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#1

“Why did one have to put up a hue and cry about anything so trifling as the skin on one’s face, which, after all, was only a small part of the human capsule?
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While such a situation would be understandable in a pimply adolescent who lives in visions, it was ridiculous for me, the section head of a respectable laboratory, moored securely to this world by an anchor-like weight, to be afflicted by psychological hives.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Face of Another

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#2

“She has a target on her back because of what you and I have put into place, but you’d better fucking believe I’m not going to let anything else happen to her or my cousin, the rest of my family or my men. If anything happens to anyone I care about… Those motherfuckers were after my attention, and they’ve got it. Just make sure they don’t hurt anyone else.”
― Becky Wilde, Bratva Connection: Maxim

tags: action, adventure, drama, excitement, fast-paced, full-package, lies, passionate, secrets, thrilling

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#3

“They stood in the pool of lantern light, the house still around them. She placed a hand to calm his still heaving chest, the heat of his body fresh from travel. The coolness of her hand made him start, then he pulled her close. It was more than her body he needed.”
― Leslie K. Simmons, Red Clay, Running Waters

tags: 19th-century-classic, cherokee, culture, drama, enlightening, exploration, fiction-writing, historical-novel, novel, powerful

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#4

“I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, noir-mystery, nvestigation, thriller

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#5

“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

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#6

“The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty, and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to make up its mind.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, historical-fantasy, magic, occult, supernatural, teenagers, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal, young-adult

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#7

“She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: betrayal, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, realistic, suspense, thriller

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#8

“Satisfied, Sundae trotted to a bush near the lake, dug vigorously for some seconds and pulled out a bone deliciously covered in mud and bits of vegetation. She took her prize to a still-sunny patch of grass and began to gnaw at it. Two magpies, their greyish necks identifying them as juveniles, landed on a nearby branch. Sundae paused, eyes flicking up to stare at the birds, then returned to attend to the bone. One of the magpies swooped down and landed on the lawn a couple of metres away from the dog. Sunny’s top lip trembled up in the prelude of a snarl. The magpie approached the dog. Sundae’s body tensed, lip furling up further, eyes focused on the agitator. The magpie inched closer. When it was half a metre away, Sundae launched. The bird flew back to the branch next to its companion. Then both birds threw their heads back and let out a rollicking call; it sounded like laughter. Rumbling a growl, Sundae returned to her bone, casting baleful glares at the birds as she gnawed.
Saskia and Tania chuckled.
“For all of my life, I have watched the magpies and dogs of Woodgrove play this game,” Tania said. “And every time I see it, I have to laugh.”
― Miriam Verbeek, The Forest: A thrilling international crime novel

tags: action, curiosity, drama, exhilarating, fiction, fiction-novel, investigator, mystery, sleuth

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#9

“Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: adventure, cult, death, drama, dystopian, fiction, future, mystery, sci-fi

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#10

“Things could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors. And grandparents," he added, staring through the dimness toward the ceiling of his sleepingroom. "And everybody would have the memories."

"You know the memories," he whispered, turning toward the crib.

Garbriel's breathing was even and deep. Jonas liked having him there, though he felt guilty about the secret. Each night he gave memories to Gabriel: memories of boat rides and picnics in the sun; memories of soft rainfall against windowpanes; memories of dancing barefoot on a damp lawn.

"Gabe?"

The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.

"There could be love," Jonas whispered.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

tags: colors, gabriel, love

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#11

“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: deception, naive, romance, world

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#12

“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered forms, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away; all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life and his relations with his kind.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

tags: bourgeois, bourgeoisie, capitalism, epoch, production

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#13

“As he looked at me, he seemed to send a message of his own: that he would still fight for me, that he would fight until he collapsed to keep them from taking me.”
― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound

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#14

“I don't believe in coincidences."
"Neither do I. That's a coincidence, isn't it?”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

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#15

“Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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#16

“We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generations.”
― John Rachel, A Long Night's Journey Into Daylight

tags: dreams, future-generations, hope, ideals

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#17

“Fear, your fear takes hold of you…I can smell it. You are in my world now, and in my world, darkness is light.”
― 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

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#18

“Paul’s last grain of hope falling to the ground below him.”
― Molly Arbuthnott, Peanut the Hamster

tags: children-s-learning, discovery, fun, happiness, imagination, literature, love, mystery, warm

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#19

“Only someone watching him closely like Celena would have noticed his intense preoccupation, and that something in a split second had happened to him. She wondered where he had gone when he should have been listening to the sermon, where his soul had gone went it had left his body.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: drama, fiction, historical-victorian-romance, history, intrigue, literary-romance, love, romance

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#20

“Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
            Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit

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#21

“bantams with big puffy chests and exotic head-dresses, bright orange coats with black tails. A couple of roosters sport bright red combs and wattles.”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot

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#22

“Hestia sighed. ‘Stepping inside a mirror is like stepping into Pandora’s Box. It is a world of illusion and fragility. If the mirror is broken then so, too, will be whoever is inside the mirror at the time it is broken.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

tags: changeling, disabled-hero, fantasy-young-adult, mirror, ya-horror

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#23

“You can use all the hundred dollar words you want,” said Vic, “women like that are like TNT. You go after their man, they’d sooner kill you than look at you.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, adventure, danger, fiction, fiction-novel, fictional, insight, mystery, noir-mystery, unpredictable

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#24

“Jack Ryan said, “Benjamin Franklin put it like this: ‘Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Tom Clancy, Command Authority

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#25

“And to think of all the colors in the world, blood chose to be red.”
― Nelou Keramati

tags: paranormal, paranormal-romance, resonance, romance, the-fray-theory, the-fray-theory-resonance, urban-fantasy, ya, ya-romance, ya-urban-fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-paranormal, young-adult-romance

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#26

“My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.”
― James Frey, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

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#27

“Evet! Bu utanç verici gösteriyi izliyoruz, borçlar ve suçlar altında ezilmiş kişiler suçsuz ilan ediliyor; buna karşılık onurun ta kendisi, yaşamı lekesiz bir adam cezalandırılıyor. Bir toplum bu noktaya geldiği zaman, artık çürümeye başlamış demektir.”
― Émile Zola, J'accuse!

tags: edebiyat, literature

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#28

“That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

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#29

“We think that the word 'boy' or the the word 'girl' says something about who a person is, who they will be. But that difference is much less dictated by the body they're born in than created by what we expect of them and how we treat each other.”
― Sara Pascoe

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#30

“She finally had to admit she missed Hank. Hank and his beautiful dog face. Faithful hank, who was always by her side without grievance or judgement.Hank, who reminded her when it was time to eat and never let her sleep in.”
― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet

tags: courage, crime-fiction, emotional-scars, hidden-truths, introspective, plot-twists, self-discovery, shocking-twists, small-town-vibe, suspenseful

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