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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
    tags: drama, exciting, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, page-turner, past, politics, present
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    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
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    “If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: coping-mechanism, philosophical-musings, prison-philosophy
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    Robert Reid
    “To Audun’s amazement, as he spoke the words the staff came alive and red sparks tumbled down and over the wood. The Empress’s face paled. The courtroom froze in stunned silence, and then erupted with a hubbub of noise.”
    ― Robert Reid, The Thief
    tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy
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    Lotchie Burton
    “Yeah. I’m an asshole. But I promise you, when the shit rolls downhill and you need someone with a shovel, I’m an asshole who can get the job done.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire
    tags: change, confidence, courage, curiosity, exciting, exploration, faith, fast-paced, fear, hope
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    K. Ritz
    “At what point does faith become insanity?”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, dramatic, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, magic, mystery, past, wit
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    “If you want to be great, you have to be a leader. You’ve got to listen to me, son. That’s what we brought you here to do, to be a leader. And you can do it.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: biography, experiences, healing, journey, life, life-journey, self-discovery, teaching, time, travel
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    Dawn Chalker
    “Out of the bedroom window, Tara watches the silver moon in the night sky cast a faint glow on the pine trees.  Ian was right.  It’s time to move on.  Not to forget, but to forge ahead.”
    ― Dawn Chalker
    tags: accepting, connection, destiny, feelings, finding-yourself, future, love, motivation, moving-on, uplifting
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    Shafter Bailey
    “Cindy Divine and her parents paused by their boat to take in the natural beauty. Lake Barkley could have been a top-paid model for a glossy postcard company that morning. It lay between little hills all dressed up in new green, and its mirror-like water reflected a cloudless sky everywhere except along the shoreline where the hills were upside down. Clusters of blossoms, dogwood and redbud, were scattered here and there on the hillsides, and a brightening red was coloring the sky along the eastern hilltops.”
    ― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings
    tags: abuse, childhood, courage, courtroom-drama, guardian-angel, hope, inspirational, miracles, overcoming-trauma, resilience
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
    tags: opening-lines
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    Jonathan Swift
    “The Houyhnhnm’s notion of truth and falsehood. The author’s discourse disapproved by his master. The author gives a more particular account of himself, and the accidents of his voyage. M”
    ― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: with original color illustrations by Arthur Rackham
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    Cecelia Ahern
    “At moments when life is at its worst there are two things that you can do:
    1. Breakdown, lose hope and refuse to go on while lying on the facedown on the ground banging your fist and kicking your legs.
    2. Laugh”
    ― Cecelia Ahern, A Place Called Here
    tags: inspirational
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    Jean M. Auel
    “La carencia misma de responsabilidad le producía sentimientos contradictorios: una sensación inusitada de libertad al mismo tiempo que una frustración inexplicable.”
    ― Jean M. Auel, The Valley of Horses
    tags: libertad, responsabilidad
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    Paramahansa Yogananda
    “The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.”
    ― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
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    James Fenimore Cooper
    “Where are the blossoms of those summers!-fallen, one by one: so all of my family departed, each in his turn, to the land of the spirits.”
    ― James Fenimore Cooper
    tags: ancestors, death
    10 likes



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