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    Therisa Peimer
    “Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: adventure, cult, death, drama, dystopian, fiction, future, mystery, sci-fi
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    Sara Pascoe
    “The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal
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    Jim Fergus
    “Ah but Art never fails anyone, magic and medicine may certainly fail, but never Art.”
    ― Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving,
    Seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly,
    That, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: love, passion
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Herman Wouk
    “usurpation.”
    ― Herman Wouk, The Winds of War
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    Lucian Bane
    “Too bad she’d never finished anything in her life, then she might know more than just enough to know she didn't know nearly enough. The”
    ― Lucian Bane, Reginald Bones 3
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    Tennessee Williams
    “I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Collected Stories
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    Chad Boudreaux
    “But things had changed, and now she sat in her car outside her childhood residence staring at an open gate with a fifteen-inch Bowie knife in her lap, thinking. ”
    ― Chad Boudreaux, Homecoming Queen: A Small-Town Political Thriller
    tags: action, curiosity, drama, exhilarating, fiction, fiction-novel, investigator, mystery, sleuth
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    Candace L. Talmadge
    “Good evening, Sergeant,” Helen said. “What’s that?”
    He held the bag out to her. “A present for Lieutenant Angel. Something
    to eat on your journey.”
    She took it and put it back on the desk. “Wipe that damn grin off
    your face, Sergeant. A smiling Toltec is a contradiction in terms.”
    ― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
    tags: ancient-civilizations, courage, fantasy-fiction, forbidden-knowledge, hidden-lineage, outcast, political-scandal, power-struggles, spiritual-journey, tension
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    Don Hynes
    “Something dark and unseen
    breaks into awareness,
    bursting like a mushroom
    with the full throat of desire.
     ”
    ― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
    tags: choice, happiness, inspiring, kindness, life-and-living, life-lessons, motivating, optimism, positive, positive-attitude
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  • #12
    “I've learned, my dear—never give your heart away to a man who doesn't want or deserve it.”
    ― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht
    tags: adult-fiction, book-quotes, dating-advice, goodreads, heart-guarding, romance-reads, self-respect, women-supporting-women
    299 likes

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    Charles Dowding
    “Close spacing is not crowding when light, moisture, and timing are working for you.”
    ― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests
    tags: garden-strategy, intensive-planting, kitchen-garden, no-dig, productive-gardening, small-space-growing, vegetable-garden
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  • #14
    “People are becoming more and more like pets in digital cages, where the only meaning of their lives is to consume and isolate themselves from others like themselves.”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: digitalage, modernlifecritique, philosophicalfiction, screentime, socialcommentary, thoughtprovokingreads, wakeupcall
    478 likes

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  • #15
    “Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: life, philosophical, philosophical-musings
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    Alexander Hamilton
    “vicissitudes”
    ― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
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    Misty Mount
    “When I moved my hands down away from the window I caught sight of my reflection in the glass, bright against the black morning beyond. I couldn’t contain the audible gasp that sounded in my throat. I had expected to see the slightly translucent representation of my face mirrored on the pane, but instead I saw an ivory haze where my features should have been.”
    ― Misty Mount, The Shadow Girl
    tags: discovery, fantasy, friendship, introvert, invisible, isolated, lonely, mystery, teen-girl, young-adult
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    Albert Camus
    “Integrity has no need of rules.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: integrity
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    Eugene O'Neill
    “EDMUND: "[...] A fost o mare greșeală că m-am născut om. M-aș fi descurcat mai bine ca pescăruș ori pește. Așa, o să fiu mereu un străin care nu se simte niciodată în largul lui, care nu dorește cu adevărat și nu e dorit cu adevărat, care nu poate să-și găsească niciodată locul și care trebuie să fie tot timpul un pic indrăgostit de moarte".
    (Eugene O'Neill - Lungul drum al zilei către noapte)”
    ― Eugene O'Neill
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    Victoria Dougherty
    “Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans - excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed by anyone or anything.”
    ― Victoria Dougherty, The Bone Church
    tags: cold-war, historical-fiction, thriller, wwii
    121 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
    tags: inspirational
    14557 likes



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