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#1

“Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover to rescue the Scroll’s Key Keeper? Where were the College’s thanks for that?”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, betrayal, detective, drama, fiction, investigation, realistic, suspense, thriller

450 likes

#2

“GLOBAL TEMPERATURES HAVE LOWERED BY ONE DEGREE. GLOBEWIDE NATURAL INGREDIENT SHORTAGE IN EFFECT AS OF THIS MESSAGE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

tags: absurd, conflicting-desires, desire, disorientation, existential-despair, exploring, freedom, self-doubt, unease, vivid

138 likes

#3

“Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

467 likes

#4

“Killing people is considered not just illegal Sally, it’s generally accepted as bad behavior.”
― Michael Deeze, The Deathbed Confessions

tags: betrayal, dangerous, deception, dramatic, lies, organised-crime, police, prison-sentence, revenge, secrets

14 likes

#5

“Ketal is not hell! It’s the K’tul homeworld. What is the difference?”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

tags: action-and-adventure, adventure, fantasy-adventure, fiction-writing, love, magical, mystery, sci-fi, universe

131 likes

#6

“Mead.
O sweet elixir,
Ye bless the lips and steal the wits.
”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, engaging, exciting, fantasy, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit

889 likes

#7

“Maeve glanced around at the tables and watched the couples sitting close to each other laughing, holding hands, or staring into each other’s eyes. She felt that familiar ache thinking of Evan, missing him, and the emptiness it caused at times like this when she was alone.”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

tags: americans, challenges, fighting, freedom, patriotic, rationing, resources, soldier, treachery, wwii

68 likes

#8

“All happened so damn fast,” he said. “’Phone call here after she arrived. Her mom and dad were just after leaving Halifax…ten cars, twelve maybe, made it onto the CBC News.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: climatic, crime, drama, emotionally-charged, fiction, intrigue, mystery, profound, tense, unpredictable

119 likes

#9

“I don’t think so, said the captain. Their ship is clearly outfitted with weapons systems that it did not have when it left Terrene over 600 years ago. And they are pointed directly at us.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

tags: action, contemporary, death, drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, general, past

61 likes

#10

“In your heart, you will always be African, but in America you are a Black American. It is possible and desirable to be both.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

tags: biography, dare-to-dream, determination, dreams, grit, hope, inspiring, life-journey, memoir, true-life-events

44 likes

#11

“Most of us are naturally inclined to struggle against the restrictions our friends and family impose upon us, but if we are so unfortunate as to lose a loved one, what a difference then! Then the restriction becomes a sacred trust.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

tags: death, inspirational, life, losing, restriction, trust

21 likes

#12

“We are stronger when we unite.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Rise of Nine

8 likes

#13

“Bedways is rightways now, so best we go homeways.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

24 likes

#14

“Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: culture, ray-bradbury, trash, treasure, writing

54 likes

#15

“He who wishes to fight must first count the cost,”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

12 likes

#16

“Noren noted the two tall Coelete warriors. “You travel in strange company, Alex. I have heard of the deeds of the Red Cameron and note your colours, but those two are from the stories our forefathers told of a tribe of tall warriors that live in the mountains in the north and who helped the early settlers of Erwick build our town.”
― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

tags: danger, drama, fantasy, intrigue, mystery, noir-thriller, suspense, tense, thriller

28 likes

#17

“Her quiet sobs were absorbed into the aria of their voices, their protection and love enveloping her pain and carrying her song.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: community, found-family, grief, historical-fiction, hopeful-moments, lyrical-prose, music, venice

156 likes

#18

“Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: editing, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing

345 likes

#19

“I would caution you—ambition is a deadly disease.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: ambition, christian-fantasy, dark-fantasy, darkness, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, political-fantasy, quote-of-the-day

427 likes

#20

“At the heart of his deepest traumas lay a singular, scorching reality: fire.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

tags: character-arc, crime-thriller, dark-suspense, fbi-profiler, fire-motif, psychological-thriller, trauma

136 likes

#21

“Counselor Bingham and I looked inside, then looked at each other. He counted. Then I counted. There were thirteen mobile phones in the box, two of them were Android. The rest were all iPhones.”
― Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance

tags: action, adventure, crime, dramatic, iphone, murder, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller

55 likes

#22

“Crete, May 1941. It was nearly five o’clock when the three soldiers reached the end of the olive grove. The dust-filled air shimmered in the late-afternoon heat. Their bodies ached, their uniforms were caked with dirt and sweat and they were hungry, thirsty and exhausted. The sensible thing now would be to lay up where they were for a few hours’ rest, then finish the journey under cover of darkness. But there was a tight deadline to meet. The evacuation vessel was scheduled to leave at midnight and they had been warned the captain wouldn’t wait for stragglers.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

tags: documented, indochina-war, insightful, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

329 likes

#23

“phylacteries.”
― Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance

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#24

“Of course killing Iraqis for Jesus so we can get their oil...”
― Vincent Panettiere, Shared Sorrows

tags: drama, fiction, fiction-novel, guilt, love, mystery-novel, redemption, romance, sorrow, suffering

44 likes

#25

“That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

30 likes

#26

“Watson,” says Frank, “experiment time. Could you go into the kitchen and get one balloon, two packets of salt, three packets of pepper, and one plastic spoon?” “That sounds about as scientific as . . . my peashooter,” says Watson, heading for the kitchen as Frank and the robots finish cleaning up the lab. Watson returns with the experiment supplies. “I can’t wait to see what you make with this.” Frank rips open the salt and pepper packets and dumps everything into one pile on the table. He blows up the balloon. “Rub this on your head, Watson.” Watson rubs the balloon on his head. “Oh, this is much more scientific.” “Just watch,” says Frank. “Now put the balloon over the salt and pepper.” Watson moves the balloon. The positively charged, lighter pieces of pepper separate from the heavier pieces of salt and stick to the balloon. “Wireless,” says Frank. “And cheap. Now watch this.” Frank rubs the plastic spoon on Watson’s sweater. He turns the water on in the lab sink so that a small, steady stream flows out. “Observe.” Frank puts the spoon near the water column. “No way!” says Watson. “The water is bending toward the spoon!” Klink beeps, “In both cases, extra negative charge caused by gathering electrons . . . attracts positively charged pepper pieces and water stream.”
― Jon Scieszka, Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger (Frank Einstein series #2): Book Two

33 likes

#27

“On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war

199 likes