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    John Rachel
    “Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs for 15 minutes.”
    ― John Rachel
    tags: cultural-relativism, detroit, feminism, incarceration
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    Rebecca Rosenberg
    “I should have known you would create your own castle one day, You didn't need me, after all.”
    ― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne
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    “You are such a tease, Remy—you just love to lead every guy on. Don’t you? But you’re the one who’s going to get hurt. Logan is a player. Trust me, I know him and his kind.”
    ― Hope Worthington, Shifting Moon: Shifting Moon Saga, Book 1
    tags: contemporary-romance, fantasy, humour, literature, paranormal, paranormal-romance, teen-ya, urban-fantasy, young-adult
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    Therisa Peimer
    “Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me.”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: advanced, bloodshed, drama, exciting, fiction, genetics, lovers, political, supremacist, thrilling
    453 likes

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    Frank Lambert
    “Zam watched as the creature began to fade, until it disappeared altogether and all that remained was his own reflection in the mirror. He wondered if he was still sleeping, wondered if his nightmares were seeping into his waking moments. Maybe he was just going crazy. The only sign he was not going crazy was the fine line of blood that slowly trailed down the inside of the mirror.”
    ― Frank Lambert, Xyz
    tags: changelings, discovery, fiction, frightening, ghost, horror, journey, literature, scary, spine-chilling
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    Susan Rowland
    “There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, mystery, trauma
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “As Aristocleia raised her cup to toast Xanthippus, her gown slipped from her shoulders, exquisite as Aphrodite’s, and flowed like the water that slid over her naked breasts when she allowed him to watch her bathe. It was wonderful to possess a gem of a woman. It made a man feel beautiful and godlike himself, briefly.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: 5th-century-bc, action, drama, enchantment, entertaining, fiction, literary-fiction, love, romance
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  • #8
    “She’s a cop’s wife. She understands what her husband does for a living,” the priest said.”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: detective, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, mystery, noir, noir-mystery, pi, private-investigation
    136 likes

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    K. Ritz
    “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
    884 likes

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    Philip Gourevitch
    “This is what fascinates me most: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.”
    ― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
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    Jasper Fforde
    “She used to only play "Help Yourself," but now she only plays "Delilah." Is that normal?
    "It's not unusual.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser
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    E.B. White
    “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.”
    ― E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: charlotte, charlotte-s, web
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    Tim O'Brien
    “I am forever astonished at the longevity of childhood. How it never ends. How we are what we were. How turtles and engines and stolen kisses leave their jet trail across our gaping lives.”
    ― Tim O'Brien, Tomcat in Love
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    Pearl S. Buck
    “Every mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”
    ― Pearl S. Buck
    tags: inspirational
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    Steve Snyder
    “Flak accounted for far more air crew casualties than German fighters and took down more American planes than the fighters.”
    ― Steve Snyder, Shot Down: The true story of pilot Howard Snyder and the crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
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    Max Nowaz
    “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
    283 likes

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    K. Ritz
    “Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, humour, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, sorcery
    890 likes

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    Susanna Clarke
    “I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
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    David Sedaris
    “I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.”
    ― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
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    Wilkie Collins
    “We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
    tags: humor
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls...”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: darkness
    159 likes

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  • #22
    Ken Kesey
    “Juicy fruit”
    ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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    Misty Mount
    “When I moved my hands down away from the window I caught sight of my reflection in the glass, bright against the black morning beyond. I couldn’t contain the audible gasp that sounded in my throat. I had expected to see the slightly translucent representation of my face mirrored on the pane, but instead I saw an ivory haze where my features should have been.”
    ― Misty Mount, The Shadow Girl
    tags: discovery, fantasy, friendship, introvert, invisible, isolated, lonely, mystery, teen-girl, young-adult
    133 likes



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