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    “I can smack a ball-bearing between your abusive fiancé’s eyes before his wingtips hit the sidewalk.”
    ― M.S.M. Barkawitz
    tags: crime, crime-thriller, dark, fast-paced, murder, mystery, noir-fiction, thriller
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    Mark M. Bello
    “What tenacity! What spirit! I feel so alive in her presence. I can conquer the world with her by my side. If she'd let him, he'd violate his rule about becoming involved with a client . . .”
    ― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal of Faith
    tags: abuse-of-power, child-abuse, church, cover-up, emotional, justice, peadophilia, priest, religion, sexual-abuse
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    Behcet Kaya
    “Ludicrous? Seems like wherever you go, trouble follows you.”
    “Look, Deputy Lawson. I had nothing to do with all this. I was just have a beer and minding my own business until this woman sat down next to me and said, ‘Can you help me, Mr. Ludef…’ She didn’t even finish the sentence. The next thing I know she’s laying on the deck. I don’t know who she is or why she sought me out.”
    “Seems like I’ve heard this story before. You have a nasty reputation of people dying around you.”
    “You know better. That comes with the occupation.”
    “And you know the drill. Don’t leave town until we get to the bottom of this.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate
    tags: crime, fiction, murder-mystery
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  • #4
    M.R. Noble
    “A star becomes a sun, under the pressure of darkness.”
    ― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes
    tags: avenger, dark-magic, falsely-accused, fantasy, magical-world, mythical-creatures, on-the-run, romance, underworld, vampires
    93 likes

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  • #5
    William Gibson
    “There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments of vast disturbance, as in the strife of Nature itself, some new principle of order, or some new impulse of conduct, develops itself, and controls, and regulates, and brings to an harmonious consequence, passions and elements which seem only to threaten despair and subversion.”
    ― William Gibson
    tags: inspirational, the-difference-engine, thoughts
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  • #6
    Jeffrey Archer
    “Harry would have laughed if he hadn't been sitting in No.lO Downing Street opposite one of the busiest men in the country.”
    ― Jeffrey Archer
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    Madeline Miller
    “He liked the way the obsidian reflected his light, the way its slick surfaces caught fire as he passed. Of course, he did not consider how black it would be when he was gone. My father has never been able to imagine the world without himself in it.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, helios, poetic
    130 likes

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  • #8
    Jerome K. Jerome
    “There was a time, long ago, when I used to clamour for the hard work: now I like to give the youngsters a chance.”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
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  • #9
    Christopher Hitchens
    “Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality
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  • #10
    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
    858 likes

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  • #11
    Lotchie Burton
    “The image of the sensual, sleep-laden Naomi made him smile. And wish he’d been lying on the pillow next to her when she’d opened her eyes. Lucky pillow.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire
    tags: action, adventure, discovery, drama, emotions, fiction, intrigue, mystery, romance
    380 likes

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  • #12
    J. Rose Black
    “If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement. Just him, a quiet mind and his breath.”
    ― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath
    tags: drama, fiction, fun, general-fiction, laugh-out-loud, love, relationships, romance-novel, satire-fiction, suspense
    467 likes

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  • #13
    “It is working for God, not a boss. Maybe you will get a raise in consciousness.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: drama, empathy, healing, imagination, imaginery, insight, meditating, meditation, second-person, self-love
    207 likes

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  • #14
    Rebecca Harlem
    “You were always afraid of being caught while making love, and that fear never allowed you to completely surrender to any of your partners.”
    ― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac
    tags: confidence, discovery, experience, explore, fantasy, happiness, perspective, plot-twists, self-discovery, sexy
    140 likes

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  • #15
    “Deliverance is not scary—it is the most beautiful, loving act of Jesus. It is the moment someone finally walks into the freedom that was always meant for them.”
    ― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression
    tags: destiny, focus, god, grow, learn, love, peace, spirit, teaching, views
    654 likes

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    Susan Rowland
    “Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman’s silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: fiction-novel, murder, past-experiences, personal-relationships, power, psychological, tense, thriller
    450 likes

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    Nicholas Sparks
    “I've been thinking about you constantly since I left, wondering why the journey I'm on seemed to have led through you. I know my journey's not over yet, and that life is a winding path, but I can only hope it somehow circles back to the place I belong. That's how I think of it now. I belong with you.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe
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    Jonathan Swift
    “os nossos historiógrafos, há seis mil luas, não fazem referência a outras regiões senão aos dois grandes impérios de Lilipute e de Blefuscu. Estas duas poderosas
    potências têm, como ia dizendo, andado empenhadas, durante trinta e seis luas, numa guerra”
    ― Jonathan Swift, Viagens de Gulliver
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    Donna Tartt
    “You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming together,things falling apart,time warp, my mother standing out in front of the museum when time flickered and the light went funny, uncertainties hovering on the edge of a vast brightness. the stray chance that might, or might not, change everything.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
    tags: chance, fate, life, meaning
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  • #20
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: franklin, liberty, safety, state
    23 likes



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