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    Sara Pascoe
    “When I'm hung-over I try to imagine being old and look- ing back fondly on now, on this bit I'm currently living, and how in retrospect it might seem adventurous. In the future when I only ever sit in a chair because I'm too gnarled for pleasure or movement I'll remember when I stayed out all night and had life-changing conversations and walked all the way home because I lost my phone.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo
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    Max Nowaz
    “You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,” shrieked his hellish voice. Whether the beast was a man in a mask or a demon of his imagination, made little difference to Adam, He was petrified.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: action, danger, fear, fiction, fiction-novel, insight, thriller, trauma, unpredictable
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    Astrid Lindgren
    “Das habe ich noch nie vorher versucht. Also bin ich völlig sicher, dass ich es schaffe!”
    ― Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Langstrumpf
    tags: mut, optimismus
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  • #4
    Eoin Colfer
    “Me," Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut."
    Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell.
    "I'm the nut!" Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex
    tags: artemis-fowl, humor, nut, squid
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  • #5
    Malcolm Gladwell
    “Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell
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    Bev Stout
    “He glared at her. "Aye, and you shall be the best cabin boy I have ever had or I will feed you to the sharks. Savvy?" He turned and stomped back to the
    ship”
    ― Bev Stout, Secrets of the Realm
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    Raymond Chandler
    “His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
    tags: brooklyn, humor, new-york-city
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  • #8
    Tom Robbins
    “If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
    tags: writing
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  • #9
    “she still felt she was a librarian and always would be, no matter what else she had become as well. “We”
    ― Garth Nix, Goldenhand
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  • #10
    Tina Traverse
    “This world we live in is confusing, overwhelming and painful because he has a condition known as autism.”
    ― Tina Traverse, Forever, Christian
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  • #11
    Thomas Paine
    “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
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    Rick Riordan
    “Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works.
    I am praying. I'm talking to you, right?
    Oh...yes. Good point. Amphitrite - incoming!”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
    tags: gods, percy, poseidon, pray
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    Edwin A. Abbott
    “Well, then, if a Point by moving three inches, makes a Line of three inches represented by 3; and if a straight Line of three inches, moving parallel to itself, makes a Square of three inches every way, represented by 32; it must be that a Square of three inches every way, moving somehow parallel to itself (but I don’t see how) must make Something else (but I don’t see what) of three inches every way—and this must be represented by 33.” “Go to bed,” said I, a little ruffled by his interruption: “if you would talk less nonsense, you would remember more sense.” So”
    ― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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  • #14
    James Joyce
    “All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”
    ― James Joyce
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    Lesley Glaister
    “Aida watches Dennis open his tobacco pouch and stuff his pipe. As a child she was entranced by the process, and the glamorous stink of it, the special words: flake, shag, shank, dottle. He told her that each pipe had its own ghost, which is the taste when you suck it, empty and cold. Sometimes he let her taste the ghost.”
    ― Lesley Glaister, A Particular Man
    tags: cross-generational, forbidden-connections, lies, loss-of-identity, love, powerful, relationships, sacrifice, secrets-and-lies, truth
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  • #16
    “What is real for us is what we observe and recognize. We create our own experiences by our recognition and imagination, and we modulate the energies with our emotions.”
    ― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
    tags: awareness, beings-of-light, energy, infinite, intuition, quantum-state, raising-vibrations, self-awareness, vibrational-energy
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  • #17
    A.R. Merrydew
    “Somethings wrong,’ he told her.
    ‘Be specific Jack,’ she said pressuring him.
    Jack turned again to the desert. ‘We should already be dead,’ he said. ‘That’s what’s wrong.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
    tags: android, fast-paced, future, gripping, literary-fiction, mission, mystery, tags-adventure, thrilling
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  • #18
    “Them that’s gots, gets.” My uncle replied.”
    ― R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach
    tags: 1960s-nostalgia, family-conflicts, insightful, loss, nostalgia-fiction, simpler-times, suburban-nostalgia, trust-and-betrayal, warmth, youthful-perspective
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  • #19
    “There will be a time when I will answer everything, Avelyn. But it is far in the future for you.”
    ― Jack Borden, The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel
    tags: character-growth, dark-lands, determination, dramatic, fantasy-series, heart-stopping, overcoming-fear, reluctant-hero, sacrifice, toadskunks
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  • #20
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Notation on Quark Manipulation as Applied to the Time/Space Continuum.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: action, compelling, different-worlds, family-love, fiction, hero, marriage, power, romance, thrilling
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    Richard Matheson
    “Everything seemed to flood over him then. It was as though he’d been the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, refusing to let the sea of reason in.”
    ― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
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  • #22
    There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling
    “There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: friendship, happiness, inspirational
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    Peggy Parish
    “Amelia Bedelia," said Mrs. Rogers,
    "Christmas is just around the corner."
    "It is?" said Amelia Bedelia. "Which corner?"
    Mrs. Rogers lauhged and said,
    "I mean tomorrow is Christmas Day."
    "I know that," said Amelia Bedelia.”
    ― Peggy Parish, Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia
    tags: humor
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  • #24
    Johanna Spyri
    “Foresight is a virtue and averts many a misfortune.”
    ― Johanna Spyri, Heidi
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  • #25
    Anthony Burgess
    “I must give up seeing people, I told myself.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
    tags: people
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  • #26
    David Sedaris
    “I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.”
    ― David Sedaris
    tags: animals, deer, possessions
    112 likes



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