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#1

“My Aspasia. With her, he’d discovered the sweetness in life . . . and she might like to know that. He’d tell her sometime. But he knew he’d given this lovely woman what she’d wanted most, their son’s name. He leaned over to the child. “So, you’re Little Pericles.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: action, drama, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, page-turner, politics, present

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#2

“Life was better than he expected with his new Italian family inheritance, and it felt good to take a deep breath without fear of someone attacking him or his family.”
― Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller

tags: drama, fiction, mystery, noir, organised-crime, page-turner, secrets, suspense, tense, violent

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#3

“To catch a wild animal, you have to use the right bait.
What happens to the bait? I haven't decided yet.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: drama, fiction, future, humanity, invasion, mission, planets, revolution, science, secrets

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#4

“While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’” “‘It’s history, my boy.’” “The grandson comes nearer and exclaims, “‘But this is a porno site, grandpa, naked chicks, sex . . . a lot of sex!’” “‘Well, it’s sex for you, my son, but for me it’s history,’ the old man says with a sigh.” All of people in the cabin burst into laughter. “A stale joke, but a cool one,” added William More, the man who just told the joke. The navigator skillfully guided the flying disc among the dense orange-yellow blanket of clouds in the upper atmosphere that they had just entered. Some of the clouds were touched with a brownish hue at the edges. The rest of the pilots gazed curiously and intently outwards while taking their seats. The flying saucer descended slowly, the navigator’s actions exhibiting confidence. He glanced over at the readings on the monitors below the transparent console: Atmosphere: Dense, 370 miles thick, 98.4% nitrogen, 1.4% methane Temperature on the surface: ‒179°C / ‒290°F Density: 1.88 g/cm³ Gravity: 86% of Earth’s Diameter of the cosmic body: 3200 miles / 5150 km.”
― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

tags: action, adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, machines, robots, sci-fi, science-fiction

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#5

“Black stood naked and stretched. It took twenty minutes to feel normal. Fuck elite. He felt old.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: action, corruption, danger, fantasy, fiction, horror, mercenaries, novel

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#6

“Do you know what an involuntary act signifies? Psychoanalysts say that it reflects the insidious maneuvering of one’s hidden unconscious. What a pointless theory, in fact. When we do something involuntarily, this is the most visible sign of the power of our conscious will; for our will, when opposed by emotion, makes use all of its wiles to attain its ends.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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#7

“It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

tags: relationships

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#8

“If a man with a triangular front and a polygonal back were allowed to exist and to propagate a still more Irregular posterity, what would become of the arts of life? Are the houses and doors and churches in Flatland to be altered in order to accommodate such monsters?”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

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#9

“I feel very silly saying to you, Tell me all about yourself, but I wish you would. I want to get to know you."
That's not how you get to know people. Don't you know? You can't talk it out, you've got to live into their lives, bad and good. You'll know me soon enough. What I want you to know.”
― Katherine Paterson

tags: relationships, truth

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#10

“And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly”
― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

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#11

“Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

tags: choices, life, mistakes

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#12

“If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: androids, artificial-humans, dystopian, exciting, intrigue, invasion, mission, planets, revolution, secrets

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#13

“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, engaging, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery

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#14

“Cognitive robotics can integrate information from pre-operation medical records with real-time operating metrics to guide and enhance the precision of physicians’ instruments. By processing data from genuine surgical experiences, they’re able to provide new and improved insights and techniques. These kinds of improvements can improve patient outcomes and boost trust in AI throughout the surgery. Robotics can lead to a 21% reduction in length of stay.”
― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

tags: balance, education, educational, help, improvement, learning, obstacles, past, present, treatment

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#15

“She could see the headlines now.

‘Spinster dies alone in her condo. No one discovered her corpse for three days.’

She had been so preoccupied with work, that she’d neglected to do the grocery shopping and was now regretting it.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

tags: compelling, contemporary-romance, enemies-to-lovers, fun, literary-fiction, opposites-attract, rom-com, romance-literature, small-town-romance, suspense

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#16

“And now Anderson stood looking at his father. His hands were trembling with eagerness, extending toward him, wanting his father to embrace him. He wanted to love it back to life for all those lost times, for all those times of hope. “Permission to sit, sir?”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

tags: crime, dark, investigatio, murder, mystery, suspense, thriller

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#17

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

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#18

“If I can tell you anything today, it is that you should never, ever believe your eyes. Or your mind, for that matter.”
― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

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#19

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: love, self-love

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#20

“If a shred of integrity fell into your soul, it would die a very lonely death.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Song of the Quarkbeast

tags: humor, insults, integrity

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#21

“At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#22

“Crime does not decrease in proportion to the severest punishment.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Man-Made World

tags: crime, feminism, gender, gender-critical-feminism, government, law, punishment, radical-feminism, sexism, society

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#23

“In the morning a new man was behind the front desk. "And how did you enjoy your stay, Sir?" he asked smoothly.
"It was singularly execrable," I replied.
"Oh, excellent," he purred, taking my card
"In fact, I would go so far as to say that the principal value of a stay in this establishment is that it is bound to make all subsequent service-related experiences seem, in comparison, refreshing."
He made a deeply appreciative expression as if to say, "Praise indeed," and presnted my bill for signature. "Well, we hope you'll come again."
"I would sooner have bowel surgery in the woods with a a stick."
His expression wavered, then held there for a long moment. "Excellent," he said again, but without a great show of conviction.”
― Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country

tags: humor

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#25

“I held my breath and closed my eyes, just listening to the wordless song of falling.”
― J. Rose Black, Chasing Headlines

tags: fiction, iction, love-story, modern, new-life, romance, romance-novel, self-discovery, struggles

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#27

“Leo had just finished reading this when the FANY girl from the decoding department came in with a new message.
‘It’s bad news, I’m afraid.’
Leo read, ‘Stuart killed by a bomb on June 9th. Contact impossible. Air raids all day and walk all night.’
She put the paper down and bowed her head to her desk. It was not the news of Stuart’s death that struck cold terror into her heart. It was tragic, of course, but he had not come from SOE and she had not had time to get to know him well. It was the image that those words conjured up that was hard to bear. Alix was with these people. She was in danger from bombs all day. She was having to walk all night. Leo thought back to the girl she had said goodbye to in Paris back in the spring of 1939, excited by the prospect of starting her course at the Sorbonne. Rumours of war had seemed so distant that neither of them had doubted that they would meet again in a few months.”
― Holly Green, A Call to Home

tags: determination, fiction, intrigue, legacy, passion, political-drama, romance, unpredictable

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#28

“My crystals call to me. You cannot leave without counting your crystals, the internal voice beckons. No. I retaliate against the thought. Garrison, Bryce, Thornton, and Rigel are gone, counting the crystals will not bring them back.”
― Tricia Copeland, To Be a Fae Queen

tags: adventure, enchanting, engaging, fiction, intrigue, magical, supernatural, unpredictable, ya-litterature

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#29

“When you expect torture, kindness is more dangerous.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

tags: drama, emotional, fantasy, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, supernatural-thrille, thriller

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#31

“Enough Is as Good as a feast.”
― Sir Thomas Malory

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#32

“The best of all our actions tend
To the preposterousest end. Samuel Butler: Satire upon
the Weakness and Misery of Man”
― Mary Stewart, Airs Above the Ground

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#33

“Proofs of the week's paper were spread out on what I grandly called my desk. This was a rickety wooden table against the side wall outside the Editor's office.”
― Catherine Marshall, Julie

tags: catherine-marshall, desk, julie, newspaper, paper

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