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    Max Nowaz
    “You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma
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    K. Ritz
    “Mead.
    O sweet elixir,
    Ye bless the lips and steal the wits.
     ”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, dramatic, engaging, exciting, fantasy, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit
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  • #3
    Steven Decker
    “They enjoyed ham and butter sandwiches for lunch and washed them down with carbonated iced tea.”
    ― Steven Decker, Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel
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    Shafter Bailey
    “Cindy Divine and her parents paused by their boat to take in the natural beauty. Lake Barkley could have been a top-paid model for a glossy postcard company that morning. It lay between little hills all dressed up in new green, and its mirror-like water reflected a cloudless sky everywhere except along the shoreline where the hills were upside down. Clusters of blossoms, dogwood and redbud, were scattered here and there on the hillsides, and a brightening red was coloring the sky along the eastern hilltops.”
    ― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings
    tags: abuse, childhood, courage, courtroom-drama, guardian-angel, hope, inspirational, miracles, overcoming-trauma, resilience
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The receiving radio operator immediately said, “Please tell Sunray Delta Six that Sunray Six is being located and informed immediately. Expect his answer very soon!” A short time later, Harry Smith was summoned to the HQ Delta Company radio. He went to it and was told, “Sir, Lieutenant Colonel Townsend is waiting to speak to you.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: documented, educational, history-resource, leaders, political-dictatorship, research, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam
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    Sara Pascoe
    “The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal
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    Herman Wouk
    “The clear intent of our law is to enable a man to live in the world and yet hold his faith close to his daily thoughts.”
    ― Herman Wouk, This is My God: A Guidebook to Judaism
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    Yann Martel
    “This tiny habitation on wheels, with bit parts of the living room, the washroom, and the fireplace, is a pathetic admission that human life is no more than this: an attempt to feel at home while racing towards oblivion. He”
    ― Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal
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    Irène Némirovsky
    “Lucile remembered something Lieutenant von Falk had told her in confidence: “The very first day we arrived,” he’d said, “there was a package of anonymous letters waiting for us at Headquarters. People were accusing one another of spreading English and Gaullist propaganda, of hoarding supplies, of being spies. If we’d taken them all seriously, everyone in the region would be in prison. I had the whole lot thrown on to the fire. People’s lives aren’t worth much and defeat arouses the worst in men. In Germany it was exactly the same.”
    ― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française
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    Rachel Carson
    “It was a house-that-Jack-built sequence, in which the large carnivores had eaten the smaller carnivores, that had eaten the herbivores, that had eaten the plankton, that had absorbed the poison from the water.”
    ― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
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  • #11
    “Tal vez ha sido bueno sufrir tanto, pues eso me hará más comprensiva y tolerante con el resto de la humanidad.”
    ― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice
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    Misty Mount
    “Blackness. Nothingness. It was in the shape of a giant, hazy shadow, enveloping me, swallowing me, and digesting me into the unknown. It was my biggest fear and my ultimate fate.”
    ― Misty Mount, The Shadow Girl
    tags: discovery, fantasy, friendship, introvert, invisible, isolated, lonely, mystery, teen-girl, young-adult
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