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    Therisa Peimer
    “Too pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one moment!" Piercing him with her best scary stare, she said, "It surprises me that no one has pointed out your glaringly obvious agenda, so let me be the first.”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: adventure, cult, death, drama, dystopian, fiction, future, romance, sci-fi
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    Barbara Sontheimer
    “She is an able negotiator and a strong ally." Pickering said, as his eyes caressed her lovely face.  He noticed both her arms were wrapped tightly around Victor's, and that she looked up at him with such commitment that it made his cynical view of love soften.  Reminding him bittersweetly of how he had felt once, a very long time ago.”
    ― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
    tags: betrayal, emotions, friendship, historical-backdrop, honour, human-emotions, love, relationships, resilience, torment
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    Merlin Franco
    “Darkness is bliss; so is light. Together they make life tick on Earth. Light keeps us going, but it is the darkness that mothers us in her lap and recharges our souls. For without her, dawns will never be beautiful. Never will they be so energetic. The more we fight darkness, the more we tire.”
    ― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
    tags: darkness-and-light, healing-quotes, recharge-yourselves-quotes, self-discovery-quotes, spiritual-journey-quotes, spirituality-quotes, tantra, yin-and-yang
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    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “The telegram was sealed – an old-fashioned touch, I thought, but then I’d never had a telegram before. I took my time opening it. I said nothing.”
    ― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows
    tags: betrayal, climatic, fiction-novel, hardship, investigation, life, paranormal, revenge, sadness, tense
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    A.R. Merrydew
    “My name is Jenny,’ the prototype curtly informed Theodore, with a stance that advertised her statement to perfection.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
    tags: android, dystopian, fantasy, fiction-action, good-v-s-evil, mystery, ramatic, science-fiction, tags-adventure
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    Kyle Keyes
    “We know you stood guard duty at the White House, Reuben. We have film of you urinating behind the bushes.”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Worm Holes
    tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure
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    Pearl S. Buck
    “We were a proud people. We lost our country. Our only hope for return was to keep ourselves a people. The only hope to keep ourselves a people was to keep our common faith in one God, a God of our own. That God has been our country and our nation. In sorrow and wailing and woe for all that we have lost has been our union. And our rabbis have so taught us, generation after generation.”
    ― Pearl S. Buck, Peony
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    Victoria Aveyard
    “To look powerful is to be powerful.”
    ― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
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    Aldo Leopold
    “Il Signore dà e il Signore toglie, ma Egli non è più il solo a farlo. Quando il nostro lontano antenato inventò la pala l'uomo fu in grado di dare: poteva piantare un albero; quando inventò l'ascia gli fu possibile togliere: poteva tagliarlo. Chi possiede della terra ha assunto, più o meno consapevolmente, le funzioni divine di creare e distruggere le piante.”
    ― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
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    Jared Diamond
    “Great-Man” view of the British historian Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), who asserted that history is dominated by the deeds of great men, such as Oliver Cromwell and Frederick the Great.”
    ― Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order. There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe – and He’s evil. But nobody in history has had the stomach for such a belief.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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  • #12
    “I don't want to be caught with my pants down.”
    ― March Lions, The Last Sunset
    tags: action, adventure, death, dystopian, life, literary-fiction, past, sci-fi, travel, witty
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    William Kely McClung
    “The two shadows, black against the dark, defined by voids of light, moved at impossible speeds.”
    ― William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven
    tags: action, adventure, martial-arts, science-fiction, super-hero, thriller
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “A French lieutenant was asked by the commander of the French forces, “Jean, it seems to me that many people are only saying the things they think that I want to hear. Accordingly, what I am getting is not information, it is fucking bullshit!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: american-army, dangerous, divided, division, french-army, helpless, humanity, invasion, political, vietnam
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    Nancy Omeara
    “Written twenty years after she held office, this abridged biography is being released now, prior to taking place.

    Maybe we can learn from history before it happens.”
    ― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
    tags: alternative-history, american-history, fun, history, political, political-fiction, satire, service, women-in-politics
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    Max Nowaz
    “Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, BAGOMBO SNUFF BOX.
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    Robyn Mundell
    “Wish me good luck, please,” I whisper.
    “On one condition,” Philemone says. “Remember, what you call luck is the meeting of opportunity and flexibility.”
    I smile, weakly.
    “Good luck,” she says. “Now go.”
    ― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker
    tags: brain, middle-grade, science, science-fiction, scientists
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: belief, confidence, trust
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    Charles Dickens
    “The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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    James Redfield
    “creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we’re alive, and we’re going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remains—we can’t know.”
    ― James Redfield, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision
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    Hilary Mantel
    “The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: change, gestures, history, power, subtlety, tudors
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