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    Steven Decker
    “We do not sleep,” said Aya. “These bodies do not require it. All they need is food to provide them with energy. Sleep is not needed.”
    ― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind
    tags: action, contemporary, death, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, general, life, paranormal, sci-fi
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    “Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God
    that you never experience what some of the people in this war zone go
    through, everyday, without any hope of it getting better. Ever. Compared
    to these people, every day, no matter how bad, is the best day ever. I
    know nothing about pain, nothing about suffering and hopefully never will.”
    ― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever
    tags: biography, dreams, events, journey, life, life-journey, memoir, travel, true
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    Karen Hinton
    “Should I stay in Greenville, teach my students, or work for Mike Espy (in Washington, DC)….Capitol Hill had many more men than women walking the halls, whether they were members of Congress or congressional and committee staff or lobbyists. The receptionist was usually a woman, and the chief of staff, a man. Sometimes I wondered why anyone in Washington would want to listen to what a girl from Soso, Mississippi, had to say.”
    ― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
    tags: coming-of-age, entertaining, glass-ceiling, human-weakness, karen-hinton, life-story, politics, power, pros
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    Sybrina Durant
    “123”
    ― Sybrina Durant, 123 Count With Me: Fun With Numbers and Animals
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    Dean Mafako
    “I reached and grabbed ahold of the garden rake that was leaned up against the tree, when suddenly I felt my heart begin to race and I began to feel dizzy as my visual field became black. That is the last thing I recall before awakening to find myself lying on the ground in the front yard, with the handle of the rake resting on my chest.”
    ― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out
    tags: heartfelt, helping-others, hospital-bureaucracy, humour, manipulation, medical, medical-drama, medical-fiction, overworked, passion
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    Eli Wilde
    “The culling bunker is from the old-world, a long time in the past. Babies don’t spread the infection anymore. Maybe they never did.”
    ― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons
    tags: ai, distant-future, fantasy, fast-paced, gripping, horror, intrigue, romance, tense
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    Patrick G. Cox
    “James climbed into the transport vehicle, and the moment Felicity’s eyes met his was practically charged with electricity, the attraction was so strong. Her smile was just the balm he needed.
    “Here I am, Captain, alive and well, never better. I think I even lost a few pounds in my enforced confinement!”
    “Felicity, good to see you. You look great as always. But I have to ask, do you usually resort to such extreme measures when you want to stand up a partner for a dinner date?”
    He saw the tease in her eyes as she smiled at him. “Only in exceptional circumstances—or when someone leaves me no option.”
    ― Patrick G Cox, First into the Fray
    tags: conspiracies, conspire, domination, exciting, exploration, fast-paced, plots, sci-fi, secrets, treachery
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    Karl Braungart
    “They are the tracking devices we put into their suitcases. We’ll be there in less than a half-hour.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity
    tags: action, army, espionage, intelligence, nuclear-waste, officers, terrorist, traitors, us-army, us-intelligence
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  • #9
    P.D. Eastman
    “Oh oh!” said the
    mother bird. “My baby
    will be here! He will
    want to eat.”
    ― P.D. Eastman, Are You My Mother?
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  • #10
    Khaled Hosseini
    “There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Patrick Süskind
    “He had soon so thoroughly smelled out the quarter between Saint-Eustache and the Hôtel de Ville that he could find his way around in it by pitch-dark night. And so he expanded his hunting grounds, first westward to the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, then out along the rue Saint-Antoine to the Bastille, and finally across to the other bank of the river into the quarters of the Sorbonne and the Faubourg Saint-Germain where the rich people lived.”
    ― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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    Philippa Gregory
    “Jane," I said quietly.
    She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer.
    "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying."
    "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.”
    ― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl
    tags: flirt, henry-viii, jane-seymour, mary-boleyn, threat
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    Ayn Rand
    “Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”
    ― Ayn Rand
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  • #14
    Madeline Miller
    “There is no honour in betraying your friends.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: advice, betrayal, friendship, morality
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