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#1

“In twenty-four hours we have gone through more than anyone else has - I'm sure of it. But does that bind two people? Or does that just make us survivors?”
― Carl Novakovich, The Watchers: The Tomb

tags: dark-fantasy, dystopian-science-fiction, fantasy, fiction, good-vs-evil, humour, mystery-thriller, survival-of-the-human-soul, war-of-the-worlds

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#2

“Realization hit his face like a bomb. His hand trembled on my cheek, and he looked down to the ground, no longer able to hold my gaze.”
― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

tags: avenger, dark-magic, falsely-accused, fantasy, magical-world, mythical-creatures, on-the-run, romance, underworld, vampires

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#3

“It wasn’t a death stare--not for a few seconds at least.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

tags: science-fiction-romance, universe, young-adult-fiction

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#4

“When blame and self-judgement are transformed, healed, and cease to be, we have reawakened without the myth, the mythos, of separation. We are One.”
― Wendy E. Slater, Into the Hearth, Poems-Volume 14

tags: ascension, awakened-mind, forgive-yourself, forgiveness, inspirational, spiritual-growth, wisdom-inspirational

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#5

“Out of that kitchen came food not only that I had never tasted, but that I hadn’t even dreamed of tasting. Gumbo, corn jacks and blackened fish was just the start of many dishes. It was like finding all the exotic scents in the world and wrapping as many of them as you can into a dish. Cumin and coriander, paprika, red peppers, anise and fennel, burnt orange peel and chili. It felt like the sailors from every port in the world from Morocco and Madagascar to the coast of Malabar had each brought a spice with them to throw into the cooking pot.”
― Harry F. MacDonald, Magic Alex and the Secret History of Rock and Roll

tags: biographical, cultural, cultural-heritage, culture, fiction, fiction-writing, heritage

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#6

“What is it that inspires you? What do you love to do? What would you do for free? At the beginning of my busi-ness career, my why was to become a millionaire, not a good why! And why not? Because that is an aspiration rather than a why. Aspirations, I have found, won’t fuel me when the going gets tough. But a true “why” will.”
― Richard Polak

tags: business-success, learning, self-help, self-improvement

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#7

“Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

tags: inspirational

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#8

“He also thought that ‘abbreviation’ was too long for its meaning, that ‘monosyllabic’ should have one syllable, ‘dyslexic’ should be renamed ‘O’ and ‘unspeakable’ should be respelt ‘unsfzpxkable.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Big Over Easy

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#9

“Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

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#10

“Religion, superstition, oaths, education, laws, all give way before passions, interest, and power.”
― David McCullough, John Adams

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#11

“People change,' she said
'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.”
― Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

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#12

“Jack, this is Vance McGruder. I couldn’t find your cell number so I’m taking a chance on reaching you at the cottage. It’s Monday afternoon and I need you here as soon as possible. I’ve arranged for a one-way, first-class ticket on Delta Air Lines on their 3:15pm flight tomorrow afternoon to Atlanta and connecting on to LAX. I’ll have a car and driver at LAX to pick you up. Call me as soon as you get this message.”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

tags: fiction, fiction-novel, mystery-suspense

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#13

“Where’s everybody? I thought you had started production.” “They’ve got a day off, but don’t worry you’ll see the machinery is here.” But Brown was worried. As they entered the canteen, the lights came on automatically. There was nobody there. “What’s going…...” but he never finished the sentence. Brown felt a sharp pain on the side of his head and everything went black.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, action-thriller-fiction, drama, fiction, intrigue, mystery, suspense, thriller

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#14

“If you can't prove your freedom in the nanosecond before you spilled rage out of your lips, you have proven your bondage.”
― Randy Loubier, Slow Brewing Tea

tags: christianity, gods-power, guidance, healing, love, reflection, religion-and-philoshophy, spirtitual-growth

214 likes

#15

“Ignorance does not make you fireproof when the world is burning.”
― Nelou Keramati

tags: 2020, activism, climate-change, equality, george-floyd, ignorance, metoo, pandemics, quarantine, racism

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#16

“It was not going to be the end of the world. Just the end of the Cullens. The end of Edward, the end of me. I preferred it that way – the last part anyway. I would not live without Edward again; if he was leaving this world, then I would be right behind him.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

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#17

“He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside the fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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#18

“We forget that, historically, people have eaten for a great many reasons other than biological necessity. Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

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#19

“I remember a day in class when he leaned forward, in his characteristic pose - the pose of a man about to impart a secret and croaked, "If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! "This comical piece of advice struck me as sound at the time, and I still respect it. Why compound ignorance with inaudibility? Why run and hide?”
― E.B. White, The Elements of Style

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#20

“Blackness. Nothingness. It was in the shape of a giant, hazy shadow, enveloping me, swallowing me, and digesting me into the unknown. It was my biggest fear and my ultimate fate.”
― Misty Mount, The Shadow Girl

tags: discovery, fantasy, friendship, introvert, invisible, isolated, lonely, mystery, teen-girl, young-adult

205 likes

#21

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: depression, life, loneliness, sunshine

1073 likes

#22

“Maniac Magee was not born in a dump.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee

tags: first-lines, opening-lines

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#23

“Montmorency’s ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. ”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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#24

“A man stands straighter under hostile eyes.”
― Edmond Rostand

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#25

“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
― Robert Frost, Birches

tags: birches, frost, individuality

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#26

“No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

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#27

“Her body faded away so far, she almost lost her connection to it. Utter
blackness enveloped her, shutting off all warmth. All light. All love. All
support. All hope. She was pinned, alone, naked, and freezing before a
beast so terrifying she struggled to avert her gaze but could not.
Horns arose from the top of what had to be a head. Fangs protruded
obscenely from a frowning hole that must have been a mouth.
Unsheathed claws threatened instant evisceration. Horrifying eyes.
Two cesspits of black fury in which red flames churned like burning
blood. They bore down on Helen, intensifying the pressure on her to
the point of agony.
Inside her head a message played over and over. You are helpless.
Helen’s fragmented thoughts spun wildly. What to do? How to stop
this nightmare?
The wretched voice roared again, like nails clashing against slate.
“Give me the stone! Now!”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

tags: adversaries, despair, duty-vs-desire, empowerment, good-vs-evil, inner-strength, magical-realism, mystical-realms, political-intrigue, world-building

58 likes

#28

“Why don’t you put up a stand by the road.” I blurted out.”
― R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach

tags: childhood-dilemmas, countryside, evocative, flawed-characters, longing, navigating-relationships, quiet-storytelling, realistic-fiction, trust-issues, vivid-descriptions

39 likes

#29

“This is a quantum universe. Everything in it is part of quantum theory, and universal consciousness is the first cause of it all. Everything is electromagnetic energy, and all of the energy patterns are held in consciousness.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

tags: collective, electromagnetic, energy-patterns, existence, frequencies, human-existence, thought-waves, universal-conciousness, universal-energy, waves

133 likes

#30

“A day shall come when time will stop, and the broken earth will be re-forged in the fires of creative power.”
― Jack Borden, The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel

tags: coming-of-age, dark-lands, family-bonds, intense, memorable-characters, overcoming-fear, personal-growth, sacred-magic, sword-of-light, vivid

80 likes

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