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    K. Ritz
    “This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, antasy, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery
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    Max Nowaz
    “If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
    tags: androids, artificial-humans, dystopian, exciting, intrigue, invasion, mission, planets, revolution, secrets
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    Forrest Carter
    “They now have sensed him coming The forest and the wood-wind Father mountain makes him welcome with his song. They have no fear of Little Tree They know his heart is kindness And they sing, ‘Little tree is not alone.’ Even”
    ― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree
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    Azar Nafisi
    “I went on and on, and as I continued, I became more righteous in my indignation. It was the sort of anger one gets high on, the kind one takes home to show off to family and friends.”
    ― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    tags: anger, indignation
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
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    Émile Zola
    “Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?”
    ― Émile Zola, The Joy of Life
    tags: life, pessimism, regrets, zola
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    Leon Uris
    “So before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world. And all of us against the infidel.”
    ― Leon Uris, The Haj
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    John Patrick Kennedy
    “She shivered, then shook her head and closed her eyes. She had to pray before bed. It was her duty to pray. Only, after tomorrow, it wouldn’t be her duty anymore. Her father, Lord Vlad Dracula, the prince—or voivode—of Wallachia was coming for her on her eighteenth birthday. He had sent word two months before. Assuming he still lives.”
    ― John Patrick Kennedy, Princess Dracula
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  • #9
    “The people of Light are always stronger than the people of Evil, for they have already conquered it in themselves. They have conquered the weaknesses that still entrap others.”
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    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: innerwork, inspirationalreads, peopleoflight, philosophicalfiction, selfmastery, shadowwork, spiritualgrowth
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    K. Ritz
    “This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, engaging, exciting, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery
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  • #11
    “Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: descriptive-prose, lust, strippers
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  • #12
    Ashby Jones
    “In this town very little's changed and I'm afraid it never will.”
    ― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird
    tags: bookclubreads, civilrightsera, historicalfiction, justiceandmercy, smalltownsecrets, southernfiction
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    Max Nowaz
    “He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller
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    Gary Clemenceau
    “Yes, there was a great power and satisfaction in giving up all hope.”
    ― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity
    tags: darktone, existential, literaryfiction, readersquote, starkline, underlined
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  • #15
    “...the cruelest thing you ever said to me was that you would always love me.”
    ― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss
    tags: black-market, brooklyn, gangster, guardian, high-school, junior, patriotic, sexism, survival, wwii
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    Nick Hornby
    “People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
    ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
    tags: music, sad
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    Joseph Heller
    “He could not make them shut-up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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    Neal Stephenson
    “And Türing answered another,” Rudy said.
    “Who’s that?”
    “It’s me,” Alan said. “But Rudy’s joking. ‘Turing’ doesn’t really have an umlaut in it.”
    “He’s going to have an umlaut in him later tonight,” Rudy said, looking at Alan in a way that, in retrospect, years later, Lawrence would understand to have been smoldering.”
    ― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
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    V (formerly Eve Ensler)
    “Slowly, it dawned on me that nothing was more important than stopping violence toward women—that the desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life”
    ― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues
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  • #20
    “Nobody's talking to me, but nobody's hassling me either. I guess you can't have everything.”
    ― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice
    tags: rejection
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: concieted-men, praise
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