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#1

“Mead.
O sweet elixir,
Ye bless the lips and steal the wits.
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― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, engaging, exciting, fantasy, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit

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#2

“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
― Sara Pascoe

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#3

“Aurelia, not all those women are uppity aristocratic bitches. Most of them are normal nice girls trying to survive in shark-infested waters, so if you want to make a difference, why not go in there and change the way things work?" "How?" Marcus smiled deviously. "By unseating the queen bee and changing the rules." "That sounds like a great idea, Colonel. Lead me to the beehive.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: adventure, dramatic, dystopian, fantasy, fiction-action, good-v-s-evil, mystery, science-fiction

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#4

“On n'abdique pas l'honneur d'être une cible.”
― Edmond Rostand 1868-1918, Cyrano De Bergerac

tags: bravery, daring, free-will, honor, perseverance, standing-up, target

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#5

“Mavis' bear sailed through the air in Cassie's room, falling onto the bed. 'What's he in aid of?' 'He's reconnaissance expert. He wouldn't hear of me enterin' potential hostile ground without testin' for fire. Has his sacrifice been in vain?”
― Christine M. Knight

tags: humour

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#6

“They were so focused on the mechanics and the process that they never looked at the problem holistically. In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

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#7

“You’re supposed to, I think. Just like you were supposed to come to Cairnholm.” “I don’t believe in stuff like that. Fate. The stars. Destiny.” “I didn’t say destiny.” “Supposed to is the same thing,” I said. “Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It’s a lot of crap.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

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#8

“Better, though difficult, the right way to go.
Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

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#9

“There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.”
― Aldous Huxley

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#10

“Yet, all armor—from a lobster’s shell to a Navy SEAL’s
flak jacket—ultimately reveals the same truth. All armor highlights
vulnerability. It trumpets the fact that below that hard exterior lies
an interior that is soft, fragile, and in need of protection.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

tags: crime-thriller, murder-plot, revenge, thrillers

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#11

“Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: christmas, life, musings, poisoned

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#12

“The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#13

“He turned to look at her and spoke in a low voice. ‘So many questions Anthea. Perhaps it’s time I asked you a few questions.’ ‘What do you mean.’ ‘Who were you thinking about? This morning?’ ‘What? You mean when we …’ ‘You know what I mean. Who was in your mind?’ ‘I don’t really think while, you know … ‘ ‘I don’t believe you.”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

tags: betrayal, climactic, demon, jealous, lonely, manor-house, mystery, odd, psychic, unusual

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#14

“Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

tags: inspirational

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#15

“The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: man, test

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#16

“We are as different from one another on the inside of our heads as we appear to be different from one another on the outside of our heads.”
― Robert Fulghum, It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

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#17

“thinking: I don’t want my little girl to come out blind or gouged up. I’m not cheap, I’m scared. It’s the story of my life: not stingy, just a goddamn coward.”
― Rebecca Wells, Little Altars Everywhere

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#18

“Don't work for the money let the money work for you.”
― Robert Kiyosaki

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