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#1

“Disclaimer: Consider all perceived errors and scrutinize all self-evident truths.”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

tags: abyss, drug-use, emotion, heart, lgbt, pain, post-modern-dystopia, satire, suicide, unimaginable

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#2

“Chuck skipped through the rest of the preamble to the actual examples
Spaceguard had chronicled:
“On March 23rd, 1989, an asteroid designated Asteroid 1989FC missed
hitting the Earth by six hours. This little jewel packed the energy of
roughly a thousand of the most powerful nuclear bombs, and the human
race became aware of it shortly after its closest approach. Had this celestial
baseball been only six hours later most of the population of the Earth
would have been eliminated with zero warning.”
“In October of 1990, an asteroid that would have been considered
very small, struck the Pacific Ocean. This little fellow only packed the
energy of a small atomic bomb, about the same as the one that flattened
Hiroshima, and if it had arrived a few hours later or earlier it could have
easily struck a city rather than making a relatively harmless splash into
the center of the ocean. Remember, relatively here, is just a comparative
term.” ”
― Jody Summers, The Mayan Legacy

tags: adventure, doomsday, gripping, irreversible-damage, justice, mission, mystery, ranch, science-fiction, turmoil

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#3

“Meditation without love is like drinking tea from an empty cup.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: love-in-spirituality, meaningful-living, meditation

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#4

“Are you sure this will work?” asked Princess Sophie as she was pulling the cart away from Lady Ariana’s cottage.
“If you believe, it will work,” said Lady Ariana.”
― Mike Martin, Princess Sophie and the Christmas Elixir

tags: christmas-adventure, colourful, faith, fun, happy-endings, heart-warming, hope, imagination, love, spirit-of-christmas

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#5

“The American generals could only think in terms of large armies and huge battles. They believed or hoped that an enemy who chose to hide in jungles and tunnels would quickly be flushed out by American fire-power and then die in open battle.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, war, war-recount

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#6

“He turned to look at her and spoke in a low voice. ‘So many questions Anthea. Perhaps it’s time I asked you a few questions.’ ‘What do you mean.’ ‘Who were you thinking about? This morning?’ ‘What? You mean when we …’ ‘You know what I mean. Who was in your mind?’ ‘I don’t really think while, you know … ‘ ‘I don’t believe you.”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

tags: betrayal, climactic, demon, jealous, lonely, manor-house, mystery, odd, psychic, unusual

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#7

“This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: christmas, festive, humbug, humour, writers-life

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#8

“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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#9

“That’s what influenza means, she said. Influenza delle stelle—the influence of the stars. Medieval Italians thought the illness proved that the heavens were governing their fates, that people were quite literally star-crossed.”
― Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

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#10

“أين تجد جرساً
يقرع في أحلامك؟”
― بابلو نيرودا, The Book of Questions

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#11

“God woos us through His Word and His Spirit to walk by faith; Satan woos us through government, commerce, and religious idolatry to walk by sight.”
― Tim LaHaye, Are We Living in the End Times?: Curretn Events Foretold in Scripture... and What They Mean

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#12

“...Father made a fetish out of performing tasks the correct way. There was an efficiency and economy of his motions that I always found a pleasure to watch and a pain to mimic.”
― Pat Conroy

tags: south-of-broad

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#13

“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: life, mistakes, regret

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#14

“She’ll find you. Her need to know you will eventually consume her.”
― Stephen Douglass, The Tainted Trust

tags: crime, fathers-and-daughters, romance, trilogy

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#15

“If we attempt to explain, in an easily accessible and clear way, how positive and negative actions affect the filling and decreasing of their life ether, we can state that physically it depends on their intentions.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: deepreads, dogood, karmaandintentions, lifeenergy, metaphysicalfiction, spiritualethics, thepythagorean

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#16

“The city centre was still crawling with Christmas shoppers looking to add to their already burgeoning piles of gifts. To Scott they were like ants at a picnic, teeming from store to store, trailing oversized carrier bags and infants behind them as they went. Scott felt alien in this environment; pulling up his hood he hurried through the crowds, dodging pushchairs, lit cigarettes and charity collection tins.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: christmas, resentment, youth

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#17

“Many poor people standing in line are being turned away because they do not have enough money to get transportation.”
― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

tags: action, conquest, fast-paced, intrigue, military, mystery, powerful, war, wealth, weapon

82 likes

#18

“Most cities are like deserts: concrete and steel, dust and ash, rusty detritus in the outskirts, the occasional oasis.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

tags: adultfiction, atmospheric, cityascharacter, darkhumor, desertnoir, financialfiction, literarysatire

125 likes

#19

“The promise of a reward can help encourage children to keep at a hard task. Offer something fun each time the child takes time to practice.”
― Sybrina Durant, Boo's Shoes - A Rabbit and Fox Story: Learn To Tie Shoelaces

tags: activity, children-s-book, children-s-picture-book, kids-activity-book, kids-book, kids-books, kids-reading, picture-book

16 likes

#20

“The powerful win loyalty through fear, the humble win loyalty through love. Love’s loyalty will always last longer”
― Robert Reid, The Empress:

tags: battles, emotions, fantasy-fiction, heroes, lies, loss, pain, political-thriller, secrets, tense

34 likes

#21

“Lev was a man who appreciated the finer things in life. To him, Maeve was one of them.”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

tags: detective, devastating, fighting, investigation, mystery-series, private-investigator, secrets, survival, threats, violence

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#22

“… the primitive comprehension that the state property represents a social one, their identification, and their equalization could not resist the criticism of the time. The state property is not socialism. The state-monopoly property, as it was on the both sides of the Berlin Wall and which continues to be such one even after it dropped down, is not social property. There was never and nowhere any socialism! In the twentieth century, we passed through a system of utopian socialism as proof that this was not socialism that was not possible, but the utopia of the writers before Marx and after Marx. We were visited by a utopian socialism, which at the contemporary stage is simply capitalism—state, monopolistic.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: civil-society, democratic, freedom, justice, liberty, monopolistic, myth, oppression, society, totalitarian-system

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#23

“Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.”
― Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy

tags: human-nature

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#24

“When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.”
― sara gruen, Water for Elephants

811 likes

#25

“Those crazy physicists that spend all day cooking themselves under an atomic reactor and all night writing stories for Weird World have done it. Spoiled my day completely. One of those idiots has hung the world up like a celluloid ball in an airstream.”
― Shirley Jackson, Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

tags: apocalypse, disaster, physics

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#26

“this was business.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

tags: bodyguard, clumsy, fairies-leprecon, funny, genius, mental

33 likes

#27

“Gilbert stretched himself out on the ferns beside the Bubble and looked
approvingly at Anne. If Gilbert had been asked to describe his ideal
woman the description would have answered point for point to Anne, even
to those seven tiny freckles whose obnoxious presence still continued to
vex her soul. Gilbert was as yet little more than a boy; but a boy has
his dreams as have others, and in Gilbert's future there was always a
girl with big, limpid gray eyes, and a face as fine and delicate as a
flower.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

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#28

“It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.”
― Samuel Beckett

tags: change, desire, longing, pain, suffering, time

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