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#1

“The lure of deep water and gathering night, held in the mystery I kneel to taste at the earth altar.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: contemplative-poetry, dark-beauty, deep-water, earth-altar, mystery, poetry, sacred-ritual, spiritual-longing

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#2

“Rivers don’t sleep,
 dark forests rise,
 sodden roots shatter 
the concrete prison.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: dark-forest, elemental-imagery, lyrical-intensity, nature-power, poetry, resistance, untamed-life, wild-earth

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#3

“Welcome the womb, seed and flower, welcome the timeless, welcome the hour.
Welcome the grieving, all who mourn, welcome the earth, welcome the dawn.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: contemplativewriting, griefandhealing, mourningandhope, poeticprayer, poetry, sacredearth, spiritualreflection, timelessbeauty

80 likes

#4

“People leave Los Angeles because the county is a breeding ground for violent murders. You stay and flourish in Los Angeles because the county is a hotbed for homicides.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: action-packed, adventure, ear, exciting, fiction, full-package, heroes, intrigue, secrets, suspense

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#5

“Your reckless streak will be your best friend or your worst enemy.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: action, adventure, danger, heat, love, mafia, relationships, romance, underworld, violence

89 likes

#6

“Melvin exited the hardware store, shuffled his feet into the darkness of the night that matched the blackness in his heart.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: adventure, drama, excitement, exciting, fiction, intrigue, love, passion, sex, thrilling

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#7

“Determined, Natalie stood up, took a firm stance, saw the face she’d pieced together in her mind of bad boy Tobias Trent Rutherford. She fired five consecutive rounds; blew his face away five times.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: adventure, excitement, exciting, fast-paced, fear, full-on, gripping, intrigue, sex, thrilling

44 likes

#8

“She’d never shied away from a challenge before, no matter how loudly her self-doubt had screamed.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: character-growth, courage, fishing-life, fly-fishing, quote-of-the-day, resilience, self-doubt, self-doubt-quotes, sports, sports-fiction

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#9

“Now Isla Plata was to fishing as Nantucket was to whaling: a memory of a bygone era.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: coastal-fiction, eco-fiction, environmental, fishing, fishing-fiction, marine-conservation, quote, sports-fiction, thought-provoking-reads

137 likes

#10

“You create a winning team by combining a guide who can find the fish that don’t want to be found with an angler who can catch the fish that don’t want to be caught.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: angler, competitive, fish, fishing, fly-fishing, sports, sports-fiction, teamwork

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#11

“When a team is winning, the guides credit the angler and the anglers credit the guide.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: angler, fiction, fly-fishing, quotes, sports-fiction, sportsmanship, teamwork

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#12

“He loved the eternal feeling of being on the water, in the zone, day after day as if time had stopped.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: fishing-fiction, fishing-quotes, flow-state, fly-fishing, outdoor-adventure, sports-fiction

133 likes

#13

“Nonna was steady and safe and always took a strong lead.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: comfort-read, coming-of-age, found-family, grandmother-bond, historical-fiction, resilience, women-supporting-women

343 likes

#14

“It hardly felt real that she was gone, though the heavy pain Agata had carried for weeks reminded her, sitting like too many sweets in her stomach; that and the black fabric, the black everywhere.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: coming-of-age, emotional-reads, grief, healing-journey, historical-fiction, loss, lyrical-prose

257 likes

#15

“She learned that keeping up and working hard paid dividends inside the Pietà, unavailable to women outside it.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: ambition, coming-of-age, growth, historical-fiction, pieta, resilience, self-determination, women-in-history

183 likes

#16

“The moisture in the air sat in the crevices of storefront windows, like the tears that welled in the corners of her dark brown eyes.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: coming-of-age, emotional-reads, grief, historical-fiction, lyrical-prose, strong-heroine, venice

595 likes

#17

“I felt calm well, maybe not calm but safe. For the first time during a Montana thunderstorm, I did feel safe.”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: comfort-reads, coming-of-age, courage, emotional-fiction, healing, new-beginnings, rural-life, safety

205 likes

#18

“the next obvious question that lay lurking like a black storm cloud over my head: If I wasn’t to live with the Jeongs, then where would I go? And with whom?”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: belonging, coming-of-age, emotional-reads, found-family, historical-fiction, hope-and-fear, thought-provoking, uncertainty

135 likes

#19

“Try not to worry, honey. We’ll take very good care of Dimwit, and I have a good feeling that we’ll be calling you to come pick him up in no time. In the meantime, I’ll call you every evening with a report on how he’s doing.”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: animal-lovers, comfort-reads, community-care, found-family, heartwarming, hope, kindness, small-town-support

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#20

“Maybe, I thought, just maybe he’s starting to get used to having me around.”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: belonging, coming-of-age, found-family, grandparent-bond, heartwarming, hope, slow-burn-healing, tender-moments

77 likes

#21

“Money is a tool, never the master. A Wealthy Soul uses money to serve God and people, not the other way around.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: biblical-money, christian, christian-living, faith-and-finances, faith-based-books, financial-wisdom, generous-living, kingdom-purpose, money-mindset, purposeful-wealth

198 likes

#22

“The world will try to make you efficient at meaningless things—busy, polished, perfectly useless. Don't fall for it. Efficiency is only noble when it serves purpose.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: intentional-living, life-guide, life-purpose, meaningful-work, mindful-success, personal-development, productivity-mindset, purpose-over-busyness, purposeful-productivity, values-driven-life

152 likes

#23

“True wealth is born not in what we keep, but in what we're brave enough to outgrow.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: courage-to-change, growth-mindset, inner-growth, inspirational-reads, letting-go, life-transitions, personal-transformation, purposeful-living, redefining-wealth, self-discovery

109 likes

#24

“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

280 likes

#25

“Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: drama, exciting, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, page-turner, past, politics, present

235 likes

#26

“
US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vulture”. He said, “When the day comes for me to meet my maker and account for my actions, the thing that I would be most proud of is the fact that I fought against and perhaps totally prevented the carrying out of one of the most hare-brained tactical schemes that would have cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of men!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: documented, factual, indochina-war, insightful, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

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#27

“Ngo Diem was heard to say, “I want a repressive machine controlling the whole of the country of South Vietnam from Saigon to the remotest villages. You shall apply massacres, torture, deportations, and mass imprisonment while conducting constant raids. You shall make the population so fearful of this government that no-one shall ever dare to become a revolutionary or any other kind of outlaw!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, strategy, tactical, vietnam, war-recount

40 likes

#28

“What am I doing here in this endless winter?”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

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#29

“What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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#30

“Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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