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    Max Nowaz
    “If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
    tags: androids, artificial-humans, dystopian, exciting, intrigue, invasion, mission, planets, revolution, secrets
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    William Kely McClung
    “She circled and rolled the pan, making sure to seal and burn the ragged edges. Pleased to discover the smell of his burning flesh wasn’t that much different than the bacon.”
    ― William Kely McClung, LOOP
    tags: action-packed, compelling, conspiracy, drama, dystopian, fears, gripping, horror, monstrous, technology
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    Steven Decker
    “I know he says it’s a mind upload problem,” said Aideen. “But we won’t know that for sure until we get there. And maybe not even then if he restricts our access to the outside world of 2253.”
    ― Steven Decker, Time Chain
    tags: action, drama, fiction, future, history, lies, literary-fiction, past, time-chain, truth
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    Barry Kirwan
    “Nathan ran a palm over his forehead. He was on a mission with Taliban terrorists. His old sarge would be puking in his grave. He’d always maintained that the enemy of your enemy was still your fucking enemy.”
    ― Barry Kirwan, When the children come
    tags: dark, drama, fiction, suspense, thriller-novels
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    Robert Reid
    “Elbeth and Angus embraced and stepped back to exchange the rings. As the two lovers grasped each other’s right hands the rings shone with white intensity, dimmed and then reappeared on each of their left hands. Between their right hands a silver quaich appeared with the Cameron motto shining brightly: Aonaibh Ri Chéile – let us unite – and united they were.
    But then, as the couple lifted the ancient wedding cup to their lips, Munro once again heard Ala Moire’s voice from beyond the grave, and this time it carried a warning. “To your right Alastair, evil stalks here in the shadows!”

    Robert Reid – White Light Red Fire”
    ― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire
    tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “The final sound of the rifle shot bounced around the lake.”
    ― 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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    Aimee Cabo Nikolov
    “#metooasachild”
    ― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
    tags: metooasachild
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “If we were to name the most powerful assumption of all, which leads one on and on in an attempt to understand life, it is that all things are made of atoms, and that everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
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    Forrest Carter
    “Gidişat böyle dedi. Yalnızca gereksinim duyduklarını al. Geyik alıyorsan, en iyisini alma. En küçük ve en yavaş olanını seç, o zaman geyik daha güçlü olur ve her zaman sana et verir. Pa-koh (panter) bunu biliyor. Sen de bilmelisin!”
    ― Forrest Carter
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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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    “Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: bitterness, cruelty, ironies
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    Steven Decker
    “His life had been spent pursuing excellence and amassing a great fortune, but now that it was ending, there was no one he was inclined to share it with.”
    ― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live
    tags: adventure, classic-romance-fiction, death, essence, hope, out-of-control, post-war, rejection, traumatic, uncertainty
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “When speaking to her husband, Isabella replied, Mon tresdoutz coer, (My very sweet heart) please do that and perhaps I shall be able to continue to perform official functions on your behalf!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
    tags: british-history, culture, edward-ii, enlightening, exploration, fiction-writing, invasion, novel, powerful, queen-isabella
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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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    Sara Pascoe
    “Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: children-s, fantasy, occult, paranormal, supernatural, teenagers, urban, ya-paranormal, young-adult
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    Terry Goodkind
    “But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Confessor
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    Nikolas Schreck
    “If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.”
    ― Nikolas Schreck
    tags: left-hand-path, magic, occult, paganism, sex-magick
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    Emma Donoghue
    “Adults could be barefaced liars too, of course, and about no subject so much as their own bodies. In Lib's experience, those who wouldn't cheat a shopkeeper by a farthing would lie about how much brandy they drank or whose room they'd entered and what they'd done there. Girls bursting out of their stays denied their condition till the pangs gripped them. Husbands swore blind that their wives' smashed faces were none of their doing. Everybody was a repository of secrets.”
    ― Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
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    Betty Smith
    “Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tenderness in her, so much of wanting to give of herself to whoever needed what she had, whether it was her money, her time, the clothes off her back, her pity, her understanding, her friendship or her companionship and love. She was mother to everything that came her way. She loved men, yes. She loved women too, and old people, and especially children. How she loved children! She loved the down-and-outers. She wanted to make everybody happy. She had tried to seduce the good priest who heard her infrequent confessions because she felt sorry for him. She thought he was missing the greatest joy on earth by being committed to a life of celibacy.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: agape, humor, love
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    Franz Kafka
    “Let the future sleep for now, as it deserves. If you wake it too early, you get a groggy present.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Daniel Keyes
    “It’s exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy—about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
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