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#1

“ Mary fought a savage impulse to slam the door on the couple. But they were too interesting to ignore in the circumstances of the murder. She caught sight of Richard spitting out a mouthful of hair.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, mysterious, mystery, noir-mystery, suspense, tense, thriller

356 likes

#2

“When Hannah Hudson finds herself abandoned on a Rocky Mountain ranch, even a lottery win doesn’t change her bad-luck life.”
― Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

tags: drama, dramatic, fear, intrigue, literary-novel, love, mystery, relationships, tense, western

26 likes

#3

“The truth has a way of coming out of the closet.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action-packed, drama, genetics, gripping, love, political, science-fiction, supremacist, thrilling, war

166 likes

#4

“Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated from MIT. So . . . but you’re all alike to me . . . of course, you would be . . . you’re robots. And all your names are that sort of, um . . . codes, technical numbers . . . I need some marker where I can pick you out. Well, well, to you I’ll call . . .,” and Willy pondered for a moment, “Gumball, yes, Gumball! Do you mind?” “No, sir, actually no,” CSE-TR-03 said, agreeing with its new given name. “Ah, that’s wonderful. And then you’re Darwin,” Willy said, accosting the second robot. “Look what a nice name—Darwin! What do you say, eh?” “What can I say, sir? I like it,” CSE-TR-02 agreed too. “Yes, a human name with a past . . . You and Gumball . . . are from the same family, the Methanesons!” “It turns out thus, sir,” Darwin confirmed its family belonging. “And you’re like Larry. You’re Larry. Do you know that?” More addressed the next robot in line. “Yes, sir, just now I learned that,” the third robot said, accepted its name as well.”
― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

tags: ai, ai-theme, artificial-intelligence, dystopian, futuristic, machine-learning, machines, robotics, science-fiction, technology

1305 likes

#5

“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was farther away. She swung her head around—so was the shore.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: battles, classical-struggles, drama, family-life, hierarchy, naval-battles, passion, philosophical, rebellion

845 likes

#6

“They were inconveniently reasonable, those women.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland and Selected Stories

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#7

“It’s history. It’s poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

64 likes

#8

“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

tags: family, past

87 likes

#9

“That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

tags: romance

64 likes

#10

“كل النساء على الأرض والرجال أيضاُ ، يتمنون ذلك النوع من الحب الذي يحولنا ويرتقي بنا فوق الحياة اليومية ويمنحنا الشجاعة لنتخطى مآسينا الصغيرة :كـ انفطار قلوبنا على الأحلام التي لم تتحقق وخيبات الأمل الشخصية وعلاقات الحب المحطمة .”
― Lisa See, Peony in Love

tags: الحب

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#11

“By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State. It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. This is what the television news is all about. Unfortunately there is so much original sin in us all that we find evil rather attractive. To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: clockwork-orange, evil, good, moral-compass, morality, morals, sin

31 likes

#12

“I stood up to go shake hands with him and I don’t remember anything else. What I do recall is the crowd yelling and me crying, while everything seemed to be moving in slow motion.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

tags: community, family, friendships, healing, life-experiences, love, realisation, self-discovery, support, time-management

264 likes

#13

“Soft skin warm against his nose, her pulse beating strong against his cheek, suddenly clear thinking and being the voice of reason were concepts as foreign as a different language.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: attitude, change, confidence, courage, curiosity, explore, fast-paced, fear, full-on, gripping

161 likes

#14

“Whether you are on day one of being a Christian or day fifteen thousand, you should always have a teachable heart before God.”
― Kathryn Krick, The Secret of the Anointing: Accessing the Power of God to Walk in Miracles

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#15

“Water continued to explain about the life of the tree. “Trees can be as big below the ground as they are above it. And there are mother trees in the forests—these are the oldest trees. They have the most connections with the other trees. Trees communicate with each other and look after the young trees by sending them nutrients through their roots.”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

tags: compassion, eco-friendly, exploring-connections, exploring-nature, holistic-lessons, interactive-learning, kindness, natural-vibrations, parent-child-bonding, universal-connection

238 likes

#16

“We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: acid, love-gone-wrong, love-hurts, poison, reflection

291 likes

#17

“There was no light coming from under the door. I put my ear to the door and I immediately felt sick all over again. I must have known all along, before I walked back to the car and sat there waiting.”
― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet

tags: courage, dark-secrets, emotional-journey, emotional-suspense, haunting-past, personal-growth, romantic-tension, second-chances, self-discovery, small-town-vibe

37 likes

#18

“The bang of the modernist metal doorknocker exploded in the room. Jolting upright on the edge of the couch, Isa froze, her heart beating a discordance of dread. Her mind went blank as she stared
at the door. No.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: class-conflict, debut-novel, gripping, identity, inner-turmoil, lush-landscapes, real-estate, societal-expectations, suspenseful, tropical-settings

241 likes

#19

“It is working for God, not a boss. Maybe you will get a raise in consciousness.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: drama, empathy, healing, imagination, imaginery, insight, meditating, meditation, second-person, self-love

206 likes

#20

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance

1442 likes

#21

“Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The statement cannot actually be refuted, for we know nothing about his incidental possessions. But the writer might just as well have suggested that Shakespeare never owned a pair of shoes or pants. For all the evidence tells us, he spent his life naked from the waist down, as well as bookless, but it is probably that what is lacking is the evidence, not the apparel or the books.”
― Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage

tags: evidence, history, shakespeare

12 likes

#22

“I promise loyalty. I promise secrecy. And I promise courage.”
― Chuck Dixon, Batgirl: Year One

tags: barbara-gordon, batgirl, batgirl-year-one, batman

40 likes

#23

“would flower; and where birds came—and pecked”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers

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#24

“Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: religion-afterlife

424 likes