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“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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#2

“With Wallace, Ali became one of the best-travelled young Malay men of the time.”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

tags: biographical-novel, deep, experiences, friendship, love, real-life, sadness, separation, true-story, uncertainty

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#3

“It became visible as a firefly in the dark that the political climate was swiftly getting more and more oppressive.”
― Rafael Polo, Growing Up American

tags: beliefs, courage, emotional, honest, inspiring, naval-officer, noble, novel, truth

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#4

“Suddenly in the line of solders, she saw him. The boy who had killed Morris. She knew he was Morris’ killer. There was no mistake.”
― Beverly Magid, Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle

tags: discovery, drama, fiction, historical-fiction, historical-romance, love, mystery, pain, powerful, romance

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#5

“It is time to stop drinking the Kool-Aid, get off the cruise-ship church, jump into the battleship Church and start moving into the purpose and destiny that God has for you.”
― John Ramirez, Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom

tags: biblical, christ, christian, christian-spiritual-growth, christianity, deliverance-from-evil, faith-in-god, spiritual, spiritual-freedom, spiritual-welfare

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#6

“I had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps.”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome

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#7

“When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.”
― Nelson Mandela

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#8

“I opened the bag and packed the boots in; and then, just as I was going to close it, a horrible idea occurred to me. Had I packed my tooth-brush? I don’t know how it is, but I never do know whether I’ve packed my tooth-brush.

My tooth-brush is a thing that haunts me when I’m travelling, and makes my life a misery. I dream that I haven’t packed it, and wake up in a cold perspiration, and get out of bed and hunt for it. And, in the morning, I pack it before I have used it, and have to unpack again to get it, and it is always the last thing I turn out of the bag; and then I repack and forget it, and have to rush upstairs for it at the last moment and carry it to the railway station, wrapped up in my pocket-handkerchief.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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#9

“Once ‘free’ in the streets, what then? Fear and panic could destroy the city as much as plague itself. Many of the doctors fled, along with the rich and powerful; quacks preyed on the poor with their neverfail miracle drugs. Churches and conventicles and synagogues were empty. Neighbours informed against each other. People lied to each other – and to themselves. (It’s just a headache. Just a little bruise. I’ll feel better if I go for a walk.) Worse – there were stories of infected people deliberately concealing their telltale ‘tokens’ and going out into the streets trying to infect others.”
― Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

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#10

“The sculptor is master of time; he can change his subjects forward or back.”
― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy

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#11

“Many had predicted that Robert would devote himself to Mrs. Pontellier when he arrived. Since the age of fifteen, which was eleven years before, Robert each summer at Grand Isle had constituted himself the devoted attendant of some fair dame or damsel. Sometimes it was a young girl, again a widow; but as often as not it was some interesting married woman.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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#12

“We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: acid, love-gone-wrong, love-hurts, poison, reflection

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#13

“… It was an astonishing situation, a tragedy unique in history. What terror had driven these peace-loving people to seek refuge in such a wilderness? Even grass had become scarce along the track. Scanty patches of grass had been eaten clean and transport animals, already showing signs of exhaustion were far from their journey’s end. … the constant flicker of lightning and the distant growl of thunder wasominous. In the small hours the storm burst upon us. Hastily rolling up bedding we took refuge wherever we could, in or under the
lorries standing round. There together with many Indians we sat huddled and waited for the dawn. Dr Russell”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

tags: a-disintegrating-track, army, fly, government, navy, planes, soldiers, struggles, threatening-weather, wwii

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#14

“The estate was immaculate, but parts of it felt unused.
Not neglected, exactly—just sealed. Like they’d been
closed off intentionally.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: Secrets

tags: emotionally-charged, emotions, evocative, intrigue, redemptive, self-actualisation, struggles, tension, thrilling, unpredictable

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#15

“Still, in 1877, Engels wanted to protect us from false socialism. Still then, in Anti-Dühring, he wrote that not any nationalization is socialist, because in the contrary case both Bismarck and Napoleon would have to be arranged among the founders of socialism.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: east-europe, economic-theory, effective, equality, historical, private-property, scientific-socialism, speculation, totalitarian, unity

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#16

“Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.”
― Marcel Proust

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#17

“You’re the one who put me in distress!”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

tags: different, exciting, fantasy, original, science-fiction, thrilling, unique

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#18

“Slowly, as waves recede, my expanding spirit shrinks back into earthly dimensions -- not voluntarily, because I would prefer to lose myself, but I am pulled from below, back to myself, into myself, so that for just one moment I am on the couch again, fitting the fingers of my awareness into the glove of my flesh. And I know I can move this finger or wink that eye -- if I want to. But I don't want to move. I will not move!”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

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#19

“You see, if you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

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#20

“Every sin is the result of a colaboration”
― Stephen Crane, The Blue Hotel and Other Stories

tags: life, reality, true

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