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#1

“You sound like you’re enjoying my suffering.”
― 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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#2

“His eyes trapped mine and although I could have stared at that face all night, I had to look away in order to breathe.
I wondered whether I preferred the slick tuxedoed hunk, or the rugged version that looked like he’d just wrestled a bear.
Both.”
― J.J. Sorel, A Taste of Peace

tags: drama, fiction, love, mob, passion, sex

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#3

“An idea came to me. A crazy idea. I wanted to sneak into Holler’s estate located behind Holler Enterprises and find out more about what he had going on. I wanted to know about all those other buildings that could be seen stretching back into a heavily wooded area. Did it go all the way back to Santa Rosaria Sound?”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

tags: crime, mystery, thriller

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#4

“If I were a lesbian, I’d probably be one of those lipstick lesbians, which I of course had in my pocket for touch-ups later.”
― M S M Barkawitz, Feeling Lucky

tags: 21st-century, crime-thriller, death, fiction, intrigue, murder, mystery-thriller, suffering, thriller-novels

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#5

“That’s what accountability really is—fulfilling a promise to ourselves.”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

tags: christian, growth, inspirational, inspiring, introspective, memoir, motivating, motivational, personal-development, self-help

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#6

“Haven’t I always said that no amount of beating, ridicule, or degradation could change your beauty, inside or out?”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

tags: biography, dare-to-dream, determination, dreams, grit, hope, inspiring, life-journey, memoir, true-life-events

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#7

“The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction

the weight,
the weight we carry
is love.

Who can deny?
In dreams
it touches
the body,
in thought
constructs
a miracle,
in imagination
anguishes
till born
in human—
looks out of the heart
burning with purity—
for the burden of life
is love,

but we carry the weight
wearily,
and so must rest
in the arms of love
at last,
must rest in the arms
of love.

No rest
without love,
no sleep
without dreams
of love—
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines,
the final wish
is love
—cannot be bitter,
cannot deny,
cannot withhold
if denied:

the weight is too heavy

—must give
for no return
as thought
is given
in solitude
in all the excellence
of its excess.

The warm bodies
shine together
in the darkness,
the hand moves
to the center
of the flesh,
the skin trembles
in happiness
and the soul comes
joyful to the eye—

yes, yes,
that's what
I wanted,
I always wanted,
I always wanted,
to return
to the body
where I was born.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

tags: longing, love, yearning

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#8

“It had happened again. He had made everyone laugh by doing something silly, but he didn't know what it was, why it was so funny. His father would have said he ought to be a "wakeup," whatever that meant, but he hadn't been a wakeup, he had happily eaten a sausage sandwich that hadn't been a sausage sandwich. A piece of shit, they said it was, but how could he know what a piece of shit tasted like, when he had never eaten it before? What was so funny? He wished he knew; he hungered to know, to share in their laughter and understand. That was always the greatest sorrow, that he could never seem to understand.

His wide blue eyes filled with tears, his face twisted up in anguish and he began to cry like a small child, bellowing noisily, still wringing his hands together and shrinking away from them.”
― Colleen McCullough, Tim

tags: bullying, turd-sandwich

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#9

“No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

tags: humor

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#10

“You can't live long with the ones who are only beautiful, Jules. But the funny ones, oh, they last a lifetime.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

tags: love-quotes-and-sayings

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#11

“solitude is a sad thing, with no heart to which to confide your griefs.”
― Jules Verne, Around The World In 80 Days

tags: loner, loveless, sadness, solitude

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#12

“Is it the sea you hear in me,
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?

--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

tags: poetry

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#13

“Man, oh, man. He is one high-maintenance marsupial.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: best-friends, character-comedy, friend-group, funny-dialogue, humor, kids-books, middle-grade, read-aloud, talking-animals

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#14

“Music Is the Language of Emotions”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: art-and-soul, creative-life, emotional-truth, human-experience, music-lovers, philosophical-fiction, reading-mood

83 likes

#15

“One day isn’t good enough, Isaac. My patient is in dire need today, right now.”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

tags: determination, duty-and-drive, fantasy, high-stakes, motivation, no-more-waiting, take-action, women-in-stem

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#16

“Ravenous for knowledge I
devour the silence, 
then kneel, an acolyte,
 in dawn’s gray light.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: acolyte, contemplative-poetry, dawn-light, inner-quest, poetry, seeker-spirit, silence-and-wisdom, spiritual-hunger

34 likes

#17

“You do something like that, Blake Hudson, and you’d better promise to love me forever and never let go.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Mob Justice: A Scavenger Hunt Thriller

tags: crime-thriller, dangerous-attraction, emotional-tension, high-stakes-love, thriller-romance, unforgettable-lines

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#18

“Scott could feel the contents of his stomach flip over and over on themselves. He turned to the side and retched, frothy yellow bile spilled out onto the newspaper covered floor, filling the room with the putrid stench of previously ingested alcohol.

'Look's like someone can't hold their drink,' McBlane said, and Dominic and Shugg laughed.

Scott was still staring at the steam rising from his evacuated stomach contents as he heard the hammer fall. The dull crack of bone splintering under its weight.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: murder, prose, visual-moments

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#19

“We can only truly have but one love in our life.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

tags: adult-fiction, bittersweet-truths, bookish-feels, goodreads-quotes, love-and-loss, one-great-love, romance

136 likes

#20

“The couples learn to distrust what’s said about them in the media and to turn inward toward each other in times of crisis. Dina Matos McGreevey, former wife of New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey wrote, “Yes, I’d once or twice heard the rumor that Jim was gay, but I dismissed it just as I dismissed many other stories, most of which I knew not to be true.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

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#21

“If you believe in an idea that others find radical, don’t let fear keep you from stepping outside of conformity.”
― Chitra D. Nawbatt, The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success

tags: bold-thinking, career-strategy, courage, disruption, innovation, leadership, outliers, personal-development, self-belief

97 likes

#22

“Is the man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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#23

“Rule was still personal, deriving from the fief of land and oath of homage. Not citizen to state but vassal to lord was the bond that underlay political structure.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

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#24

“Without hope, it was impossible to fantasize.”
― Shannon Hale, Austenland

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#25

“Can we just call them storm spirits?” Leo asked. “Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

tags: labels, leo, lost-hero

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#26

“when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.”
― Robert Heinlein

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#27

“One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding of a relationship to a single form. This is not tragedy but part of the ever-recurrent miracle of life and growth.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

tags: inspirational

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