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    Max Nowaz
    “Some people say
    Rhyming is but a sin.
    Little sins are fun
    So try, before you bin.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Timbi's Dream
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “As Aristocleia raised her cup to toast Xanthippus, her gown slipped from her shoulders, exquisite as Aphrodite’s, and flowed like the water that slid over her naked breasts when she allowed him to watch her bathe. It was wonderful to possess a gem of a woman. It made a man feel beautiful and godlike himself, briefly.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: 5th-century-bc, action, drama, enchantment, entertaining, fiction, literary-fiction, love, romance
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    K. Ritz
    “Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fiction, historical-fantasy, intrigue, magic, mystery
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    John Rachel
    “Violence was a slippery slope, lubricated by a lot of blood, if history had any lessons to teach.”
    ― John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun
    tags: drug-cartels, drug-trafficking, haruki-murakami, intrigue, japan, kenya, mystery-thriller, nigeria, true-crime, uganda
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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
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    Sara Pascoe
    “Even though it's only a minority of men who are violent or predatory, I don't know if men realise that girls are trained our entire lives to minimise the danger from you - and blamed if we don't.”
    ― Sara Pascoe
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    Anthony Doerr
    “They’ll say you’re too little, Werner, that you’re from nowhere, that you shouldn’t dream big. But I believe in you. I think you’ll do something great.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Catherine Marshall
    “I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.”
    ― Catherine Marshall, Christy
    tags: maturation, parenthood
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    Thomas Harris
    “Silence can mock.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    John Hersey
    “ABOUT a week after the bomb dropped, a vague, incomprehensible rumor reached Hiroshima—that the city had been destroyed by the energy released when atoms were somehow split in two.”
    ― John Hersey, Hiroshima
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    A.S. Byatt
    “Suppressing natural feelings, Methley said, in the end distorted both mind and body. And excluding them from the consideration of novelists distorted the novel, infantilised it, turned good fiction into bad lying.”
    ― A.S. Byatt, The Children's Book
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    “I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four."
    He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four.”
    ― Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six
    tags: chest, four, nine, omg
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