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    Jeffrey S. Stephens
    “Is it you are going to buy me dinner twice in one week?”
    ― Jeffrey S. Stephens
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    Frank Lambert
    “You are thinking in human terms again,
    and forgetting Time is neither tick nor tock...
    Jarle Heavyfoot”
    ― Frank Lambert, Ghost Doors
    tags: ghost, time-quotes
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    Barry Kirwan
    “For the thousandth time, Nathan wondered why you didn’t need some kind of basic parenting skills certificate to have kids.”
    ― Barry Kirwan, When the children come
    tags: action-thriller, adventure, dark, fiction, suspense, thriller
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The Black Prince is entombed at Canterbury Cathedral. His effigy reads: “Such as thou art, sometimes was I, Such as I am, such thou shalt be, I thought little on hour of death, So long as I enjoyed breath, On earth I had great riches, Land, houses, great treasure, Horses money and gold, But now a wretched captive am I, Deep in the ground, lo I lie, My beauty great, is all quite gone, My flesh is wasted to the bone.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
    tags: biographical, british-history, documentary, drama, fictional-drama, historical, isabella, king-edward-ii, research, royalty
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    Nancy O'Meara
    “The point is to be compassionately, not cruelly, honest. Tell the person what you have heard that worries you. Allow him to respond. You may be surprised at how much sense his answers make.”
    ― Nancy O'Meara, The Cult around the Corner: A Handbook on Dealing with Other People's Religions
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  • #6
    “An end to questions or an end to life, she said to herself as she raced towards the unknown.”
    ― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
    tags: action, cruel, drama, history, power, strongwomen, trilogy, wealth, women
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  • #7
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    Nikolas Schreck
    “Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable.”
    ― Nikolas Schreck
    tags: left-hand-path, magic, magick, occult, seth
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  • #9
    Voltaire
    “theology is to religion what poisons are to food”
    ― Voltaire
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    Harold Bloom
    “Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.”
    ― Harold Bloom, Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A dead man sits on all our judgment seats; and living judges do but search out and repeat his decisions. We read in dead men's books! We laugh a dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos!”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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    Gary Clemenceau
    “And every little burg had the same building hierarchy: banks, churches, insurance companies, and hardware stores.”
    ― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity
    tags: americangothic, bookclubpick, culturescan, financialfiction, observation, smalltownamerica
    87 likes

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    Max Nowaz
    “It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the last few days for Adam. His only worry before finding the book had been how to keep his girlfriend Linda without marrying her in the process. A contest he had lost.”
    ― 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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  • #14
    “In response to be asked about Boris Johnson becoming UK Prime Minister...

    "I'm delighted. As the UK continues to plunge ever faster into a future akin to a dystopian novel I'll never run out of material to write more books. Although now that reality is more bizarre than fiction maybe plot-lines will need to be more ambitious. Perhaps a book where Boris Johnson is really an accidental sentient snafu of Trump's scrotum lint. Kind of a sequel to the Bush-Blair story. I see musical rights being drawn up as we speak.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: dystopian, dystopian-future, political, politicians, politics, prime-minister, satire, satire-quote, satire-quotes
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Eliza answered, “My Lady, that was Sir Roger Mortimer!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
    tags: captivating, facts, fiction, france, historical, human-history, king-edward, period, political-obstacles, researched
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  • #16
    “You can use all the hundred dollar words you want,” said Vic, “women like that are like TNT. You go after their man, they’d sooner kill you than look at you.”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: action, adventure, danger, fiction, fiction-novel, fictional, insight, mystery, noir-mystery, unpredictable
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    K. Ritz
    “This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, engaging, exciting, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery
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  • #18
    “People are becoming more and more like pets in digital cages, where the only meaning of their lives is to consume and isolate themselves from others like themselves.”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: digitalage, modernlifecritique, philosophicalfiction, screentime, socialcommentary, thoughtprovokingreads, wakeupcall
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    Misty Mount
    “When I realized what the drawing was depicting, I thought I would feel horror-stricken and petrified, but a strange calm had settled over me. I said, “This blackness was in my nightmare. It was coming for me to take me away . . . and I was running, trying to escape.”
    ― Misty Mount, The Shadow Girl
    tags: discovery, fantasy, friendship, introvert, invisible, isolated, lonely, mystery, teen-girl, young-adult
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    Robert Penn Warren
    “A civil war is, may we say, the prototype of all war, for in the persons of fellow citizens who happen to be the enemy we meet again, with the old ambivalence of love and hate and with all the old guilts, the blood brothers of our childhood. In a civil war – especially in one such as this when the nation shares deep and significant convictions and is not a mere handbasket of factions huddled arbitrarily together by historical happen-so – all the self-divisions of conflicts within individuals become a series of mirrors in which the plight of the country is reflected, and the self-division of the country a great mirror in which the individual may see imaged his own deep conflicts, not only the conflicts of political loyalties, but those more profoundly personal.”
    ― Robert Penn Warren, The Legacy of the Civil War
    tags: civil-war, war
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    E.B. White
    “The crickets sang in the grasses. They sang the song of summer's ending, a sad monotonous song. "Summer is over and gone, over and gone, over and gone. Summer is dying, dying." A little maple tree heard the cricket song and turned bright red with anxiety.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
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    William Shakespeare
    “Oh, I am fortune's fool!”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: classic, fate, fortune, luck
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  • #23
    Astrid Lindgren
    “Well, well, so you aren't going to be a maidservant this time?" said Pippi, stroking his back. "Oh, that was a lie, that's true," she continued. "But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?" she argued. "You wait and see, it's going to turn out he was a maidservant in Arabie after all, and if that's the case, I know who's making the meatballs at our house hereafter!”
    ― Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking
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    Emma Donoghue
    “Brother, there’s no end to your knowledge.’ ‘I’m just old,’ Cormac says with a chuckle.”
    ― Emma Donoghue, Haven
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