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#1

“Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?"
"I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: dystopian, fantasy, fiction, fight, gripping, literary-fiction, love, mystery, sci-fi-romance, war

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#2

“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was farther away. She swung her head around—so was the shore.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: battles, classical-struggles, drama, family-life, hierarchy, naval-battles, passion, philosophical, rebellion

845 likes

#3

“Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: action, dark, drama, enemies, espionage, fight, literary-fiction, mystery, survival, tense

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#4

“I’ll say, G’day to you, Mr. Ryan!” Catherine said as she quickly closed the door in his face. “Oh, the arrogance,” she growled under her breath, leaning her back up against the closed door. “He thinks he’s so irresistible with his rugged good looks and sexy accent.”

“I’m standing right here, and I can hear you!” came Jake’s muffled words from the other side of the door. “Oh, c’mon love. I’m sorry. I didn’t realize I was offending you.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

tags: adversity, american-fiction, clean-and-wholesome-romance, clean-romance, contemporary-romance, humorous, opposites-attract, wholesome-romance, women-s-fiction, women-s-romance-fiction

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#5

“When I'm hung-over I try to imagine being old and look- ing back fondly on now, on this bit I'm currently living, and how in retrospect it might seem adventurous. In the future when I only ever sit in a chair because I'm too gnarled for pleasure or movement I'll remember when I stayed out all night and had life-changing conversations and walked all the way home because I lost my phone.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

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#6

“And to think of all the colors in the world, blood chose to be red.”
― Nelou Keramati

tags: paranormal, paranormal-romance, resonance, romance, the-fray-theory, the-fray-theory-resonance, urban-fantasy, ya, ya-romance, ya-urban-fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-paranormal, young-adult-romance

175 likes

#7

“She wasn't absolutely sure who kissed whom this time. Maybe it was gravity tilting, stars exploding. It felt like it....
She gasped into his open mouth, and he moaned. Moaned. She had no idea a sensation could go through her like that, traveling through her skin and nerves like lightning....
Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a goodbye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, she'd never even suspected it could feel this way.”
― Rachel Caine, Glass Houses

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#8

“Something made them the way they are. Things do happen for a reason.”
― Dave Pelzer, A Man Named Dave

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#9

“There must be possible a fiction which,
leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.”
― Ralph Ellison

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#10

“But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.”
― James Frey, Bright Shiny Morning

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#11

“December brought stone-silent days though a fresh odor came from the heavy sky, the smell of cold purity that was the essence of the boreal forest. So”
― Annie Proulx, Barkskins

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#12

“My father told me about you. I am here to make sure you feel comfortable. Would you like to come out and meet the others?”
― J.L. Marrain, THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER

tags: comfort-reads, fantasy-adventure, found-family, friendship, kindness, support-systems, teen-fiction, ya

47 likes

#13

“Few comprehend celibacy. ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adult-themes, character-study, fantasy, identity, inner-life, introspection, loneliness, quiet-pain

54 likes

#14

“The bar staff and croupiers all wore black with the same green triangle logo emblazoned on their shirts, and contact lenses which made their eyes shine an eerie, vibrant green. The bar optics glowed with the same green light, the intensity of which was linked to the music. As the bartender walked away to fetch the drinks, a breakdown in the techno track commenced and the bottles began to palpitate. The bartender's eyes glowed with a hallucinatory felinity that made Mangle feel nervous.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: descriptive-prose, eerie-attraction, hallucinatory

274 likes

#15

“Belief arises from honesty, consistency, and care.”
― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

tags: brand-belief, brand-strategy, care, consistency, honesty, leadership-reads, marketing-nonfiction, trust

56 likes

#16

“There’s no need for hyperbole.’ Oswald paused to see if Melvin understood this big word. Oswald was going to be famous, and fame, he knew, came with responsibilities, like setting a good example for others, being a role model.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animalinfluenced, animalstories, charactergrowth, fameandresponsibility, fictionalread, growth, heartwarmingreads, kidlit, middlegrade, talkinganimals

31 likes

#17

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

tags: bookish-thoughts, classic-vibes, desire-and-devotion, goodreads-quotes, love-quotes, mind-over-matter, romance

76 likes

#18

“By the end of the four-year term, Americans hold a bifurcated view of Mrs. Trump. Many Republicans, especially women, revere her as elegant, graceful, beautiful and wronged by the press. A pastor in Missouri held up Melania as a wifely model to which other women should aspire — or risk losing their men. At the same time some southern preachers referred to then-Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris as Jezebel, the Bible’s most nefarious woman and archetype of female cunning. There could be no surer sign that the life stories of prominent women affect the lives of private women than when pastors hold them up as positive or negative role models.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationships

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#19

“Everyone, including Robbin’ Robin, dashed for the house as rain hammered down on them, Mary slammed the back door shut just as the sky split open.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: action-scene, cinematic-writing, high-tension, page-turner, stormy-reads, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery

70 likes

#20

“The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public”
― Adam Smith, An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. Volume 1 of 2

tags: business, government

43 likes

#21

“That goes a step too far, I think. Leonardo did not invent the scientific method, nor did Aristotle or Alhazen or Galileo or any Bacon. But his uncanny abilities to engage in the dialogue between experience and theory made him a prime example of how acute observations, fanatic curiosity, experimental testing, a willingness to question dogma, and the ability to discern patterns across disciplines can lead to great leaps in human understanding.”
― Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci

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#22

“the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light

tags: discoveries

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#23

“I marveled at the beauty of all life and savored the power and possibilities of my imagination. In these rare moments, I prayed, I danced, and I analyzed. I saw that life was good and bad, beautiful and ugly. I understood that I had to dwell on the good and beautiful in order to keep my imagination, sensitivity, and gratitude intact. I knew it would not be easy to maintain this perspective. I knew I would often twist and turn, bend and crack a little, but I also knew that…I would never completely break.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

tags: autobiography, beauty-of-life, dance, determination, faith, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, powerful, prayer, undefeated

232 likes

#24

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

tags: family, first-sentence

8042 likes

#25

“Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities.”
― Dan Simmons, The Terror

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