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    Sara Pascoe
    “Raya knew this type of girl – they never liked her. Usually they’d make fun of her, behind her back, but loud enough for her to hear. She was too alternative, too poor and too cynical – the foster kid – to be of any interest to these social climbers.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: adventure, curses, enchanting, fiction, intrigue, magic, magical, unpredictable, ya-litterature
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    Ellen Raskin
    “Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.”
    ― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game
    tags: humor
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    Jostein Gaarder
    “مع كل يوم يمر ، ومع كل نشاط صغير نقوم به سوف تتضاعف حظوظك في أن تذكرني”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl
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    Jerry Spinelli
    “Now," my mother sniffled, "WERE you abducted? Kidnapped?"
    "You mean did somebody snatch me?"
    "Yes. Well?"
    "Why would anybody wanna snatch ME?"
    "Megin. Just DID they?"
    "Did who? Who's THEY?"
    ANYBODY! Snatch you?"
    I laughed. "Jeez no!" And she grabbed me again and we cried some more.”
    ― Jerry Spinelli, Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush?
    tags: life
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    Robert T. Kiyosaki
    “Accounting is possibly the most confusing, boring subject in the world, but if you want to be rich long-term, it could be the most important subject.”
    ― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “But I hurt you." His voice grows quiet. "I wish that I hadn't.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door
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  • #7
    “Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”
    ― Robin Waterfield, Republic
    tags: plato, reading, understanding
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
    tags: action, ancestry, discovery, family, family-history, future, history, literary-fiction, love, suspense
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “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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    “Christ, I feel like a naughty schoolboy again,” said Alec as they walked into King’s Bench Walk. “We have just had a dressing-down by the headmaster. Strider could easily be a man handy with a cane.”
    “That man Strider is a crook,” said Bing-Wallace. “His utterances are like the product of a performance of Joseph Pujol … Le Pétomane!”
    “Who is Joseph Pujol?”
    “He is a well-known French flatulist performer.”
    “What?” Alec stopped dead,
    “A fartist, dear boy, a performer of farts.” Bing-Wallace began to giggle, as did Alec.”
    ― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap
    tags: atmospheric, complex-friendships, forbidden-romance, historical-drama, intense-dialogue, logical-deductions, passionate-encounters, post-war-healing, uncovering-lies, whodunit
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    “The owner of the Post Office was called Maurice. A sixtyish-year-old with a large red nose that was pebble-dashed with broken capillaries, and a smooth bald head with a fuzz of grey hair around the side like the tide mark on a dirty bath. He had a gruff manner, distrusting eyes and a cough like kicked gravel.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: descriptive-prose, visual-moments
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    C. Toni Graham
    “Tolerance doesn’t mean to accept, believe, understand, agree or ignore. Tolerance means yielding to beliefs that are not your own without judgement or condemnation.”
    ― C. Toni Graham
    tags: crossroads, explore, gratitude, journey, learn, life, opportunity, respect, satisfaction, take-risks
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    Roald Dahl
    “the world is a scary place for such a small child”
    ― Roald Dahl, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
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    Wally Lamb
    “Sarcasm is a suit of armor.”
    ― Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Go and make yourself useful, since you are too big to be ornamental.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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    Christopher Moore
    “What is your name?" asked Lear.
    Caius," said Kent.
    And whence do you hail?"
    From Bonking, sire."
    Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?”
    ― Christopher Moore, Fool
    tags: christopher-moore, fool
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    John Ajvide Lindqvist
    “He felt like normal. Filled with anxiety, dread, sure. But even that wasn't unusual...”
    ― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In
    tags: anxiety
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    Thomas Harris
    “The enemy inside Graham agreed with any accusation.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
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