Quotes - Van Petralba (Basking Ridge, NJ) Showing 1-10 of 10

#1

“Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, athens, democracy, educational, evolution, fiction, greece, love, love-story, novel

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#2

“Just now he was on a mind-blowing adventure and it was rapidly spiralling out of control, and this is what he needed to concentrate his mind on. How could he squeeze Daley to get the book back; that’s if Daley had it in his possession in the first place? The next few days were going to be crucial.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#3

“Yeah, nerdship could be inherited as surely as any knighthood”
― William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven

tags: action-packed, adventure, exciting, full-package, heroes, intrigue, mysterious, secrets, suspense, thrilling

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#4

“The horse’s ears twitched as she spoke.
“I hope you’ll forgive any of my rookie mistakes. You see, I’ve become both a novice rancher and a fake widow today.” She tilted her head, loosening the tense muscles in her neck. “How many people can say that, huh?”
― Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

tags: action, drama, excitement, gripping, literary-fiction, love, relationship, romance

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#5

“But what you're trying to do is much more difficult than climbing K2”
― Greg Mortenson

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#6

“What I forget not only ceases to exist, but never really existed in the first place.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

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#7

“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.”
― Frederick Douglass

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#8

“I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.”
― Nikolas Schreck

tags: 8-8-88-rally, charles-manson, interano, interview

75 likes

#9

“All scriptures contain contradictions and the Qur'an is no exception.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

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#10

“Às vezes a distância não conta, pensou, às vezes reduz-se ao silêncio breve que espaça as batidas de um coração.”
― Colleen McCullough, Tim

tags: distance

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