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#1

“It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Ito finally, who had been keeping very quiet up to this point. “Indeed. How much will it cost?” asked Brown “About twenty million Interplanetary Credits,” said Demba. “A modest investment for a man of your means.” “Indeed,” said Brown again. That was all the money he had, which started to strike him as strange, when his thoughts were interrupted. “We’ll arrange a visit to the mine,” said Ito. “Show you the place itself.” “Indeed,” said Brown. Or had he said that? The strange waking memory he had fallen into started to become repetitive. Reality started to flow back in. Diamonds, thought Brown. All those diamonds in that mine.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: drama, fast-paced, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, suspense-thriller, thriller-novels

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#2

“We’re so very sorry about this latest murder. Ignore Simon’s levity.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: climatic, drama, emotionally-charged, fiction, intrigue, mystery, tense, unpredictable

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#3

“Nothing great comes easy. Nothing amazing comes without hard work. And that is especially true with marriages.”
― Lucian Bane, Dom Academy: 1st Semester

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#4

“There was a song I heard when I was in Los Angeles by a local group. The song was called ‘Los Angeles’ and the words and images were so harsh and bitter that the song would reverberate in my mind for days. The images, I later found out, were personal and no one I knew shared them. The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children. Images of people, teenagers my own age, looking up from the asphalt and being blinded by the sun. These images stayed with me even after I left the city. Images so violent and malicious that they seemed to be my only point of reference for a long time afterwards. After I left.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

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#5

“She had always kept things to herself. That was one sure truth.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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#6

“When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.”
― Lawrence Hill

tags: understanding-others

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#7

“We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends--- those whom we obey, and those whom we love; but even they who have neither, the most free, lonely, irresponsible and bereft of ties, --- even those for whom home holds no dear face, no familiar voice, --- even they have to meet the spirit that dwells within the land, under its sky, in its air, in its valleys, and on its rises, in its fields, in its waters and its tress--- a mute friend, judge, and inspirer.
Say what you like, to get its joy, to breathe its peace, to face its truth, one must return with a clear conscience.
All this may seem to you sheer sentimentalism; and indeed very few of us have the will or capacity to look consciously under the surface of familiar emotions.
There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

tags: freedom, individuality

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#8

“And I realized that sure Indians were drunk and sad and displaced and crazy and mean but dang we knew how to laugh.

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said good-bye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them.

Each funeral was a funeral for all of us.

We lived and died together.

All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground.

And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt.

And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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#9

“Sillyhead, Sam said. Are you kidding! You’ve been raised by pirates. Remember!”
― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode

tags: adventure, book-quotes, fantasy, found-family, friendship, humor, middle-grade, pirates

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#10

“I was trying to be someone else.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: character-arc, dark-tone, fantasy, identity, introspection, reader-feels, reinvention, self-deception

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#11

“je m’ouvre no clock ticks true time there are no defects”
― John C. Waugh, busted haiku

tags: affirmation, gentle-wisdom, healing, inner-peace, mindfulness, minimalist, poetry, self-acceptance

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#12

“If there was a moment a person could choose to fall in love, that would have been mine.. with him.”
― J. Rose Black, The Real Ones

tags: book-quotes, emotional-romance, falling-in-love, heart-on-sleeve, love-story, romance-readers, romantic-tension, second-chance-romance, swoon-moment

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#13

“Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went down in here, he was going to need all of his wits to get out of it.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: comfortably-numb, drugs, impending-doom

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#14

“I’d consider it an act of mercy if you would eat at least one of those scones, Lindsey. Clearly, you don’t have my problem. You look even thinner than you did the last time we saw each other.”
― Lin Wilder, Plausible Liars: A Dr. Lindsey McCall Medical Mystery 5

tags: book-club-reads, comfort-food, faith-based-suspense, friendship, goodreads-quotes, medical-mystery, small-moments, warm-humor

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#15

“Knowledge Is Power and Power Is Dangerous”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: big-ideas, ethics, moral-choices, philosophical-fiction, power-and-responsibility, speculative-fiction, thought-provoking

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#16

“Human destiny is not controlled by humans alone anymore”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: book-quotes, fate-and-choice, future-society, human-nature, political-sci-fi, sci-fi, tech-ethics, thought-provoking

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#17

“Many professionals on LinkedIn are experts who are always willing to help students; they like young ambition, and they would like to pass their expertise on to others!”
― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University

tags: ambition, career-advice, linked-in, mentorship, nonfiction, professional-learning, student-networking

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#18

“Von Trotha said, “The Wahehe are a tribe of about one quarter of a million people! On the 17th of August 1891, they defeated the German expedition against them which was led by Zeleski.”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: battles, classical-struggles, drama, family-life, hierarchy, history, literature, military-campaigns, passion

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#19

“Even though it's only a minority of men who are violent or predatory, I don't know if men realise that girls are trained our entire lives to minimise the danger from you - and blamed if we don't.”
― Sara Pascoe

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#20

“Berliners wear black" is the conventional wisdom. However, arriving in the city, you will find this is hardly true.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: berlin, female-travelers, style, travel-writing

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#21

“Even speech bubbles are too long.”
― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words

tags: comic-mood, funny-kids-books, kids-lit, picture-book, read-aloud, reluctant-reader, storytime

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#22

“Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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#23

“– Ну что тебе не все равно? Что тебе нравится?
– Ничего. Мне ничего не нравится, – говорю я.
– Я когда-нибудь что нибудь для тебя значила, Клей?
Я молчу, опять смотрю на меню.
– Я когда нибудь что нибудь для тебя значила? – снова спрашивает она.
– Я не хочу, чтобы кто-то для меня что-то значил. Так только хуже, одно лишнее беспокойство. Когда ничего не волнует, не так больно.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

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#24

“Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl?
The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.”
― Dicamillo, Kate

tags: despereaux, want

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#25

“وإذا استطاع المرء أن يشعر بأن بقاءه إنسانا هو أمر يستحق التضحية من أجله، حتى لو لم يُؤد ذلك إلى نتيجة، فإنه يكون قد ألحق بهم الهزيمة.”
― جورج أورويل, 1984

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#26

“Peace filled the world—until some futile brain Envied the lions’ diet and gulped down A feast of flesh to fill his greedy guts.”
― Ovid

tags: vegan, vegetarianism

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#27

“Rain darkened with the approaching night, while the wind howled as if it was in pain. ”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: dark-atmosphere, gothic-tone, moody-mystery, page-turner-energy, storm-chasers, urban-fantasy, weather-as-character

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#28

“What we know in our hearts trumps all else.”
― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries

tags: book-quotes, emotional-truth, heart-over-logic, love-and-choice, reader-favorites, romantic-vibes, save-and-share, uplifting-line

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#29

“Remember to be careful, she told them, and don’t worry about me. No matter what happens, I’ll be back.”
― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode

tags: book-quotes, bravery, fantasy, friendship, hope, middle-grade, page-turner, promise, survival

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#30

“Dear Lord! I can’t wait to tell Mom and Cho I brought my lunch in a saddlebag and shared my sandwich and cookies with a den of rattlesnakes!”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: adventure-vibes, best-friend-energy, coming-of-age, fish-out-of-water, humor, memoir-feel-fiction, rural-life, share-worthy

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