INGREDIENT SHORTAGE IN EFFECT AS OF THIS MESSAGE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

tags: absurd, conflicting-desires, desire, disorientation, existential-despair, exploring, freedom, self-doubt, unease, vivid

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#16

“When you’re in The System, like after being arrested, you’re no longer a participant. You’re being processed. Instead of an easy to ignore, well-greased cog, you become a sharp edge that needs to be ground down.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

tags: betrayal, city, culture, dark, new-york-city, ny, plots, tragedy, twists, vibrant

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#17

“At what point does faith become insanity?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, magic, mystery, past, wit

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#18

“He used his large shoulders and movements to impose his dominance over others as he strutted around but his facial expressions were a giveaway to people like Maeve who was born into a gritty group of native born fighting Irish. While many saw him as a man who worked his way up to power and influence and attained success that others fail to achieve, she saw him as a sham. He didn’t acquire loyalty by goodwill, but by corruption, fear, and loathing.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, noir-mystery, suspense, thriller

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#19

“If you can’t control it, fly with it.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

tags: cosmos, epic-fantasy, galaxy, humanoids, invader, melodramatic, planets, risk-taking, space-opera-science-fiction, warfare

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#20

“It’s inevitable. But we pretend it isn’t until that point where we can’t deny it anymore. Then we begin to repent.”
“Repent for our sins.” I nodded.
“No! We repent for the opportunities that we missed. The doors we should have walked through.”
― Michael Deeze, The Deathbed Confessions

tags: confessions, deathbed, fbi-agent, grey-morals, gripping, hidden, prison, serial-killers, suffering, thriller

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#21

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

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#22

“Horses make a landscape look beautiful.”
― Alice Walker

tags: animals, beauty, horses

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#23

“If you can’t make a girl come why even bother? That always seemed to me to be like writing questions in a letter.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

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#24

“I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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#25

“There was only the sound of the July-flies, which seems to be inside your head like it is the grind and whirr of the springs and cogs which are you and which will not stop no matter what you say until they are good and ready.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

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