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#1

“But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, murder, psychological, suspense, thriller

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#2

“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, engaging, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery

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#3

“You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

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#4

“And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly”
― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

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#5

“calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear...”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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#6

“And yet the city is not dead: the machines, the engines, the turbines continue to hum and vibrate, every Wheel's cogs are caught in the cogs of other wheels, trains run on tracks and signals on wires; and no human is there any longer to send or receive, to charge or discharge. The machines, which have long known they could do without men, have finally driven them out; and after a long exile, the wild animals have come back to occupy the territory wrested from the forest: foxes and martens wave their soft tails over the control panels starred with manometers and levers and gauges and diagrams; badgers and dormice luxuriate on batteries and magnetos. Man was necessary; now he is useless. For the world to receive information from the world and enjoy it, now computers and butterflies suffice.”
― Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies

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#7

“This does not mean, however, that the phenomenal world is an illusion or unreal. The illusion is the sense of separateness.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

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#8

“If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe....No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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#9

“Each moment embrace or more so cherish. As gentle the wind blows,” “wrap yourself within its flow.”
― Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

tags: awakening, crossroads, don-t-give-up, energy, laugh, luck, open-mind, positivity, purpose, struggle

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#10

“It’s not good enough that happiness is only in my heart because of Her. I also wish her soul image to be happy because of Me.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: lovereflection, mutualhappiness, sharedjoy

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#11

“I understand more that pain is evidence to our awakening to truth and also a measure of closeness to truth.”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

tags: conspiracy, dystopian-fiction, emotional-depth, gender, horrific, lies, morality, power, truth, violence

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#12

“Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover to rescue the Scroll’s Key Keeper? Where were the College’s thanks for that?”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, betrayal, detective, drama, fiction, investigation, realistic, suspense, thriller

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#13

“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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#14

“Science Fiction, is the last great escape.”
― A.R. Merrydew

tags: ai, ai-theme, artificial-intelligence, cyberpunk, futuristic, robotics, techno, technology

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#15

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller

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#16

“note,”
― Louis Sachar, Sideways Stories from Wayside School

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#17

“Under the moon, the road that ran from the edge of her forest gleamed like water, but when she stepped out onto it, away from the trees, she felt how hard it was, and how long. She almost turned back then; but instead she took a deep breath of the woods air that still drifted to her, and held it in her mouth like a flower, as long as she could.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

tags: adventure, bravery, forest, road, thelastunicorn, woods

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#18

“She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.
In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they’d loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

tags: chaos, loss, love, lovers

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#19

“Safer to be feared than loved.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

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#20

“The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

tags: genocide, history, rwanda, united-nations

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#21

“It's only in my head, the madness. And there's no way of knowing if all this is going on in everyone else's head too without exposing myself, and I'd rather be insane and on the loose than locked up in a hospital.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

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#22

“Smile if you want to. Grimace if you’re told to.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: crossroads, explore, gratitude, journey, learn, life, opportunity, respect, satisfaction, take-risks

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#23

“Enraged, Marco paced back and forth, gripping the newspaper in his fist. What do these animals hope to accomplish with senseless violence? We have enough suffering on this island. Do we have to kill each other, too?”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: class-disparity, cultural-fiction, feminism-in-history, inner-turmoil, lush, perseverance, political-struggle, real-estate, social-mobility, thought-provoking

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#24

“The created a displacement devise that separated solids into fragmented molecules.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: courage, curiosity, engrossing, exploration, hope, mortality, plots, quantum, sorrow, survival

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#25

“Photons also are highly conscious beings. They know when they’re being observed, and they know how to get to where they’re going, regardless of obstacles. If there is a pathway or many, the photon will know them all instantaneously and use them all. It exists in the quantum state and can be in more than one place at the same time. Its awareness is unlimited. It can synchronize itself with the quantum state of the universe.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

tags: collective, electromagnetic, energy-patterns, existence, frequencies, human-existence, module, spirituality, thought-waves, waves

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#26

“Ето затова обичам да чета: някоя дреболия те заинтригува и това те отвежда до нова книга, където те грабва нещо друго, стигаш до трета и така нататък. Това е една геометрична прогресия, която няма край и служи единствено на удоволствието.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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#27

“But there must be poetry and we must stop to notice it in even the simplest acts of living or we will have wasted much of what life has to offer.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

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#28

“Haven’t I always said that no amount of beating, ridicule, or degradation could change your beauty, inside or out?”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

tags: biography, dare-to-dream, determination, dreams, grit, hope, inspiring, life-journey, memoir, true-life-events

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#29

“He was quite portly, with a profusion of gray hair, and small blue eyes which age had robbed of much of their brightness but none of their penetration.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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#30

“So I'm guessing you're Seven and Ten; What can you do?" I say as I find our rifles in the sand and hand each of them a gun.
"You can call me Marina," the girl with the brown hair says. "And I can breathe under water and see in the dark and heal the sick and wounded. And I have telekinesis."
Call me Ella, I hear ten say in my head. Aside from my telepathy, I can change ages.
"Awesome. I'm four, that nut job with the long black hair is nine and the beast is my chimaera, Bernie Kosar.”
― Pittacus Lore

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