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#1

“Unbelievable and true. Anna Solokov is neither a frightened girl nor a criminal spider in the center of a huge web of drugs and god knows. No, that dangerous young woman could easily do both at different times, and to different people. No doubt that is part of George’s attraction to her. She is victim. Yet when necessary, or when it suits her, she is victimizer. Does he imagine he is battling for her soul?”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: action, adventure, danger, fiction, fiction-novel, insight, mystery, noir-mystery, unpredictable

350 likes

#2

“Many professionals on LinkedIn are experts who are always willing to help students; they like young ambition, and they would like to pass their expertise on to others!”
― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University

tags: ambition, career-advice, linked-in, mentorship, nonfiction, professional-learning, student-networking

67 likes

#3

“Alick Rae was in the zone.”
― J L MARRAIN, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

tags: adventure, book-quotes, coming-of-age, fantasy, new-beginnings, portal-fantasy, readers, teen-protagonist

61 likes

#4

“Storm-grey eyes, broad shoulders encased in a dark blue suit jacket. Jaw carved from some righteous, attorney-like stone. My brother Evan's old friend. My teenage crush. And now, to my surprise, my new boss.”
― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance

tags: forbidden-attraction, long-time-crush, new-boss, page-turner-romance, romancebooks, slow-burn-tension, suited-up, swoony-moments, workplace-romance

133 likes

#5

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animal-adventure, character-voice, funny-books, humor, kids-books, middle-grade, read-aloud, snappy-dialogue, talking-animals

43 likes

#6

“The Future Isn’t As Scary As It Looks”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: anxiety-relief, courage, hope, keep-going, life-lessons, new-beginnings, philosophical-fiction

82 likes

#7

“When constructing your travel capsule, each item you pack should be a multitasking hero, contributing to several outfits.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: capsule-wardrobe, minimalist-packing, outfit-planning, packing-tips, travel-style-guide, versatile-style, wardrobe-strategy

35 likes

#8

“People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: battles, death, determination, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, grit, inspiring, soldiers, veterans

193 likes

#9

“Words are annoying to read...”
― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words

tags: funny-kids-books, kids-lit, picture-book, read-aloud, reading-mood, reluctant-reader, storytime

70 likes

#10

“forget what you know”
― John C. Waugh, busted haiku

tags: fresh-start, micro-poetry, mindfulness, minimalist-poetry, poetry, poetry-lovers, reflective-reads, zen-vibes

52 likes

#11

“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

62 likes

#12

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

78 likes

#13

“No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: book-quotes

26 likes

#14

“Where do memories go once we’ve lost our ability to summon them? It”
― Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

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#15

“She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

tags: dreams, l-m-montgomery, solitude

53 likes

#16

“Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors reassure him, flash lights in his eyes, checks his pules. I'm disappointed that mine was not the first face he saw when he woke up, but he sees it now. His features registrer disbelief and something more intense that I can't quite place. Desire? Desperation? Surely both, for he sweeps the doctors aside, leaps to his feets and moves towards me. I run to meet him, my arms extended to embrace him. His hands are reaching for mine too, to caress my face, I think.

My lips are forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

tags: hunger-games, katniss, meeting, mockingjay, peeta, suffocate

297 likes

#17

“Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened.
He was home again.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

51 likes

#18

“Human destiny is not controlled by humans alone anymore”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: book-quotes, fate-and-choice, future-society, human-nature, political-sci-fi, sci-fi, tech-ethics, thought-provoking

38 likes

#19

“Well, it appears my feathery quill has just as much power, influence, and value as any robber baron, for it evidently pricked your boorish skin!”
― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age

tags: gilded-age, historical-fiction, journalism, literary-quotes, period-drama-vibes, social-commentary, speaking-truth, wit-and-edge

63 likes

#20

“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

156 likes

#21

“In a world where every item in your suitcase must earn its place to avoid breaching the weight limit, you must master the art of efficient packing.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: capsule-wardrobe, carry-on-life, light-packing, luggage-limits, packing-tips, travel-essentials, travel-smarter

49 likes

#22

“He says it was tourists being careless, where I see a fiendishly clever murder attempt.”
“Mr. McCarthy, you’d better explain.”
“Patrick, please. You’ll be tempted to laugh. It was a banana skin.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: betrayal, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, murder-mystery, mystery, noir-mystery, suspense

373 likes

#23

“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

53 likes

#24

“At that time, her core burned relentlessly with passion, desire, and complete disorientation. Their union was officiated by a queen she’d only heard of in folklore, and the people of the valleys reached for her and clamored to see the bride like she was their elixir. All of this only intensified the yearnings pulsing through her body and soul. She remembers one young lady, a commoner really, who pushed in from a crowd, sweaty and pregnant, to grab Lylitte’s hand. She locked eyes with her and saw the fever raging inside; it was in all the people in those days, the shamelessness, and a lust for all things of the new world. It was like a hurricane for life that no one could understand who hadn’t felt it.
“Only when we experience true loss are we pulled back into our own dreaming,”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: big-feelings, court-intrigue, epic-romance, fantasy-vibes, forbidden-love, myth-and-sci-fi, mythic-fiction, romantic-sci-fi, sensual-writing, sff-romance

150 likes

#25

“And she was right. No matter how they tried, the two humans, with the cat but without the microchip, couldn’t connect to headquarters. Raya heard a loud popping sound in her mind, like a huge rubber band being snapped, like a glider plane released from a Piper Cub.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, occult, supernatural, teen-ya, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

439 likes

#26

“Use your new distance vision; we are very high up, it is difficult for anyone to see us,” said Sirmiq to Alick.”
― J.L. Marrain, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

tags: dragons, fantasy, high-adventure, magic-powers, portal-fantasy, quest-story, training-arc, ya

33 likes

#27

“Fear! Angel answered. I am Angel. I fear nothing.”
― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode

tags: adventure, bold-characters, book-quotes, bravado, fantasy, humor, middle-grade, pirates

63 likes

#28

“But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the place where she really belonged, where it was always warm and you could dance in the rain, pick grapes right off the vines, and sleep outside at night under the stars.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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#29

“The water was not God. The water undulating slightly with the waves unformed was not spiritual. It was jagged cold water and it felt perfect when we put our hands into it, and it kissed out palms again and again, would never stop kissing our palms — and why wasn't that enough?”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

tags: god, spirituality

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