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    Dawn Chalker
    “What is she looking for?  She thought she had found it with Kyle.  But maybe she hadn’t. Perhaps she was looking for stability, security, sameness because her growing-up years had seemed so fragmented, and she often felt unsure of how she fit in.  Maybe stability isn’t all she is looking for.”
    ― Dawn Chalker, Lost and Found
    tags: drama, love, love-story, page-turner, pain, searching, security, stability, struggles, values
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The April forced ‘Resettlement’ of the villages of Long Phuoc, and Long Tan inflamed the already seething hatred of foreigners by the local Vietnamese people. They had only recently removed the French yoke after almost a century of cruel and repressive French rule. Now here were the Americans and their allies who in the Vietnamese eyes were continuing to do as the French had done before them. Into this sort of environment of hate, the Australian soldiers were sent to complete what the Americans had started.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: educational, entertaining, factual, indochina-war, insightful, political-dictatorship, united, unity, unrest, warring
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    Steven Decker
    “Mrs. Moreland, I am now remanding you into the custody of the Maricopa County Sheriff ’s Office while you await your sentence. All bond is revoked.
    We are adjourned.”
    ― Steven Decker, INNOCENT AGAIN: A LEGAL THRILLER
    tags: dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, mystery, noir-mystery, suspense, thriller
    29 likes

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    Shafter Bailey
    “The weather was as ready as the school and campus. The sky was cloudless and the temperature was expected to top out at 76 degrees. Early morning mowers had sugared the air with the fragrance of freshly mowed grass.”
    ― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings
    tags: divine-miracles, extraordinary-leadership, fighting-adversity, heartwarming-tale, human-redemption, redemptive-journey, societal-issues-resolved, speaking-truth, transformative-journey, voice-of-truth
    60 likes

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    Sara Pascoe
    “What's that Einstein quote about expecting different results from the same person? I shouldn't feel bad - I'm here, aren't I, I'm not the parent who didn't even text. Or the one who locked themselves in their bedroom half of Christmas. Talking like this, it's become clear that we are the main parts. This has all been about us, the sisters. I hadn't realised. I tell my mouth not to share these thoughts and Dana offers me another cigarette.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo
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    Robert Reid
    “Some twenty-five miles to the north, the army of Bala was making progress as fast as it could towards the Coe Mountains. When the thunderous noise of the destruction in the Pass of Ing reached them, they turned to see the pass erupting like an angry volcano. The flames, even at this distance, were terrifying and shock was etched on every face as each man considered the defiant bravery of the day before, a bravery that could have had them consumed by withering fire.
    Robert Reid – White Light Red Fire”
    ― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire
    tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy
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    K. Ritz
    “Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, humour, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, sorcery
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  • #8
    “I have watched people come to revival meetings burdened, broken, and hopeless, and then leave completely transformed. The difference is undeniable—their eyes are brighter, their posture changes, and their spirit is lighter because Jesus set them free.”
    ― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression
    tags: broke, change, freedom, heal, healing, hopeful, jesus, journey, spirit, tranform
    253 likes

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    Lotchie Burton
    “There’s no point in fighting me on this. Wherever you go, one, or both of us will be with you. Period. Get used to it. Short of actually sleeping on your doorstep, I’m going to follow you everywhere. I’m going to be so close that if you turn your head for a breath I’ll be there to give you mouth-to-mouth. So, you may as well just give in and take me with you. It’ll save us both a lot of time and frustration.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire
    tags: dark, drama, dramatic, emotionally-charged, hardship, romantic, suspense, tense
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  • #10
    Nicole Krauss
    “...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, Great House
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    Lynne Truss
    “I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, “I should have used fewer semicolons” – and although I have spent months fruitlessly trying to track down the chap responsible, I believe it none the less. If it turns out that no one actually did say this on their deathbed, I shall certainly save it up for my own.”
    ― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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    Tom Sechrist
    “The pen is mightier than the sword... an considerably easier to write with. - Marty Feldman”
    ― Tom Sechrist
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Quien quiere de verdad quiere en silencio, con hechos, nunca con palabras.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, La sombra del viento
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    Kathleen Zamboni McCormick
    “The Mother of God. Good-looking. Well-dressed. A good person. Knows how to make the absolute best of a situation. And never uppity about any of it.”
    ― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood
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  • #15
    Ellen Raskin
    “The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!”
    ― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game
    tags: first-lines
    28 likes



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