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#1

“If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, detective, fiction, fiction-novel, murder, realistic, thriller

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#2

“next”
― Barry Kirwan, Eden's Trial

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#3

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller

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#4

“Raya knew this type of girl – they never liked her. Usually they’d make fun of her, behind her back, but loud enough for her to hear. She was too alternative, too poor and too cynical – the foster kid – to be of any interest to these social climbers.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, curses, enchanting, fiction, intrigue, magic, magical, unpredictable, ya-litterature

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#5

“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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#6

“If you are a future donor recipient, remember: your family should be a part of your transformative journey. Both parties will experience growth as they find balance in your new life stage.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: heal, health, human-spirit, journey, pain, personal, suffering, thrive, transformational, trials

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#7

“Sergeant Max Franklin replied, “Just go back to your post at number six and keep your wits about you. The word from the Americans in “Big Red One” is that the Noggies are coming to us. I hope not, but it could be what you have been hearing.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, historical-fiction, history-resource, oceanian-fiction, research, southeast-asia, strategy, tactical, vietnam, war-recount

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#8

“Pretty isn’t permanent.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

tags: action, crime, drama, exciting, murder-thriller, past, suspicion

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#9

“I like it better here where I can sit just quietly and smell the flowers.”
― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

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#10

“She was with me the day I went to the paint store to pick out the color. I had a nice tan color in mind, but May latched on to this sample called Caribbean Pink. She said it made her feel like dancing a Spanish flamenco. I thought, "Well, this is the tackiest color I've ever seen, and we'll have half the town talking about us, but if it can lift May's heart like that, I guess she ought to live inside it."
"All this time I just figured you liked pink," I said.
She laughed again. "You know, some things don't matter that much, Lily.. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the over-all scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart-now, that matters. The whole problem with people is-"
"They don't know what matters and what doesn't," I said, filling in her sentence and feeling proud of myself for doing so.
"I was gonna say, The problem is they know what matters, but they don't choose it. You know how hard that is, Lily? I love May, but it was still so hard to choose Caribbean Pink. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

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#11

“Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become deadened, my distinctions of right and wrong confounded, and all my better faculties be sunk, at last, beneath the baneful influence of such a mode of life.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

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#12

“When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

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#13

“Az igazság az, hogy Leonora Penderton egy kissé gyengeelmejű volt.
Ez a szomorú tény nem tűnt fel sem az estélyeken, sem az istállóban, sem a vacsoraasztalnál. Mindössze hárman voltak tisztában vele: idős apja, akit nagyon aggasztott a helyzet, míg szerencsésen férjhez nem adta; a férje, aki minden negyvenen aluli nő termeszetes állapotának vélte a dolgot; valamint Morris Langdon őrnagy, aki csak annál jobban szerette érte.”
― Carson McCullers, Reflections in a Golden Eye

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#14

“Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence—neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish—it is an imponderably valuable gift.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

tags: 1993, time

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#15

“When I'm hung-over I try to imagine being old and look- ing back fondly on now, on this bit I'm currently living, and how in retrospect it might seem adventurous. In the future when I only ever sit in a chair because I'm too gnarled for pleasure or movement I'll remember when I stayed out all night and had life-changing conversations and walked all the way home because I lost my phone.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

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#16

“One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: action-packed, adventure, aliens, challenge, compelling, drama, fast-paced, science-fiction, struggles, thrilling

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#17

“Too pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one moment!" Piercing him with her best scary stare, she said, "It surprises me that no one has pointed out your glaringly obvious agenda, so let me be the first.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

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

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#18

“At what point does faith become insanity?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, magic, mystery, past, wit

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#19

“The most beautiful things in life are unassuming and simple to begin with.”
― Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

tags: inspirational-quotes, romantic-quotes

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#20

“Silently she stared at the splintered pieces and felt the flame in her soul gutter. The flame she had nurtured since she was a child. The flame that had in it what little sparks of happiness she had ever known as well as all her hopes and dreams for the future. She had tended it so carefully and for so long, and in one, horrendous, agonizing second, felt it simply... go out.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: captivating, drama, fiction, fiction-writing, intrigue, literary-romance, romance

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#21

“Didn’t anyone ever teach you to watch where you were going?” he teased.

“Didn’t anyone ever teach you to put your things away so that people didn’t trip over them?” she quickly fired back, irritated that he found the entire situation amusing. “And while we are talking, I truly need to know. Do you ever wear clothes?”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

tags: achievement, adventure, clean-romance, contemporary-romance, enemies-to-lovers, goals, hope, reality, romance-novel, small-town-romance-contemporary

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#22

“Beauty! Terrible Beauty!
A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!”
― Homer, The Iliad

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#23

“Ulick Norman Owen—Una Nancy Owen—each time, that is to say, U. N. Owen. Or by a slight stretch of fancy, UNKNOWN!”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

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#24

“Sometimes I wonder, Balram. I wonder what's the point of living. I really wonder...'
The point of living? My heart pounded The point of your living is that if you die, who's going to pay me three and a half thousand rupees a month? ”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

tags: humor

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#25

“I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

tags: choices, life, nonconformity

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#26

“My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me.”
― Franz Kafka

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#27

“The young lady's countenance, which had before worn an almost livid look of hatred, assumed a smile that was perhaps scarcely more agreeable.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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#28

“If any of them fail me, I will flush them from an airlock into the pit of space, like an unwanted turd. Do I make myself clear?”
― A.R. Merrydew, Inara

tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, compelling, deep, future, humanity, sci-fi, science-fiction, suspense, thriller

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#29

“Nothing looked disturbed…yet everything felt that way. The guy was on the bed, calmness itself, as though he’d decided on a moment’s lie-down and just zizzed off.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: dark, death, drama, intrigue, manipulation, mystery, paranormal, revenge, suspense, thriller

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#30

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

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