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#1

“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: adventure, danger, drama, emotional, emotions, family, fiction, literary, literary-fiction, loss

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#2

“13. Boretar was basking in the warm June sun as the Russell family prepared to depart. The black BMW’s boot was packed with the suitcases and the roof box was filled with tennis rackets and other sports gear. The bike stand on the rear of the car was already loaded with the children’s bikes. Peter made one final check of the house to ensure that all doors and windows were locked and secure. Then he shouted to his wife Mary, “We’re ready to go, where are the children?”
― Robert Reid, The Empress

tags: fiction-fantasy, historical-fantasy

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#3

“A haunting memory flooded over Ethan when his own little sister had died. He had not thought of her in years! He glanced at the other chairs that sat empty around the table and wondered how different, or better his life would have been if she had lived. He tried to imagine her sitting there, but had trouble conjuring up her face.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: american-historical-romance, emotional, historical-backdrop, human-emotions, love, powerful, resilience, romance, romantic-tension

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#4

“The need for intimacy with the Creator never left us; it was embedded in our very nature.”
― Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

tags: bible, christian, faith, god, knowledge, love, prayers, prophetic, spiritual, teachings

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#5

“Why do we try so hard to destroy all that our planet gave us to enjoy?”
― Anthony Merrydew”
― A.R. Merrydew

tags: abuse-of-power, computer-vision, data, data-souse, deep-learning, ethics, irreversible-damage, nlp, planetary-destruction, science-fiction

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#6

“Dark is beautiful, brother.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

tags: brotherhood, colorism, dark-beauty, darkness-and-light

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#7

“Oo, I like a good cat fight – especially when it doesn’t involve me,’ Oscar said.
‘Shut up!’ Bryony and Raya said simultaneously. A hairline crack formed in the ice between them.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, adventure-books, coming-of-age, engaging, paranormal, urban-fantasy, ya, young-adult

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#8

“Your contact’s codename is Stolichnaya.”
― Paul A. Barra, Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

tags: action-packed, code, deception, historical-world-war-i-fiction, military, mission, secrets, soldiers, survival, war

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#9

“And he sets his mind to unknown arts”
― Ovid

tags: art

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#10

“Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firstborn

tags: kindlehighlight

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#11

“God, fill me with courage, with power, with whatever I need to be a witness. I don’t want to be afraid anymore. I don’t want to wait any longer. I don’t want to worry about offending. Give me a persuasiveness rooted in the truth of your Word. I know it is your Spirit that draws people, but use me.”
― Tim LaHaye, The Left Behind Complete Set, Series 1-12

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#12

“You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#13

“Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through those sweet summer evenings was beautiful but with the pale passionless beauty of a pearl. Your love has passed through me and now I feel my mind something like an opal, that is, full of strange uncertain hues and colours, of warm lights and quick shadows and of broken music.”
― James Joyce, Selected Letters of James Joyce

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#14

“Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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

885 likes

#15

“Everyone is ready for the end of the day, ten-minute group meditation. The meditation is like the iciest beer you have ever had after a hard day’s work.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: accomplishing, cult, descriptive, faith, god, love, meditate, meditating, pray, religous

209 likes

#16

“Water was quiet for a bit before it said, “I want to tell you about you and me and how we are connected. I’m part of you and you are part of me. I am part of the trees, the plants, and the rocks. I am part of everything!”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

tags: eco-consciousness, energy, energy-fields, family-time, gratitude, healing, mindfulness, nature-awareness, nurturing-environment, teaching-connection

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#17

“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

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#18

“Fame to an artist is like light to a vampire.”
― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

tags: acceptance, courage, destiny, exciting, fiction, happiness, modern, pleasure, societal-expectations, transformation

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#19

“If you want to be great, you have to be a leader. You’ve got to listen to me, son. That’s what we brought you here to do, to be a leader. And you can do it.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

tags: biography, experiences, healing, journey, life, life-journey, self-discovery, teaching, time, travel

279 likes

#20

“Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. I
believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a
warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women
take it warm-heartedly, everything would come all right. It's all this
cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.”
― D.H. Lawrence

tags: lady-chatterley-s-lover, love, modernism, sex

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#21

“This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

tags: addicts, junkies, trainspotting

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#22

“It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly,” I read in the collection of letters written by Camille Pissarro to his son Lucien, “that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.… You must harness yourself to drawing.”
― Chaim Potok, The Gift of Asher Lev: A Novel

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#23

“Are you afraid in there?" she said softly, as the men called out for them.
"No," he said. "I'm not afraid. You lock me in. They won't get me."
She closed the door on the little white face, turned the key in the lock. Then she slipped the key into her pocket. The lock was hidden by a pivoting device shaped like a light switch. It was impossible to see the outline of the cupboard in the paneling of the wall. Yes, he'd be safe there. She was sure of it.
The girl murmured his name and laid her palm flat on the wooden panel.
"I'll come back for you later. I promise.”
― Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key

tags: promises, secret

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#24

“Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.”
― Charles Darwin

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#25

“Nor are introverts necessarily shy. Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not. One reason that people confuse the two concepts is that they sometimes overlap (though psychologists debate to what degree). Some psychologists map the two tendencies on vertical and horizontal axes, with the introvert-extrovert spectrum on the horizontal axis, and the anxious-stable spectrum on the vertical. With this model, you end up with four quadrants of personality types: calm extroverts, anxious (or impulsive) extroverts, calm introverts, and anxious introverts. In other words, you can be a shy extrovert, like Barbra Streisand, who has a larger-than-life personality and paralyzing stage fright; or a non-shy introvert, like Bill Gates, who by all accounts keeps to himself but is unfazed by the opinions of others.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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