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#1

“Why do they say that positive emotions prolong life? That is exactly true, because they physically provide the body with vital energy, and on the opposite side of the equation negative emotions burn the energy.”
― Alexander Morpheigh

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#2

“ramshackle barn sunbeams play while they can”
― John C. Waugh, busted haiku

tags: haiku-inspired, hope, impermanence, nature-light, poetry, quiet-joy, seasonal-reads, simple-beauty

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#3

“The world is full of magic. You’ve just got to learn how to access it.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#4

“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: excuse, life, musings, photos, writers, writers-life

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#5

“ “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: documented, fiction, historical, recount-of-war, truth, unity, unrest, war, warring, world

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#6

“If there was a moment a person could choose to fall in love, that would have been mine.. with him.”
― J. Rose Black, The Real Ones

tags: book-quotes, emotional-romance, falling-in-love, heart-on-sleeve, love-story, romance-readers, romantic-tension, second-chance-romance, swoon-moment

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#7

“This shouldn’t be happening. I’ve spent many nights pushing aside my memories of her. But in the blink of an eye, here she is resetting my fantasies as if it were yesterday”
― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance

tags: can-t-forget-her, emotional-romance, heart-vs-head, old-flame-energy, romance-readers, second-chance-romance, tension-on-sight, uninvited-feelings, yearning

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#8

“During class, make sure to actively participate and engage with the material. This shows that you are invested in the class and are eager to learn”
― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University

tags: academic-growthstudent-habits, class-participation, college-success, learning-mindset, nonfiction, study-tips

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#9

“Another is a friend, a boon companion, who will not be with you when sorrow comes.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

tags: book-quotes, friendship, grief, historical-fiction, reflective-reads, tender, truths-of-life, wisdom

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#10

“Gabriel Mackie had just celebrated his fourth birthday the first time he visited the whisper room, a windowless enclave with lavender walls brimming with daydreams, obscured from reality. All he knew for certain was that his older brother, Griff, nicknamed Boo, was gone. His bedroom at the end of the long hallway had been transformed into a guest room with ecru lace duvets instead of the blue and white pinstriped spreads covering the twin beds. Vanished were his toy box and New York Yankee American League pennants that had plastered the walls, replaced by paintings of water lilies and wheat fields. A stray tear trickled down Gabe’s cheek when he remembered Boo’s curly blonde hair and how he snorted when he laughed. Silence is deafening and the Mackie household screamed heartbreak.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

tags: child-s-innocence, emotional, family-drama, heartbreaking, loss-of-a-child, old-soul, wisdom

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#11

“I loathe these people. I loathe this place.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: angst-reads, anti-hero, bitter-truth, dark-fantasy, epic-fantasy, grim-mood, isolation, relatable-line, unfiltered-narrator

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#12

“The schizophrenia robbed Raya of her mother... [She] wondered if that other world, revealed by psychosis, was the real one for her mother. Who could blame her for choosing fighting aliens and evil instead of just being an ordinary mum?”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: empathy, hardtopics, mentalhealthrep, motherdaughter, yafantasy, yalit

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#13

“You bear the mark, young one. Watch and learn and you will know the truth about yourself.”
― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode

tags: book-quotes, destiny, fantasy, identity, kid-lit, magic, middle-grade, mystery, self-discovery

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#14

“Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

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#15

“Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.AMD”
― Founding Fathers, The United States Constitution

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#16

“Seguimos haciendo lo mismo de siempre, una y otra vez, y encima nos preguntamos por qué no mejoran las cosas.”
― Spencer Johnson, ¿Quién se ha llevado mi queso?

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#17

“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

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#18

“The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This comes from a piece of wisdom that his climate of eternal summer teaches him. It is that, under all the parade of human effort and noise, today is like yesterday, and tomorrow will be like today; that existence is a wheel of recurring patterns from which no one escapes; that all anybody does in this life is live for a while and then die for good, without finding out much; and that therefore the idea is to take things easy and enjoy the passing time under the sun. The white people charging hopefully around the islands these days in the noon glare, making deals, bulldozing airstrips, hammering up hotels, laying out marinas, opening new banks, night clubs, and gift shops, are to him merely a passing plague. They have come before and gone before.”
― Herman Wouk, Don't Stop the Carnival

tags: caribbean, existence, life, modernity, summer, tropics, west-indies

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#19

“You won’t be able to start your training either, and you won’t be able to meet your true teacher and return home, Theo, until you defeat your own inner dragon.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: charactergrowth, defeatyourdragon, herowithin, innerwork, metaphysicalfiction, spiritualjourney, thepythagorean

139 likes

#20

“Someday, you will see that you are capable and strong enough to live all on your own. But for now, you needn’t worry. Your Nonna has enough snap in her, and you will stay right here where I can protect you.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: coming-of-age, found-family, heartfelt-fiction, historical-fiction, protection, resilience, women-supporting-women

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#21

“by”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

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#22

“We imagine our paths are freely chosen. But there is a need to account for biology and history, the random intercession of other people, culture, race, and the mystery of the transcendent. ”
― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege

tags: big-questions, book-club, criminal-justice, human-behavior, memoir, narrative-nonfiction, nonfiction-reads, race-and-culture, social-context, thought-provoking

124 likes

#23

“After wriggling over multiple keys, Anna shut the computer as if locking away an explosive device.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: modern-gothic, mystery-thriller, page-turner-moment, suspense-vibes, tech-and-tension, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery

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#24

“ It was stated by an Australian Army Officer, “Phuoc Tuy offers the perfect terrain for guerrilla warfare. It has a long coastline with complex areas of mangrove swamps, isolated ranges of very rugged mountains and a large area of uninhabited jungle containing all of the most loathsome combinations of thorny bamboos, poisonous snakes, insects, malaria, dense underbrush, swamps and rugged ground conditions that the most dedicated guerrilla warfare expert could ask for.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, history-resource, leaders, research, southeast-asia, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam

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#25

“I do not recommend jumpsuits or rompers on safari drives. You may need to relieve yourself in the bush. The last thing you want is to be entirely butt naked and look up to find a wild animal staring you down.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: classy-woman, female-travellers, safari, style-quotes, travel, travel-quotes

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#26

“I felt calm well, maybe not calm but safe. For the first time during a Montana thunderstorm, I did feel safe.”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: comfort-reads, coming-of-age, courage, emotional-fiction, healing, new-beginnings, rural-life, safety

43 likes

#27

“Alick can call me whatever makes you feel comfortable.”
― J L MARRAIN, THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER

tags: book-quotes, character-driven, fantasy, found-family, healing, heart, kindness

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#28

“Had she insight, could she have pierced the barriers of her highly selective, insular world, she may have discovered that all her life she had been with a visual defect which had gone unnoticed and neglected by herself and by those closest to her: she was born color blind.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

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#29

“Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice

tags: inspirational

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#30

“Scratching off a postcard to Charlie Taylor, Orville expressed the same spirit in a lighter vein. Flying machine market has been very unsteady the past two days. Opened yesterday morning at about 208 (100% means even chance of success) but by noon had dropped to 110. These fluctuations would have produced a panic, I think, in Wall Street, but in this quiet place it only put us to thinking and figuring a little.”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

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