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    Max Nowaz
    “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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    Yvonne Korshak
    “We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: ancient-athens, fiction, history, immersive, literature, love, military-campaigns, philosophical
    336 likes

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    Stephen Douglass
    “I can’t wait for the day when we’ll never have to say ‘goodbye’ to each other again.”
    ― Stephen Douglass, The Bridge To Caracas
    tags: crime, romance, thriller, trilogy
    132 likes

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  • #4
    Virgil
    “Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”
    ― Virgil
    61 likes

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    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--”
    ― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream
    tags: fear, love, trying
    273 likes

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  • #6
    Garth Stein
    “the result is what people live with, not the cause.”
    ― Garth Stein, A Sudden Light
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  • #7
    Carson McCullers
    “It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    52 likes

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  • #8
    Candace L. Talmadge
    “You must tell the true story of the Arkstone and the Toltecs — and the
    Turanians. Through you and your tale those who are born into humankind
    in later years will remember. You will stir their soul memories.”
    ― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
    tags: azgard, betrayal, destiny, heartbreak, magical-artifact, mystical-realms, paranormal-fiction, reincarnation, social-inequality, strong-female-protagonist
    62 likes

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  • #9
    “There will be a time when I will answer everything, Avelyn. But it is far in the future for you.”
    ― Jack Borden, The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel
    tags: character-growth, dark-lands, determination, dramatic, fantasy-series, heart-stopping, overcoming-fear, reluctant-hero, sacrifice, toadskunks
    79 likes

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  • #10
    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
    “Low employee engagement is a symptom of a suboptimal workplace culture”
    ― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
    tags: empathy, employees, evidence-based, full-potential, guidebook, improving, leadership, non-fiction, social-contract, structure
    106 likes

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  • #11
    “If you want to be my boyfriend then you must kiss me. That’s how it works.”
    ― R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach
    tags: 1960s-america, change, deception, family-drama, heartfelt, jake-johnson, life-lessons, resilience, role-models, small-town-setting
    35 likes

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  • #12
    Sara Pascoe
    “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
    1557 likes

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  • #13
    Edward Abbey
    “I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.”
    ― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
    tags: happy-endings, hope
    37 likes

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    Bernhard Schlink
    “Verleugnen ist eine unscheinbare Varianten des Verrats. Von außen ist nichts zu sehen, ob einer verleugnet oder nur Diskretion übt, Rücksicht nimmt, Peinlichkeiten und Ärgerlichkeiten meidet. Aber der, der sich nicht bekennt, weiß es genau.”
    ― Bernhard Schlink
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  • #15
    Alex Haley
    “kafo.”
    ― Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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  • #16
    Walt Whitman
    “Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: beginnings
    458 likes



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