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#1

“Roughly translated into English I am Galactic Exploration and Research Intelligence number twenty-seven.” “The first letter of those words comes out G.E.R.I., so I’ll call you GERI if that’s okay.”
― C.A. Knutsen, Tom and G.E.R.I.

tags: adventure, drama, entertaining, et, gravity, literature, sci-fi, science-fiction, spaceship, ya

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#2

“But, if we consider, as physicists now claim, that everything is energy—everything we see, everything we think, everything we do—then it is just possible that this same law of conservation of energy applies to questions of morality. A conservation of moral energy, a maintenance of equilibrium… a balance exists and must be preserved. If an action is taken that disrupts that balance, then an action similar in kind and degree is required to restore equilibrium.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

tags: balance, equilibrium, fate, karma, morality, newton, physics

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#3

“We have a ball to attend tomorrow night. Assuming you don’t already have plans?” A slow sexy smile grew on his face.
A ball? A new gown? With him? It could be worse.”
― J.J. Sorel, A Taste of Peace

tags: drama, fiction, novel, passion, work

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#4

“It is an historical fact that you and I have a problem doing the right thing, for others and for ourselves. Yet, we deny it fiercely or wallow in shame, neither of which God wants for us.”
― Randy Loubier, Slow Brewing Tea

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

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#5

“As puzzled as I was by my classmates’ assumptions, their classification of me as a Black American nonetheless comforted me. Could it be that now, finally, I had my own group to belong to? Would Black Americans claim me just because the whites assigned me to them?”
― 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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#6

“Her growing possessiveness felt both good and bad.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#7

“Cindy extended her hand. I got up, faced her, and shook her hand. A strong handshake. This was definitely a no-nonsense young woman.
“I recognize you from your pictures, Mr. Ludefance.”
“Pleasure to meet you, Cindy. And you can call me Jack. I’m afraid you have the advantage. You probably did a Google search on me and have all my background information?”
She didn’t hesitate. “Yes.”
“Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.”
“I don’t.”
― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

tags: drama, excitement, murder-mystery

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#8

“Law and order during 2020 seemed to slip past most communities until the Vigilante stepped into view and began his own style of justice.”
― RB Le `Deach, My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories

tags: bloody, dark-fantasy, fantasies, fiction, fiction-novel, gruesome, sick, sick-fantasies, sick-mind, twisted

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#9

“For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.”
― Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive

tags: happiness, path

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#10

“A strange night, he thought. Somewhere now there is shooting and men are being hunted and imprisoned and tortured and murdered, some corner of a peaceful world is being trampled upon, and one knows it, helplessly, and life buzzes on in the bright bistros of the city, no one cares, and people go calmly to sleep, and I am sitting here with a woman between pale chrysanthemums and a bottle of calvados, and the shadow of love rises, trembling, lonesome, strange and sad, it too an exile from the safe gardens of the past, shy and wild and quick as if it had no right”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

tags: incompatible-coexistence, strange-life, war-and-peace

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#11

“position for his colleague in Secret Intelligence would be just the reverse. Sir Mark was having”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Deceiver

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#12

“Mrs. May looked back at her. "Kate," she said after a moment, "stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.”
― Mary Norton

tags: reading, stories

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#13

“Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.”
― Esther Forbes

tags: america, colony-to-country, freedom, murica, our-country

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#14

“Maybe the hairs on my head were numbered" she went on with a sudden serious sweetness "but nobody could ever count my love for you".”
― O. Henry

tags: hair, o-henry, the-gift-of-the-magi

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#15

“Perceptions of unfairness operate on a continuum”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

tags: companies, goals, humanity, motivation, positive, practical, relationship, safety-net, strategy, trust

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#16

“The bang of the modernist metal doorknocker exploded in the room. Jolting upright on the edge of the couch, Isa froze, her heart beating a discordance of dread. Her mind went blank as she stared
at the door. No.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: class-conflict, debut-novel, gripping, identity, inner-turmoil, lush-landscapes, real-estate, societal-expectations, suspenseful, tropical-settings

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#17

“I prefer death to dishonor for me and my child.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: compelling, danger, different-worlds, escape, fear, intrigue, power, secrets, twists, unexpected

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#18

“He thrust his shoulders back and spoke in a whisper that sounded like the hiss of a snake.
‘Yes, the very battle between good and evil, played out even in the lowliest of lives like yours. Witches killing dogs because they did not get their favourite drink.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, curses, enchanting, fiction, intrigue, magic, magical, magical-realm, unpredictable, ya-litterature

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#19

“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

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#20

“Do you know where Jean de Tournet is?” Jason asked.
“He is dead, Uncle,” Charlotte said flatly.
“How do you know?”
“I killed him in 1943. He was doing business with the Nazis. He tried to rape me” – she stopped and shivered – “but I killed him before he could.”
Jason and Sophie both looked at Charlotte with horror. This was the first time Jason had showed any genuine emotion throughout the evening. It was fear.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

tags: holocaust-survivor, love-and-loss, mood-driven, plot-twists, secret-identities, small-town-intrigue, star-crossed-romance, suspense-novel, tragic-resolutions, unexpected-endings

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#21

“I like seeing people when they can't see me.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: people, seeing

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#22

“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
― Richard Dawkins

tags: institutions, organized-religion, religion, richard-dawkins

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#23

“Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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#24

“You know why my wheelchair doesn't have handles, Grayson? I don't like to be pushed.”
― Chuck Dixon, Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #8

tags: barbara-gordon, batgirl, birds-of-prey, dc-comics, dick-grayson, oracle

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#25

“We’re never so outraged as when a cabbie drives past us or the woman in the elevator clutches her purse, not so much because we’re bothered by the fact that such indignities are what less fortunate coloreds have to put up with every single day of their lives—although that’s what we tell ourselves—but because we’re wearing a Brooks Brothers suit and speak impeccable English and yet have somehow been mistaken for an ordinary nigger.”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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#26

“There is in this a cruel contradiction implicit in the art form itself. For true jazz is an art of individual assertion within and against the group. Each true jazz moment (as distinct from the uninspired commercial performance) springs from a contest in which each artist challenges all the rest; each solo flight, or improvisation, represents (like the successive canvases of a painter) a definition of his identity: as individual, as member of the collectivity and as a link in the chain of tradition. Thus, because jazz finds its very life in an endless improvisation upon traditional materials, the jazzman must lose his identity even as he finds it — how often do we see even the most famous of jazz artists being devoured alive by their imitators, and, shamelessly, in the public spotlight?”
― Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act

tags: jazz

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#27

“The family discussed some of the things they could do to stop the forest from being cut down. They talked about making flyers and delivering them in the neighbourhood.”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

tags: eco-consciousness, emotional-impact, emotional-intelligence, gratitude, kindness-matters, life-energy, personal-growth, playful-exploration, storytelling, teaching-respect

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#29

“The image of the sensual, sleep-laden Naomi made him smile. And wish he’d been lying on the pillow next to her when she’d opened her eyes. Lucky pillow.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: action, adventure, discovery, drama, emotions, fiction, intrigue, mystery, romance

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#30

“And the answers she was seeking were on full display, right in front of her.
Not chaos. Not blood. Not even sound.
Just clarity.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

tags: complexity, emotionally-charged, emotions, evocative, human-fragility, intrigue, struggles, tension, thrilling, unpredictable

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#31

“Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fiction, historical-fantasy, intrigue, magic, mystery

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