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#1

“Death would have to wait a while longer for another soul to feed upon.”
― Eli Wilde, My Unbeating Heart

tags: 1800, captivating, conflict, drama, fiction-writing, human, journey, part-vampire, spine-chilling, vampires

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#2

“And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them.”
― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

tags: action-packed, adventure, bombs, exciting, fast-paced, gripping, military, navy, special-ops, thrilling

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#3

“These creatures are not humanoid. They call themselves, the Fury, and the name is well deserved; they are a violent race. .”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

tags: creatures, fiction, humanity, humanoid, missions, realities, sci-fi, space, time, time-travel

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#4

“Later, back in the Den of Thieves, Rafe explained it all to Raimund. The boy was partially mollified. Rafe did not know about Raimund’s dreams, and Raimund did not enlighten him, so Raimund puzzled by himself. What did it mean? How had Aleana come to be in the prison cell under the protection of the young man from his dreams – in the arms of the young man who was now the occupant of his family’s old cottage? How had the man ended up in prison, and what was his crime? Most importantly, what would happen to Aleana?”
― Robert Reid, The Thief

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#5

“y yo era uno de los mejores en el uso de esta herramienta demoníaca para traer el infierno a la tierra. Sent”
― John Ramirez, FUERA DEL CALDERO DEL DIABLO

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#6

“She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months. in that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretched in bad times but contracting eventually into happiness. That the world could come permanently unsprung had never occurred to him.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

tags: grief, happiness, recovery

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#7

“That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

tags: mask

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#8

“It's a disgrace to us all! he almost screamed. 'We're letting them take us to our death like sheep to the slaughter!.....at least we could break out of the ghetto, or at least die honourably, not as a stain on the face of history!”
― Władysław Szpilman

tags: holocaust, holocaust-survivor, poland, warsaw-ghetto

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#9

“You can’t be pretty forever, you know that? But you can always be beautiful.”
― Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

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#10

“Dedicated to all boys and girls who love horses but never have had one of their own”
― Walter Farley, The Island Stallion

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#11

“Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this, Squadron Leader. It was our war, our victory and now it is our Berlin. We tolerate your presence in this city… if that.”
― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

tags: army, battles, danger, destruction, life, secrets, spies, unrest, war

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#12

“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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#13

“Hugh le Despencer the Elder was speaking to his son, Hugh le Despencer the Younger. He said, “Son, given that you are effeminate and lack manly qualities, I think that the way for you for you to improve your lot in life is to become the King’s Chamberlain.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

tags: british-history, documentary, drama, historical, isabella, king-edward-ii, real-life, research, royalty, truth

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#14

“He grabbed her arm and karate-chopped her wrist to force the weapon out of her hand. She lost her balance and fell backward, but he kept a grip on her.”
― Karl Braungart, Triple Deception

tags: crime, dramatic, fiction-novel, gambling, gripping, murder, mystery, thrilling, violence

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#15

“فما أسعد الإنسان الذي يرى بعينيه عدوه يفارق الحياة، ويدفع ثمن ما اقترفت يداه من الشرور.”
― Euripides, Herakles

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#16

“There will always be men who are justified in this interest in themselves, this detailed observation of their own emotions; poets who can express with clarity and beauty their privileged inner life, and thereby enrich the emotional world of other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

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#17

“The road to wisdom is paved with excess.

The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: mistakes, overindulgence, wisdom, writing

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