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    Gina Buonaguro
    “Knowing I should get into the habit of praying on my knees before bed, I shrugged and instead huddled under the bedcovers, the rose clasped in my hands close to my heart. The stem was very long, with all thorns removed, and an old Venetian saying came to mind: The longer the stem, the greater the love.”
    ― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice
    tags: convent, fiction, fiction-novel, historical, renaissance, researched, scandals, secrets, venice, women-s-saga
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    Tracy Chevalier
    “Our lives are becoming more convenient but less tangible, and bookshops are the victims of that choice.”
    ― Tracy Chevalier
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    tags: barcelona, european-novelists, literary-tradition, literature-in-translation
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    James Dashner
    “Being careful hasn’t gotten us squat.”
    ― James Dashner, The Maze Runner
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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: august, heat, weather
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    Forrest Carter
    “Gidişat böyle dedi. Yalnızca gereksinim duyduklarını al. Geyik alıyorsan, en iyisini alma. En küçük ve en yavaş olanını seç, o zaman geyik daha güçlü olur ve her zaman sana et verir. Pa-koh (panter) bunu biliyor. Sen de bilmelisin!”
    ― Forrest Carter
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    K. Ritz
    “If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery
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    John Rachel
    “You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.”
    ― John Rachel, Blinders Keepers
    tags: banana, calculus, chimpanzee, education, golden-rule, lyme-disease
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    Frank Lambert
    “The shaver was the size and shape of a brick and almost too hot to hold in his hand. It hissed like it was angry with Zam and its three rotating shaving heads, behind the flimsy looking protective screen, looked like they wanted to rip the skin from his face before chewing it up and spitting it back out with a triumphant sizzle.”
    ― Frank Lambert, Xyz
    tags: changelings, dead, death, discovery, fiction, ghost, human, journey, literature, spine-chilling
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  • #10
    “He will tell you what's wrong in your society, who's to blame, and make you afraid of it, but he won't tell you how to fix it.”
    ― March Lions, The Last Sunset
    tags: alien, alien-invasion-science-fiction, destruction, drama, earth, fast-paced, humans, irreversible-damage, planetary-destruction, war
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    Chad Boudreaux
    “As the taxi entered the intersection, the two drivers in the attorney general’s entourage slammed on the brakes. Both Suburbans fishtailed out of control. Ducking in the back seat, Blake could smell the burning rubber from tires skidding on the asphalt and hear the pedestrians screaming and car horns sounding off in rebuke.”
    ― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
    tags: clandestine, counterterrorism, drama, justice, legal, novel, plotting, suspense, target
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “Temples are for the gods,” Thucydides said. “No city has the hubris to put her own citizens on a temple.” Phidias promised, “The Athenians will look like gods.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: classical-struggles, family-life, hierarchy, historical, naval-battles, passion, political-intrigue, rebellion, romance
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    Willa Cather
    “what was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself,—life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?”
    ― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
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    “I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
    tags: humor
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    Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
    “As in the great ocean one piece of wood meets another, and parts from it again such is the meeting of creatures. Mahabharata”
    ― Vyasa, The Great Mahabharata
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    Stephen Crane
    “Two or three angels
    Came near to the earth.
    They saw a fat church.
    Little black streams of people
    Came and went in continually.
    And the angels were puzzled
    To know why the people went thus,
    And why they stayed so long within.”
    ― Stephen Crane, The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
    tags: angel, angels, catholicism, chapel, christianity, church, god, religion, sabbath, sunday
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    Nelson Mandela
    “When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    John Bunyan
    “For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.”
    ― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
    tags: evangelizing, jesus, scripture, truth
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