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    M.R. Noble
    “You can burn brighter than they can, if you have too.”
    ― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes
    tags: avenger, dark-magic, falsely-accused, fantasy, magical-world, mythical-creatures, on-the-run, romance, underworld, vampires
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    Lynda [Wolters] Riggers
    “We are left wondering why we are having good days, why we are surviving. It is curious that survivor's guilt could befall a cancer patient.”
    ― Lynda Wolters, Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
    tags: anger, emotions, experiences-quotes, feeling-scared, feelings, health, pain, positivity, suffering
    6 likes

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    Kirsten Fullmer
    “Heidi's role as grand master was to monitor all the women and to manage their locations and communication. Even though she’d done this many times on multiple missions, her heartbeat still pounded in her ears.”
    ― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street
    tags: cozy-mystery, cozy-romance, small-town-mystery
    379 likes

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  • #4
    Max Nowaz
    “Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
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    Peter B. Forster
    “Yesterday was surreal. At times K was almost back to herself…funny…interested and relatively mobile. She was tactile and we kissed…she whispered naughty comments into my ear…achingly beautiful…I love her so much”
    ― Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
    tags: life, memoir, truth
    412 likes

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  • #6
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “these are my enticements, and they are sufficent to conquer all fear and danger or death... with the induction of the joy of a child feels when embarks a little boat.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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  • #7
    Aravind Adiga
    “La storia della vita di un povero è scritta sul suo corpo, con una matita ben temperata.”
    ― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
    tags: biografia, povero, vita
    3 likes

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  • #8
    E.M. Forster
    “Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.”
    ― E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
    60 likes

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  • #9
    T.S. Eliot
    “Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
    tags: dare, part, peach
    46 likes

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  • #10
    Margery Williams Bianco
    “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?” “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
    ― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
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  • #11
    Tracy Chevalier
    “Everything engravers do gets printed opposite. The engraver has to be able to see it both ways.”
    ― Tracy Chevalier, Burning Bright
    tags: objectivity, opposites, philosophical, william-blake
    3 likes

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  • #12
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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  • #13
    Erich Segal
    “Her handwriting was curious — small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).”
    ― Erich Segal, Love Story
    tags: e-e-cummings, love
    41 likes

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  • #14
    Tamora Pierce
    “I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Squire
    tags: humor, jokes, kel, raoul
    139 likes

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  • #15
    George Eliot
    “How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: compassion, pride, self-centeredness
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  • #16
    S.E. Hinton
    “bewildering feeling of being rushed, things are happening too quick. Too fast. I figured I couldn’t get into any worse trouble than murder. Johnny and I would be hiding for the rest of our lives. Nobody but Dally would know where we were, and he couldn’t tell anyone because he’d get jailed again for giving us that gun. If Johnny got caught, they’d give him the electric chair, and if they caught me, I’d be sent to a reformatory. I’d heard about reformatories from Curly Shepard and I didn’t want to go to one at all. So we’d have to be hermits for the”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
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  • #17
    Raz Mihal
    “The past of suffering is quietly hunting us all.”
    ― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her
    tags: innerstruggle, quiethunt, sufferingpast
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    Sheridan Brown
    “The cold buried deep inside the bones of her hands, her feet, her head, her back…everywhere. Viola felt old, chilled, and exflunctified. She brushed away her snow-white hair and with gnarled fingers tried tucking it under the black, lacy, silk nightcap that her great niece Annie had sewn for her. Each day, her clothes consisted of a long, white, embroidered nightgown, and a soft, warm, lavender sontag with the hair brooch secured upon her left shoulder. The few pleasures she had since she could no longer see were those of having mail or newspaper stories read to her by relatives who took turns caring for her. She could not tolerate people or activity. Food and drink were tasteless. Although the family made many attempts at a tray of concoctions for her each day, she had just quit eating. She remained closed in her bedroom in this dizzy age, propped in bed, eyes shut with her memories. “Who knew I would live this long?”
    ― Sheridan Brown, The Viola Factor
    tags: african-american, civil-war, education, mental-health, outspoken, principles, roots, self-discovery, servant, unjust
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    Susan Rowland
    “But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, murder, psychological, suspense, thriller
    466 likes

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  • #20
    A.R. Merrydew
    “Artificial Intelligence never stops for lunch. The human race will loose their place at the table very soon.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew
    tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, futuristic, technology
    91 likes

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  • #21
    Larada Horner-Miller
    “I knew it was cold, but singing familiar Christmas songs and the fellowship warmed me through and through—until we stopped in front of a bank and saw the temperature on its marquee: six degrees below zero!”
    ― Larada Horner-Miller, Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir
    tags: christmas-carols, christmas-decorations, father-christmas, journey, memoir, prose, snow, sweets, traditional-stories, uplifting
    14 likes

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  • #22
    Victoria Aveyard
    “Our paths may be horrible, but they're the paths we made for ourselves.”
    ― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm
    tags: maven-calore, war-storm
    84 likes

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  • #23
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “Discovering and being authentic to our-selves, finding out what we want to do and do not want to do—we do this by being committed to our own experiences. We must do everything because it brings us joy and peace, from the job we have to the clothes we wear.”
    ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living
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  • #24
    Robert Munsch
    “I'll love you forever,
    I'll like you for always,
    As long as I'm living
    my baby you'll be.”
    ― Robert Munsch, Love You Forever
    tags: childhood
    125 likes

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  • #25
    Robert Ludlum
    “there was no television in the Netherlands during the afternoons!”
    ― Robert Ludlum, The Aquitaine Progression
    tags: civilization
    5 likes

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  • #26
    Sun Tzu
    “The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: business, strategy, war
    37 likes

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  • #27
    Nikolas Schreck
    “...What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.”
    ― Nikolas Schreck
    tags: bob-larson, occult, paganism, satan
    62 likes



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