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    JoDee Neathery
    “My CB handle is Flaming Chick, but name’s Melba—dry and crisp like the toast. Meet my co-pilot, Spark Pug,” she snorted, “Most people walk their dogs, but he’s so old I take him out for a stand . . . it takes all he’s got to lift his leg.”
    ― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush
    tags: action, action-thriller, anger, family-life, favorites, fiction, forgiveness, pain, suspense-thriller
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    K. Ritz
    “Damn her. She plagues my soul.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: character-study, compulsion, confessional, dark-fantasy, guilt, haunting, inner-war, obsession
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    Brian J. Twiddy
    “While Abigail showered, I retrieved my jacket and took the envelope out of my pocket. ‘Five days. if you play with matches, you will get burned”
    ― Brian J. Twiddy, Blessing
    tags: countdown, danger-ahead, dark-secrets, high-stakes, mystery-vibes, ominous-warning, suspense, tension-building, thriller-reads
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    “Such abilities are the true gifts of the spirit, my daughter.”
    ― Candace Lynn Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
    tags: epic-fantasy, fantasy-readers, inner-power, intuition, mind-magic, self-discovery, spiritual-gifts
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    “Debbie doesn’t want to read a book.”
    ― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words
    tags: kids-books, parents-of-readers, picture-book, reading-feels, reluctant-reader, storytime, teachers-of-instagram
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    Jennifer Mugrage
    “Their daily concerns were his; he felt them deeply.”
    ― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land
    tags: character-driven, community-care, empathy, found-family-themes, goodreads-highlight, historical-fantasy, leadership-heart
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    Lin Wilder
    “This country prides itself on freedom of the press and went to war with England because you wanted religious freedom”
    ― Lin Wilder, Plausible Liars: A Dr. Lindsey McCall Medical Mystery 5
    tags: big-ideas, book-club-pick, civic-tension, discuss-this, freedom-of-the-press, legal-thriller, thought-provoking
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    “Even if you are an introvert, you’ll still find many possibilities for meeting others. Everyone is so welcoming, and you will make friends regardless because the town is small!”
    ― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University
    tags: campus-life, ie-university, international-students, introvert-friendly, new-student-tips, nonfiction, student-community
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    Katherine Parker
    “The idea is to integrate mind and body, and not just to be “in your head.”
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    ― Katherine Parker, Resonance Alchemy: Awakening the Tree of Life
    tags: energy-awareness, grounded-spirituality, inner-work, meditation, mind-body-connection, presence, somatic-awareness, spiritual-growth
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    Jeff Johns
    “A lot of what travel teaches us is about letting go, taking the leap, jumping into the unknown, replacing your environment and all its parts for a chance at what happens next.”
    ― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer
    tags: adventure-calls, growth-through-change, jump-in-anyway, lesson-from-travel, letting-go, life-in-motion, new-beginnings, risk-and-reward, wanderlust-life
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    Mary Doria Russell
    “The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.”
    ― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God
    tags: decision-making
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    Max Brooks
    “A lot less energy to convert animal into animal than vegetable into animal. And the brain boost we got from that bonanza. Tools, language, cooperation. You can see the incentive for all the advances that make us human. More meat. Bigger brains. Bigger brains. More meat. I wonder what it looked like, when we first tasted fresh blood. What did we think? What did we feel? That moment when everything changed. From scavenger to predator. Hunted to hunter.”
    ― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
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    M.L. Stedman
    “He must return to something solid, because if he didn't, who knew where his mind or soul could blow away to, like a balloon without ballast.”
    ― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
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    Wally Lamb
    “Most helpful, Mr. Caelum," she said. "Very, very useful information. And now, shall we hear from Saint Augustine?"

    I shrugged. "Why not?" I said

    Dr. P read from a blood-red leather book. "My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it down to rest. Neither the charm of the countryside nor the sweet scents of a garden could soothe it. It found no peace in song or laughter, none in the company of friends at table or in the pleasures of love, none even in books or poetry.... Where could my heart find refuge from itself? Where could I go, yet leave myself behind?"

    She closed the book, then reached across the table and took Maureen's hand in hers. "Does that passage speak to you?" she asked. Mo nodded and began to cry. "And so, Mr. Caelum, good-bye."

    Because the passage had spoken to me, too, it took me a few seconds to react. "Oh," I said. "You want me to leave?"

    "I do. Yes, yes.”
    ― Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed
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    Tim O'Brien
    “Is there sound, he wondered, without reception? Do you hear the shot that gets you? How big, in fact, was the Big Bang? Do our pathetic earthly squeals fall upon deaf ears? Is silence golden or common stone.”
    ― Tim O'Brien, In the Lake of the Woods
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it. ”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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