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    Alan Bradley
    “We raced around, drinking and shouting out the windows into the night, finding parties to sneak into or bars that never closed. We wandered the night without fear, went skinny dipping in Central Park Lake at 3 a.m., and found dark clubs playing deafening EDM to dance to until we collapsed.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough
    tags: action, facade, fiction, haunted, magic, mystery, secrets, suspense-action-fiction, thriller, trauma
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    Steven Decker
    “Assemble the links Piece by piece. Then travel through time And earn your release.”
    ― Steven Decker, Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel
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    Andri E. Elia
    “Inseparable as sibs—strained as a couple.”
    ― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
    tags: action, adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, urban-fantasy
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    Raz Mihal
    “Fate settled these moments with Her, being a soulmate connected with my soul since the beginning of time.”
    ― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her
    tags: fateanddestiny, soulmateconnection, timelesslove
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    Stella Sinclaire
    “He always was a stubborn mule. But who would actually kill him over vegetables? It just doesn’t add up.”
    ― Stella Sinclaire, Fertile Ground for Murder
    tags: blame, confrontation, danger, discovery, drama, evidence, forbidden-love, love, psychological, tense
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    Susan Rowland
    “   In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, fictional, horror, thriller
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    K. Ritz
    “Mead.
    O sweet elixir,
    Ye bless the lips and steal the wits.
     ”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, dramatic, engaging, exciting, fantasy, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit
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    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”
    ― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows
    tags: adventure, danger, drama, emotional, emotions, family, fiction, literary, literary-fiction, loss
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    Max Nowaz
    “Just now he was on a mind-blowing adventure and it was rapidly spiralling out of control, and this is what he needed to concentrate his mind on. How could he squeeze Daley to get the book back; that’s if Daley had it in his possession in the first place? The next few days were going to be crucial.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
    tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller
    418 likes

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    Olive Ann Burns
    “Lordmakeusthankfulfortheseandallourmanyblessin’s.Amen”
    ― Olive Ann Burns, Leaving Cold Sassy
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    Dalton Trumbo
    “A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?”
    ― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
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    Robert Frost
    “Nature's first green is gold,
    Her hardest hue to hold.
    Her early leaf's a flower;
    But only so an hour.
    Then leaf subsides to leaf.
    So Eden sank to grief,
    So dawn goes down to day.
    Nothing gold can stay.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: impermanence, nature, poem
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    Richard Wright
    “In many instances Christianity provides Communism with its justification. Communism is paying the unpaid bills of the Christian church.”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!
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    Louis Sachar
    “Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.”
    ― Louis Sachar
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    John Bunyan
    “lo que Él hizo en obediencia a la ley de su Padre, y al someterse al castigo de ella, no fue para sí mismo sino para aquel que lo acepta para su salvación, y es agradecido.”
    ― John Bunyan, El Progreso del Peregrino
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