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#1

“¡Don’t tell me what to think, niña malcriada! And, you—” Don Gabriel pointed at Marco, “Stop filling my daughter’s head with nonsense.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: alienation, ambition, anti-imperialism, elite-society, freedom, historical-drama, identity-crisis, revolution, richly-detailed, tropical-settings

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#2

“A ray of sunlight poked through the mass of angry clouds.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: action-packed, bloodshed, drama, fight, genetics, love, lovers, sci-fi, thrilling, war

179 likes

#3

“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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#4

“The American generals could only think in terms of large armies and huge battles. They believed or hoped that an enemy who chose to hide in jungles and tunnels would quickly be flushed out by American fire-power and then die in open battle.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, war, war-recount

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#5

“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: dreams

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#6

“And many of the townsfolk of Boston seem more concerned with the profit of their business than the great cause that is swirling around them.”
― Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain

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#7

“If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him.”
― Wilson Rawls

tags: funny-but-true, sad-but-true

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#8

“The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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#9

“SILENCE you miserable cretins!”
― Nikolas Schreck

tags: miserable-cretins

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#10

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”
― Mark Twain

tags: paradox

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