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    Frank Lambert
    “Bonnyman quickly walked over to the head and picked it up by the hair. He held it in front of his face. ‘Tell me whose orders you follow,’ he said in a gentle voice that Zam didn’t think he possessed.
    The wraith looked past Bonnyman, staring at its body twitching on the floor. ‘Never your orders,’ it gasped, before closing its eyes forever.”
    ― Frank Lambert, Xyz
    tags: captivating, death, drama, fiction, fiction-writing, horror, mystery, supernatural, thriller
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    Barbara Sontheimer
    “I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace.
    But this time, he refused to let her go.  "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me!  What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you by 130 pounds, how could you possibly be afraid of me!" He laughed.”
    ― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
    tags: american-historical-romance, drama, historical-romance, passion, passionate, romance, tense, torment, victorian-romance
    200 likes

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    “Maeve O’Shaughnessy was one of those Americans, influenced by national hero and Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh, who had been against becoming involved in the war.”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: culture, drama, fiction, fictional-drama, fictional-narratives, historical-fiction, history, mystery
    138 likes

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    Yvonne Korshak
    “Temples are for the gods,” Thucydides said. “No city has the hubris to put her own citizens on a temple.” Phidias promised, “The Athenians will look like gods.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: classical-struggles, family-life, hierarchy, historical, naval-battles, passion, political-intrigue, rebellion, romance
    334 likes

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    Sara Pascoe
    “Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: children-s, fantasy, occult, paranormal, supernatural, teenagers, urban, ya-paranormal, young-adult
    417 likes

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    Molly Arbuthnott
    “But, he duly ate the peanut and whoosh!”
    ― Molly Arbuthnott, Peanut the Hamster
    tags: animals, children-books, children-s-learning, faith, fiction, fiction-books, friendship, hope, love, pets
    40 likes

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    J.B. Lion
    “I would have hoped you would have learned by now. No matter, a man who refuses to face his destiny offers himself to the GOD of chance—and chance is a wayward bitch.”
    ― J.B. Lion, The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity
    tags: action, fantasy, graphic-novel, illustrated-books, inequality, lifting-the-veil, mental-construct, sci-fi, social-structures, socioeconomics
    50 likes

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    Nancy Omeara
    “Being the World’s Most Powerful Leader is Easier Than You Think
    One of my first executive orders was to impose a moratorium on any new federal government hiring. That got the “Incredible Shrinking Government” meal simmering. Veto stamps branded into any Congressional salary increase proposal added a certain singed aroma.”
    ― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
    tags: female-presidents, governed, government, imaginative, leadership, politicians, practical, succinct, unique
    77 likes

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    Andri E. Elia
    “We Yandar are winged. We don’t succumb to adversity; we fly with it.”
    ― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
    tags: action-and-adventure, adventure-fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fiction-writing, love, magical, mystery, sci-fi, universe
    120 likes

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    Jonathan Swift
    “No digo esto con la más pequeña intención de disminuir las muchas virtudes de aquel excelente rey, cuyos méritos, sin embargo, temo que habrán de quedar muy mermados a los ojos del lector inglés con este motivo; pero juzgo que este defecto tiene por origen la ignorancia de aquel pueblo, que todavía no ha reducido la política a una ciencia,”
    ― Jonathan Swift, Los viajes de Gulliver
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    Malorie Blackman
    “Feel free to bugger off and die at any time.’ Dan scowled.”
    ― Malorie Blackman, Double Cross
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    Emily Dickinson
    “I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—
    As if my Brain had split—
    I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—
    But could not make it fit.

    The thought behind, I strove to join
    Unto the thought before—
    But Sequence ravelled out of Sound
    Like Balls—upon a Floor.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: mind, poetry
    48 likes

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    Rebecca Wells
    “Smoke, drink and never think.”
    ― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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    Dalton Trumbo
    “That stood to reason. Life is awfully important so if you’ve given it away you’d ought to think with all your mind in the last moments of your life about the thing you traded it for. So did all those kids die thinking of democracy and freedom and liberty and honor and the safety of the home and the stars and stripes forever? You’re goddam right they didn’t.”
    ― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
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