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“The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: battles, death, determination, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, grit, inspiring, veterans

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#2

“Bodies’, she said. ‘Lots of them’. She glanced over her shoulder to where Sally was hidden, then back to Nathan, and whispered. ‘Small ones’.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

tags: fighting, scared, suspense, thriller

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#3

“Too pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one moment!" Piercing him with her best scary stare, she said, "It surprises me that no one has pointed out your glaringly obvious agenda, so let me be the first.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: adventure, cult, death, drama, dystopian, fiction, future, romance, sci-fi

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#4

“They were holding their weapons but could not risk opening a window or exiting the vehicle to return fire. Then they saw one of their attackers pull out a grenade.”
― Jeffrey S. Stephens, Enemies Among Us

tags: action, drama, edgy, fictional, lies, page-turner, secrets, terrorism, terrorist, tragedy

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#5

“Never Give Up!”
― Michael Parker

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#6

“Hestia sighed. ‘Stepping inside a mirror is like stepping into Pandora’s Box. It is a world of illusion and fragility. If the mirror is broken then so, too, will be whoever is inside the mirror at the time it is broken.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

tags: changeling, disabled-hero, fantasy-young-adult, mirror, ya-horror

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#7

“But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,” but anyone could see it looked like her.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, evolution, fiction, golden-age, history, immersive, love, love-story, treacherous

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#8

“I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
― Robyn Arianrhod, Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²

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#9

“The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

tags: freedom, totalitarianism, women-writers

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#10

“Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past his own crowding problems, and guess what it might men to me, to walk in dead air where once the world had been a god-filled garden.”
― Mary Stewart

tags: arthurian, compassion, merlin

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#11

“Your mom doesn't know about the movie, does she?"
"My mom doesn't know about the book," he said, "It turns out a novel isn't the worst place to hide things.”
― Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

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#12

“But if you flip this around, the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.
Hold my bag while I victory-lap.”
― Sara Pascoe

tags: gender, humour

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#13

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: imagination

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#14

“You are the only beautiful thing that has ever come close to me. You came line an angel out of the sky. You are like the music you sing, you are like the stars and the snow on the mountains where I played when I was a little boy. You are like all tha they have killed in me. I die for you tonight, tomorrrow, for all eternity. I am not a cowaqrd; I was afraid cause I lovey ou more than Christ who died for me, more than I am afraid of hell, or hope for heaven. I was never afraid before.”
― Willa Cather

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#15

“I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-"
"He'd burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know," Alec said.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

tags: alec-lightwood, chapter-one, city-of-lost-souls, clary-fray, jace, mortal-instruments

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#16

“The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: war

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#17

“As is so well known, Trump publicly said the press was the enemy and enemy of the state. He even once told Woodward during an interview, “In my opinion you’re the enemy of the people.”
― Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men

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#18

“From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in.”
― Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat

tags: humor

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