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#1

“Next morning, we drank endless cups of coffee in the airport restaurant…Suddenly wide-eyed, she stared past me: “Good grief, some of the people they let in here.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: beautiful, dark, family-life, fiction, friendship, loneliness, memories, reality, sadness, secrets

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#2

“Next morning, while her children were still asleep in their tent, Evie got up early. The acorn she had planted the day before had sprung to life and was nearly ten feet high. Sitting on the fallen log where the forest boy had sat thirty years earlier, she listened. There was no dancing partner. Maybe she was now too old, but the oak trees did sing for her.”
― Robert Reid, The Empress:

tags: adventure-fiction, discovery, fighting, grit, heroes, suspense, throne, unpredictable, unrest, weapons

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#3

“Bend with me.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

tags: action-and-adventure, action-fantasy, action-packed, adventure-fantasy, conspire, life-and-death, plots, politics, secrets, twists

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#4

“The bar staff and croupiers all wore black with the same green triangle logo emblazoned on their shirts, and contact lenses which made their eyes shine an eerie, vibrant green. The bar optics glowed with the same green light, the intensity of which was linked to the music. As the bartender walked away to fetch the drinks, a breakdown in the techno track commenced and the bottles began to palpitate. The bartender's eyes glowed with a hallucinatory felinity that made Mangle feel nervous.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: descriptive-prose, eerie-attraction, hallucinatory

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#5

“Gentlemen,” he said. “I give you The Eagle’s Covenant.”
― Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

tags: bloodshed, deception, fear, sas, shooting, special-ops, struggles, survival, tactics, terrorist

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#6

“At this point, it’s as though a demon is haunting me. It’s as though every time I find myself in a difficult situation; it compels me to take the coward’s way out. And I’m fully aware it’s the coward’s way out, yet I cannot help myself”
― Cade Mengler, The Companions

tags: action-and-adventure-fantasy, amulet, ancient-prophecy, forces-of-good, magic, perilous-journey, prophecy, quest, sword-and-sorcery, warrior

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#7

“I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? he was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings.”
― Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

tags: american-history, chattel-property, slavery

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#8

“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: death, notoriety

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#9

“I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.'

The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

tags: daniel-burnham, erik-larson, the-devil-in-the-white-city

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#10

“That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: l-m-montgomery

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#11

“Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

tags: adventure, funny

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#12

“where there's a Clark, there's a Lewis”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

tags: fiction

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