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#1

“A look of absolute terror locked onto her features.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#2

“It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Ito finally, who had been keeping very quiet up to this point. “Indeed. How much will it cost?” asked Brown “About twenty million Interplanetary Credits,” said Demba. “A modest investment for a man of your means.” “Indeed,” said Brown again. That was all the money he had, which started to strike him as strange, when his thoughts were interrupted. “We’ll arrange a visit to the mine,” said Ito. “Show you the place itself.” “Indeed,” said Brown. Or had he said that? The strange waking memory he had fallen into started to become repetitive. Reality started to flow back in. Diamonds, thought Brown. All those diamonds in that mine.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: drama, fast-paced, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, suspense-thriller, thriller-novels

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#3

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
― Douglas Adams

tags: humor

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#4

“ambition on a beer budget.”
― Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit

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#5

“Cacopardo stepped back, and raised his hand in a Fascist salute. Then, as his aged memory functioned, the hand wavered over to his forehead, and the salute became military. And he said: "Cacopardo is sulphur and sulphur is Cacopardo.”
― John Hersey, A Bell for Adano

tags: fascist

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#6

“That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: humor

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#7

“Oh, Remy, get off your high horse; everyone knows you have staked your claim on the new guy.”
― Hope Worthington, Shifting Moon: Shifting Moon Saga, Book 1

tags: contemporary-romance, dramatic, engaging, exciting, fantasy, intrigue, paranormal-romance, urban-fantasy, young-adult

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#8

“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
― Sara Pascoe

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#9

“Pythagoras has had me going round in circles for years.”
― Anthony Merrydew”
― A.R. Merrydew

tags: ai, ai-theme, artificial-intelligence, cyberpunk, futuristic, machine-learning, machines, robotics, techno, technology

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#10

“Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
            Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit

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#11

“This is a quantum universe. Everything in it is part of quantum theory, and universal consciousness is the first cause of it all. Everything is electromagnetic energy, and all of the energy patterns are held in consciousness.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

tags: collective, electromagnetic, energy-patterns, existence, frequencies, human-existence, thought-waves, universal-conciousness, universal-energy, waves

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#12

“Jimmy’s dog tag clinked as he almost slid right into her. Teenagers wore dog tags in case New York was bombed and they needed to be identified if killed or injured. Mrs. McCorkle, the O’Shaughnessy’s immediate next door neighbor, had insisted on a dog tag for Jimmy.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: america, discovery, drama, fiction, historical-fiction, historical-investigations, historical-mysteries, history, history-novel, war

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#13

“George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will, she promised herself. She would stake her life that those last words from her son would be solved by her. They were steppingstones into… whatever the wind and the stars and the valiant trees held for her.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

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

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#14

“Looking over the Ethan's bowed head, amidst the tangled forest of Wilderness littered with the bodies of men dead and dying, Victor saw the serene image of his mother. She smiled at her son, her unbound black hair blowing wildly in the breeze. She reached a hand out towards him, and this time, he went with her.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: american-historical-romance, historical-romance, historical-victorian-romance, history, love, passion, romance, torment, victorian-romance

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#15

“من المستحيل أن نشعر أننا أحياء اذا لم نفكر أيضا بأننا سنموت يوما”
― Jostein Gaarder, عالم صوفي

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#16

“But my last conscious thought was an image of Prince Char when he'd caught the bridle of Sir Stephan's horse. His face had been close to mine. Two curls had spilled onto his forehead. A few freckles dusted his nose, and his eyes said he was sorry for me to go.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

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#17

“It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

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#18

“He had long since discovered that peaceful sleep could provide the answer to most puzzles, and if not, what did it really matter? Wasn’t life just a dewdrop within a dewdrop?”
― James Clavell, Shōgun: The Epic Novel of Japan

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#19

“Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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#20

“The real hero is always a hero by mistake.”
― Umberto Eco

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#21

“My people believe in balance,” he said. “We believe that all living things—plants, animals, people—have an intelligent spirit, and that they all make important contributions to the balance of the world.”
― Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

tags: adventure, compelling, dreams, emotional, reality, romance, seeking, sports-romance, survivor, women-s-literature

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#22

“Adrian blew his whistle and shouted, “Attack and put too death all those who oppose the fatherland!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: find-oneself, friendships, learning, life-lessons, love, personal-identity, philosophy, teachings, truths, value

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#23

“Faith continued, “My uncle brought Aleana to the house last autumn, September I think. She didn’t stay long, but she was nice, my mother and I liked her. My mother, Lachlan’s sister, and I both work for my uncle, looking after the house. You must be her friend Raimund. She talked about you and told me to look out for you. She was certain you would come to find her.”
― Robert Reid, The Thief

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#24

“Maybe this immortal thing can also be a curse at times. And it makes me somewhat glad I don’t have it…”
― Cade Mengler, The Companions

tags: adventure-fantasy, dark-fantasy, dark-vs-light, guardian, haunting, hero, magic, prophecy, secrets, tragedy

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#25

“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

845 likes

#26

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: philosophical-musings, reflection

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#27

“I can walk through lava.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

tags: army, danger, different-worlds, freedom, guardians, intergalactic, moons, science-adventure, stars, ya

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#28

“More fundamentally than any of this, though, is their deep fear that if the free market system really has set in motion physical and chemical processes that, if allowed to continue unchecked, threaten large parts of humanity at an existential level, then their entire crusade to morally redeem capitalism has been for naught. With stakes like these, clearly greed is not so very good after all. And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as they admit that climate change is real, they will lose the central ideological battle of our time—whether we need to plan and manage our societies to reflect our goals and values, or whether that task can be left to the magic of the market.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

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#29

“Not that anyone ever asked me, but all the company I ever needed was a book and the breeze at the edge of the ocean. I was happiest when I was alone”
― Brian Selznick, Kaleidoscope

tags: books, loneliness

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#30

“He had never even glimpsed her.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

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