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    Susan Rowland
    “The girl flinched, even lying down. Mary continued through gritted teeth. “Murder can’t be walked away from. Just like you can’t walk away from Viktor. He’ll find you if you run. Richard can’t protect you if Viktor believes you have his babies.”
    ― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds
    tags: action, adventure, drama, fast-paced, fiction-novel, murder-mystery, thriller
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    K. Ritz
    “The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, engaging, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery
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    Voltaire
    “Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)”
    ― voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: excellence, inadequacy, works-backwards-too
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    Colleen McCullough
    “I have discovered," he said to Charles Dewy, "that when a man marries, peace of mind and freedom go out of the window."
    "Well, old boy," said Charles comfortably, "that's the price we have to pay for having company in our old age and for ensuring that we have heirs to follow us.”
    ― Colleen McCullough
    tags: marriage, men-and-women
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    Robert Munsch
    “I'll love you forever,
    I'll like you for always,
    As long as I'm living
    my baby you'll be.”
    ― Robert Munsch, Love You Forever
    tags: childhood
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    Dave Cullen
    “If we care about ending this, we in the media need to see our role as clearly as the perps have. We did not start this, nor have we pulled any triggers. But the killers have made us reliable partners. We supply the audience, they provide the show.”
    ― Dave Cullen, Columbine
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    Eugene O'Neill
    “If that ghost have money I tells him never to haunt you -- less'n he wants to lose it!”
    ― Eugene O'Neill, The Emperor Jones
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    Fynn
    “You don’t have to want things outside you to fill up the gaps inside you. You don’t leave bits of you hanging around on objects in shop-windows, in catalogues or on advertising hoardings. Wherever you go you take your whole self with you, you don’t leave bits lying around to get stamped on, you’re all of a piece,”
    ― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna
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    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “The third story is told in a long and detailed letter written to a friend by Sergeant Benjamin Katz, an orderly in the Royal Army Medical Corps. … This letter is completely different from the other accounts, emotional, shocking, heartbreaking, funny and unforgettable.”
    ― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942
    tags: appalling-conditions, british-soldier, desperate-refugees, disease, facts, lies, literature, secrets, starvation, true-accounts
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  • #10
    “She raised the gun.
    Fired.
    The sound cracked through the cabin like a door
    slamming on the past.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, Secrets
    tags: drama, ense, excitement, fiction-novel, fictional, horror, psychological-thriller, redemptive, self-actualisation, thriller
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  • #11
    “To whomever swapped my tattoo cream for toothpaste........ well played.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: humour, humourous-situations, tattoo, tattoos
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    Behcet Kaya
    “Rudy? You can’t take the stairs. We’re having dinner on the 71st floor.”
    “It’s okay, Boss. I can walk up.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Murder in Buckhead
    tags: action, crime, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, sleuth, thriller
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: epigram
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    Marcel Proust
    “For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of hawthorns in blossom, and I have been led to believe, and to make someone else believe, in a renewal of affection, by what was no more than an inclination to travel.”
    ― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
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    Jean Craighead George
    “حين يتملكك الخوف، غير مما أنت فاعله، فإنك تفعل شيئاً فارقه الصواب”
    ― Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves
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    Azar Nafisi
    “Einstein was articulate and well-read, a lover of classical music, and it was he who said, "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world”
    ― Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
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    David Wroblewski
    “He felt not hungry, not thirsty, not tired, not even remotely bored, simply above all physical concern, in communion with the movement of time and the world’s steady turning, and he wondered if this was how it felt to be immortal, to know that life had a definite vessel, a tangible purpose: caretaker and courier of the rare, the valuable, the beloved.”
    ― David Wroblewski, Familiaris
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    Susan Cain
    “the secret that our poets and philosophers have been trying to tell us for centuries, is that our longing is the great gateway to belonging.”
    ― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
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