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    Therisa Peimer
    “Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me.”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: advanced, bloodshed, drama, exciting, fiction, genetics, lovers, political, supremacist, thrilling
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    Sara Pascoe
    “What's that Einstein quote about expecting different results from the same person? I shouldn't feel bad - I'm here, aren't I, I'm not the parent who didn't even text. Or the one who locked themselves in their bedroom half of Christmas. Talking like this, it's become clear that we are the main parts. This has all been about us, the sisters. I hadn't realised. I tell my mouth not to share these thoughts and Dana offers me another cigarette.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo
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    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “I always thought education was learning to think for yourself”
    ― N. H. Kleinbaum
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    Muriel Barbery
    “... c'est peut-être ça la vie : beaucoup de désespoir mais aussi quelques moments de beauté où le temps n'est plus le même. C'est comme si les notes de musique faisaient un genre de parenthèses dans le temps, de supension, un ailleurs ici même, un toujours dans le jamais.

    Oui, c'est ça, un toujours dans le jamais.”
    ― Muriel Barbery, L'Élégance du hérisson
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    Umberto Eco
    “The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
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    Azar Nafisi
    “I always had a hankering for the security of impossible dreams.”
    ― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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    Brian Selznick
    “Nothing makes living people feel more powerless than Death”
    ― Brian Selznick, Kaleidoscope
    tags: death-and-dying
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    Toni Morrison
    “You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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    Mark Ellis
    “Cairo. An inter-services game of cricket was in progress in the lush grounds behind him as Powell made his way through the grand portal of the Gezira Sporting Club. It was a hot and humid day and Powell was dripping with sweat. A fellow officer had given him a lift for part of the way but he had had to walk the last mile. Uniformed Egyptian attendants bowed and guided him through the lobby towards the bar, where he could see his host with a drink already in hand.”
    ― Mark Ellis, The French Spy
    tags: commandos, courage, defence, freedom, french-army, liberation, ptsd, special-forces, strength, war
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  • #10
    “Fair enough, that's what most people look for to begin with, but money can be a sliding scale, the more you have, the more you want, the more you need,' McBlane said as he sharpened the ash on the tip of his cigar into a point against the rim of the ashtray. It gave him the appearance of wielding a dagger as he gestured with his cigar holding hand.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: visual-moments
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    Max Nowaz
    “A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
    tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller
    421 likes

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    J.K. Franko
    “No one ever wrote the ending to their autobiography.”
    ― J.K. Franko
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    K. Ritz
    “Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, humour, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, sorcery
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    Margaret Wise Brown
    “Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
    ― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon
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    Solomon Northup
    “The influence of the iniquitous system necessarily fosters an unfeeling and cruel spirit, even in the bosoms of those who, among their equals, are regarded as humane and generous.”
    ― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave
    tags: cruelty, inequality, spirit
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale
    tags: americans, authors, british, humor
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.”
    ― Goethe
    tags: wisdom
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    Nelou Keramati
    “And to think of all colors in the world, blood chose to be red." ~ The Fray Theory”
    ― Nelou Keramati
    tags: paranormal, paranormal-romance, romance, trilogy, urban-fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-paranormal
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  • #20
    Daniel Defoe
    “Thus, we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.”
    ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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