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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “A look of absolute terror locked onto her features.”
    ― 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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    Dennis K. Hausker
    “One of the largest barbarians spouted after donning Trantan royalty clothing, "I would be a great nobleman. I look splendid.”
    ― Dennis K Hausker, Primitives of Kar
    tags: action, attitude, change, confidence, drama, explore, fast-paced, fiction, gripping, love
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “A good example is the best sermon.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    A.A. Milne
    “Knorretje zei: "Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel, Poeh" en Poeh zei: "Zo denk ik er ook over, Knor" en Knorretje zei: "Maar aan de andere kant, moet je wel bedenken" en Poeh zei: "Zo is het Knor, daar had ik even niet aan gedacht.”
    ― A.A. Milne
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves.
    - Emmett Cullen”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
    tags: confidence
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    Erik Larson
    “At night thunderstorms arose often, shedding lightning that gave the terrain the pallor of a corpse. Fog would settle in for days, causing the edge of the cliff to look like the edge of the material world. At regular intervals the men heard the lost-calf moan of foghorns as steamships waited offshore for clarity.”
    ― Erik Larson, Thunderstruck
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    Michael Shaara
    “This is free ground. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by what your father was. Here you can be something. Here’s a place to build a home. It isn’t the land”
    ― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels
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    Lotchie Burton
    “Everything about him screamed in warning, “Caution: dangerous terrain ahead.” A warning that both intrigued and provoked her proceed-at-your-own-risk nature.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire
    tags: action, adventure, drama, excitement, exciting, fiction, friendship, intrigue, kidnap, thrilling
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    “Decker smiled and shrugged off their laughter. The humour was only barbed if you sat on the outside, and now he was one of them.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: defiant, one-of-them
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    “You can be a natural athlete with terrible work habits, and that ends up wasting your gifts.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: career, encouraging, family, fitness, healing, lesson, motivating, sport, support, time
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  • #11
    “The contemplative clinking and methodical chewing are a little weird, but it is proof that souls are housed
inside the physical body.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: contemplating, healing, healing-journey, inner-peace, love, peace, self-love, spirit, spirituality
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    C. Toni Graham
    “Only you can charter the course of your destiny.”
    ― C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals
    tags: adventure, engaging, exciting, fantasy, life, suspense, teen, ya, ya-lit, young-adult
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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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    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “Water continued to explain about the life of the tree. “Trees can be as big below the ground as they are above it. And there are mother trees in the forests—these are the oldest trees. They have the most connections with the other trees. Trees communicate with each other and look after the young trees by sending them nutrients through their roots.”
    ― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water
    tags: compassion, eco-friendly, exploring-connections, exploring-nature, holistic-lessons, interactive-learning, kindness, natural-vibrations, parent-child-bonding, universal-connection
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    Margarita Barresi
    “After endless cajoling, rationalizing, ego stroking, and outright begging—all to no avail—Isa decided that what Marco didn’t know wouldn’t hurt him.”
    ― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage
    tags: 1920s, ambition-vs-principle, caribbean-history, defiance, gender-roles, heartfelt, lush, realistic-fiction, social-justice, vivid
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
    tags: cynicism, hard, heroism, life
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    Truman Capote
    “A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: conversation
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    Daniel Defoe
    “But how just it has been! And how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present conditions with others that are worse, Heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felicity by their experience...”
    ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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    Günter Grass
    “I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the Muse from giving me that terrible kiss. All of you who have ever been kissed by the Muse will surely understand that Oskar, once branded by that kiss, was condemned to take back the drum he had rejected years before, the drum he had buried in the sand of Sapse Cemetery.”
    ― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum
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    Alexander Hamilton
    “vicissitudes”
    ― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
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