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#1

“Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman’s silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: fiction-novel, murder, past-experiences, personal-relationships, power, psychological, tense, thriller

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#2

“The fuck is this shit?" it says. "Can you bloody believe this shit?" "No, honey," I say. "This is absolutely ridiculous." "Aren't you pissed the fuck off?" "Someone really should do something about this." "Why don't we bloody do something about it?" "Yeah, why don't we?" I say. "But how." "Well, we find whatever prick is in charge and give the fucker a piece of our minds, of course." ”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

tags: artificial-intelligence, conspiracy, dystopian-fiction, free-will, post-modern, reality, sex, truth, unease, violence

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#3

“Something must have gone awry with the programming. I have no idea where or when we are.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

tags: action, adventure, drama, fiction, future, literary-fiction, metaphysical, past, sci-fi, science

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#4

“To whomever swapped my tattoo cream for toothpaste........ well played.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: humour, humourous-situations, tattoo, tattoos

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#5

“Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle has been ordered to wipe the Swakop River Radio station off the map!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: drama, exciting, family, fiction, finding-happinesss, honour, living, military, philosophy, soul-searching

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#6

“Long walks around Seoul while feeling the divine love for Her settled me in meditation for hours.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: divinemeditation, seoullove, walkingmeditation

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#7

“It started to feel like this thing happening to me was an invisible wall between us, a barrier none of us wanted to acknowledge but that was continuously pushing us apart. I started to feel like an outsider even among my closest friends.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

tags: dark-side, facade, haunted, hidden, hidden-world, impossible, occult, occult-power, secret-world, secrets

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#8

“All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.”
― Katherine Paterson

tags: books, censorship, reading

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#9

“Peace in every home, every street, every village, every country- this is my dream. Education for every boy and every girl in the world. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish. I am Malala. My world has changed but I have not.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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#10

“Do you love him?”
Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. “He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”
“Then, you have to tell him.”
“I told you, I kissed him!”
“It’s hardly the same. I kissed you, after all. That wasn’t love, Mr. Sharp.”
“Aye, and what exactly was it?”
“Curiosity.” Lilit smiled. “And as I said, you’re quite a dashing boy.”
“But I’m pretty sure Alek doesn’t want a dashing boy!”
“You can’t be sure until you ask.”
Deryn shook her head. “You were raised to throw bombs. I wasn’t.”
“Were you raised to wear trousers and be a soldier?”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

tags: feminism, gender-stereotypes

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#11

“lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvellous Medicine

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#12

“The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.”
― Euripides

tags: happiness

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#13

“He dropped the phone back onto its cradle, began to turn around and felt a sudden ice-cold furrow open up in his side. Strength drained from his legs, and a moment later he sank to his knees. There was warmth now that ran over the initial and persistent cold.

Mohammed was confused, and barely noticed the briefcase being removed from his grip. He heard the click of a cell phone opening, and a soft beeping as a number was dialed.

'The package is in my possession,' a female voice said, and the phone clicked shut.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: assassin, death-and-dying, descriptive-prose

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#14

“The computer began to titter. ‘Well it’s a long story honey, but the concise version is this. Talalia has been a bad girl. She was grounded for six months after her last trip.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Inara

tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, compelling, deep, future, humanity, sci-fi, science-fiction, suspense, thriller

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#15

“he couldn't entice me with his pills, hookers, guns or war mission”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

tags: australia, drugging, gaslighting, hitmen, insight, memoirs, murder, occult-organisations, perils, trauma

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#16

“You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,” shrieked his hellish voice. Whether the beast was a man in a mask or a demon of his imagination, made little difference to Adam, He was petrified.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: action, danger, fear, fiction, fiction-novel, insight, thriller, trauma, unpredictable

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#17

“I refuse putting from me the best that I am.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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#18

“And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains”
― Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

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#19

“In books there were people who were always agreeable or tender, and delighted to do things that made one happy, and who did not show their kindness by finding fault. The world outside the books was not a happy one, Maggie felt: it seemed to be a world where people behaved the best to those they did not pretend to love and that did not belong to them. And if life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie? Nothing but poverty and the companionship of her mother’s narrow griefs—perhaps of her father’s heart-cutting childish dependence. There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no long memories, no super-added life in the life of others; though we who look on think lightly of such premature despair, as if our vision of the future lightened the blind sufferer’s present.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

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#20

“Every angel is terrifying.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

tags: angels, elegy, poetry

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#21

“Yet on the dusky veranda she had seemed like a force of nature that had somehow sought out the landscape of his longing and moulded itself to each contour.”
― Sebastian Faulks, On Green Dolphin Street

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#22

“valley”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

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#23

“Good soil is structure, carbon, air, moisture, and life held together.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

tags: compost, garden-fundamentals, grow-better, no-dig, organic-gardening, soil-health, vegetable-garden

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#24

“Excuse me, Madame, but the president runs the country, not a factory. Your time is up! So please move along so that others may greet the president.”
― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age

tags: american-presidents, gilded-age, historical-fiction, historical-moments, political-fiction, power-and-privilege, quote-of-theday, social-satire

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#25

“Helen slowly became aware of an unnerving red light. She lifted her head and looked around. The glow bounced off the cold stone walls and intensified quickly. It filled her with thoughts of despair and hopelessness. She tried to shake them off.
You have what’s mine! Where is it? I want it!
Helen shuddered violently. She recalled the inner voice that urged
her to use the stone to keep Prince Harnak from dying. That voice was
comforting and encouraging. This voice was oppressive and angry and
beat on her relentlessly.
“No!” she muttered. “Go away. I have nothing for you or anyone
else, not even me.”
The red light flickered out. Only the numbing cold and her utter
isolation, cheerless companions, remained.”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

tags: adventure-fiction, curses, demonic-foe, destiny-and-choice, fate-vs-free-will, father-daughter-relationship, hidden-threats, hope, religious-power, spiritual-warfare

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#26

“Home was the one place he wanted to forget, the place from which he’d run away but never could escape. And, yes, home was the place he’d been instructed to leave—the place where the trouble began and the trouble would end.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: drama, fiction, investigate, mystery, page-turner, plot-driven, puppeteering, survival, thriller, treachery

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#27

“Anywhere I go, I figure I belong.”
― Chitra Nawbatt, The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success

tags: belonging, confidence, courage, empowerment, mindset, personal-growth, self-belief

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#28

“For once he looked at her as if he saw her – an older woman unafraid of blustering men, too assured to play at looking younger. ”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: character-insight, feminist-fiction, midlife-heroine, own-your-power, strong-women, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery

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#29

“He came back to the car, long legs lifting high in the snow, and there was snow in his hair and on his eyelashes and I remembered that I love him. It felt like something breaking with a little pain and spilling warm.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

tags: love, winter

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#30

“He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.”
― Voltaire, Candide

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