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#1

“I want to propose a toast!" Taking a spoon he noisily tapped it against the crystal glass. "Everyone!" He thundered, the large amount of whiskey he had consumed making him reckless. "To Victor, Ste. Genevieve's own inventor and my best friend, all the happiness in the world!" The happy crowd shouted their approval. "And to the ever, ever fair beauty Celena..." His voice cracking under the strain, and he wondered if he should stop now, before he embarrassed himself, before he made some horrible declaration.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: drama, fiction, historical-victorian-romance, history, intrigue, literary-romance, love, romance

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#2

“He was her fire, had always been from the start, his burning, radiant spirit, a beacon worthy of following.”
― Leslie K. Simmons, Red Clay, Running Waters

tags: america, american-history, culture, discovery, drama, educational, fiction, historical-fiction, history, history-novel

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#3

“Love is described like GOD.”
― Sara Pascoe

tags: aniaml, female-body, feminism, love

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#4

“Callan stared at the door. Raw and razed and present. A crucial moment—when he wasn’t the one with his finger on the trigger.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

tags: adult-romance, drama, fun, laugh-out-loud, literary-fiction, love, ptsd, romance, satire, steamy

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#5

“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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#6

“She’s a cop’s wife. She understands what her husband does for a living,” the priest said.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: detective, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, mystery, noir, noir-mystery, pi, private-investigation

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#7

“We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generations.”
― John Rachel, A Long Night's Journey Into Daylight

tags: dreams, future-generations, hope, ideals

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#8

“La lumiere au bout du tunnel”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

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#9

“That’s it. Let’s go.”
“Yep,” whispered Suley. He turned to leave. “This is crazy.” He had his phone in his hand. “Look, we’re still in Rowland Forest. What’s this fence doing here? How come it’s not marked?”
“We’ll tell your father about it.” Saskia pulled at his arm, looking anxiously around and up. To her horror, she saw a surveillance camera mounted on an overhead tree branch. It pointed straight at them. “Merde! Suley, we’ve got to go!” she hissed, pointing to the camera.
His eyes widened.
Distant shouts and an engine roaring to life exploded the forest calm.
Suley and Saskia bolted back the way they’d come.”
― Miriam Verbeek, The Forest: A thrilling international crime novel

tags: action, adventure, crime, crime-novel, fiction, intrigue, organised-crime, sleuth, women-s-adventure

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#10

“Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it in riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

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#11

“Hay un jardin en el cielo, que esta esperando. Es un jardin que Chris y yo imaginamos hace muchos años, mientras yaciamos en una losa dura y negra del tejado y contemplabamos el Sol y las estrellas”
― V.C. Andrews, Seeds of Yesterday

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#12

“You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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#13

“body”
― Jean M. Auel, The Shelters of Stone

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#14

“When I look at people talking about intersectionality, what I see is the human being magnifying a biological attribute, and then putting them aside, putting them in a corner as victims of oppression....I most certainly don't see myself as a victim.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali

tags: identitypolitics, intersectional, intersectionality, liberalism, oppression, victimattitude, victimmentality

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#15

“Chase stared into the fire. That look, those eyes would haunt the mercenary for a while…occasionally, now and then, there was a kill that stayed with the mercenary, and he had just experienced another one of those.”
― Cade Mengler, The Companions

tags: difficult, fantasy-horror, fate, fight, forces-of-evil, horror, knowledge, magical-knowledge, memories, sword

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#16

“Ferret took out a folded scrap of paper and passed it to him.
'My guy Ben doesn't know where the other club is, but the girls are being shipped in from here, a rehab centre in Newtonville.'
'What's this other place called?' Tazeem asked as he slipped the scrap of paper into his pocket.
'The place is just known as The Club. But the behind-the-scenes bit that only the real big spenders get to see, there's no official name, 'cause officially it doesn't exist, that's know as The Zombie Room.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: dangerous-liaisons, impending-doom

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#17

“As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph into Uncle Sid’s as he urged me to give his love to Rose Marie and the Mounties.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: childhood-memories, fiction, happiness, hardship, home, life, loss, memories, pain, sadness

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#18

“I need a minute.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

tags: bloodshed, child, compelling, destruction, fiction, genetics, mothers-love, planetary-destruction, senses, struggles

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#19

“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
― Sara Pascoe

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#20

“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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#21

“And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept. ”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy (Palabra en el tiempo / Word in the Time)

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#22

“This particular argument was pleasanter than most, because the person setting me straight was a pretty seventeen-year-old girl, a college sophomore, and it was no strain to smile at her with good humor as she went about her work.”
― Herman Wouk, This is My God: A Guidebook to Judaism

tags: humor, pretty-girl

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#23

“And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

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#24

“Individuals start to see themselves reflected in their work and to understand their full status as human beings through the object created, through the work accomplished. Work no longer entails surrendering a part of one's being in the form of labor power sold, which no longer belongs to the individual, but becomes an expression of oneself, a contribution to the common life in which one is reflected, the fulfillment of one's social duty.”
― Ernesto Guevara, Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution

tags: politics, revolution, socialism

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#25

“You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.”
― Sophocles

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#26

“You look so blindingly cute right now, I feel like I need to make a pinhole in a piece of paper just to look at you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

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