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  • #1
    “It was always the pretty streets that hid the ugliest
    stories. She’d learned that the hard way. ”
    ― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: Secrets
    tags: action, drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction-novel, intense, psychological, scary, supernatural-thriller, suspense
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    Max Nowaz
    “Ah! You speak Levitan,” the man smiled. “But you’re not from Levita I think.” Like
most Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown’s tastes. 
“No, I lived there for a while.” 
“Did you enjoy your stay?”
“Up to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.”
“Yes of course. So are the men in Levita,” the man smiled. “We used to have a
cleansing programme to ensure a healthy population.”
“You mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the
population.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction, mystery, thriller
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    “The glow from all the Glimmers was so bright, Roger handed Santa sunglasses.
    The sleigh slowly rose in a bright ball of light. It almost looked like a snow globe.
    "Merry Christmas to all, keep your Glimmer light bright.”
    ― Robert Agnello, The Glimmers Save Christmas
    tags: children-s-books, children-s-picture-book, good, graceful, humble, imagination, kids-reading, kindness, play, possibilities
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    “Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: calculate, consider, strategy
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  • #5
    Theasa Tuohy
    “Miranda's reward to herself, after a chief investigator dubbed her "the Eloise of four-year-old detectives," was to stretch her age.  She’d now taken to informing people that she was four- and-a-half-and-three-quarters. She didn't seem to grasp the concept of almost-five.”
    ― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth
    tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, murder-mystery, mysterious, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller
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  • #6
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “A look of absolute terror locked onto her features.”
    ― 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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  • #8
    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “Hi Hazel Well here I am in the office and it’s dead quiet. What I’ll do is email pics of some of the stuff in the files and the comments with them. This is exactly what you wanted – stuff about the Games people played together with comments people made. Perfect!”
    ― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness
    tags: autism, frightening, ghost, haunted, heart-breaking, illusion, love, pain, struggles, vatican-archives
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  • #9
    Mark Ellis
    “As Merlin sat at his desk, he caught a brief glimpse of himself in the mirror on the wall opposite…He was approaching his mid-forties, tall, with dark Latin features thanks to his Spanish father. Bright green eyes sat above an aquiline nose, and his full head of jet-black hair was now speckled with the odd bit of grey.”
    ― Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer
    tags: action, enemies, heroes, infantry, infantrymen, races, sadness, truths, unknown, war
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  • #10
    Evelyn Waugh
    “I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
    tags: teddy-bear, travel
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  • #11
    Ransom Riggs
    “It occurred to me that the business of surviving precluded a great many things, exploring and falling in love not least among them.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
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  • #12
    Anna Sewell
    “If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.”
    ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
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    Samuel Beckett
    “We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Watt
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  • #14
    Jean M. Auel
    “nor can a society last if a few people exercise their individuality at the expense of the community.”
    ― Jean M. Auel, The Mammoth Hunters
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  • #15
    Iain Banks
    “I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.”
    ― Iain Banks, The Bridge
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