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#1

“A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied with a smirk.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: action-packed, assasination, drama, dystopian, gripping, love, romance, supremacist, thriller, thrilling

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#2

“I’m a soldier,’ Nathan said. ‘We’re all soldiers, now. Soldiers don’t leave people behind.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

tags: action, dark, suffering, suspense

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#3

“Hestia sighed. ‘Stepping inside a mirror is like stepping into Pandora’s Box. It is a world of illusion and fragility. If the mirror is broken then so, too, will be whoever is inside the mirror at the time it is broken.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

tags: changeling, disabled-hero, fantasy-young-adult, mirror, ya-horror

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#4

“The person at the other end is answering questions from a person she has never met and about whom she knows nothing. Good manners from you will certainly elicit a more complete response than a threatening or superior attitude.”
― Nancy O'Meara, The Cult around the Corner: A Handbook on Dealing with Other People's Religions

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#5

“The artillery fire which helped in holding off the enemy advance against the Australian positions appeared to be getting always closer. A radio operator called Vic Grice somehow replaced the antenna on Buick’s radio. That had been shot off, thus rendering the radio in-operational.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, vietnam, war, war-recount

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#6

“That’s the second time you’ve apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line.”
― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

tags: danger, fast-paced, fiction, kidnapping, pulp-thriller, sea, special-ops, terrorism, thriller, trauma

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#7

“Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long in prison.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, trauma, unpredictable

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#8

“Pavel is not a doctor any more, Bruno' said Maria quietly. 'But he was. In another life. Before he came here”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#9

“It was a question above all of personal and national honour, because the important thing was that Greece should come through this trial without the slightest imputation of turpitude. When soldiers are dead, when a country is devastated and destroyed, it is honour that survives and endures. It is honour that breathes life into the corpse when evil times have passed.”
― Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript

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#10

“People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.”
― Lisa See

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#11

“Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

tags: women

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#12

“In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#13

“Fairness isn’t about charity. It’s smart business.”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

tags: academic, bias, chemistry, emotional-intelligence, grounded, power-balance, relationship, research, teamwork, workplace-norms

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#14

“Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: editing, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing

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#15

“We’ve got to go to the police,” Alec repeated. He wondered if somebody was actually dead or if the vicar had imagined it. But then there was the bloody cassock.
“Come with me,” Father Joe pleaded. “It’s just down the road in my vestry. And then we can decide what we should do about the police.”
Alec thought he might as well. There might be a story in it if it was something to do with Charlotte de Tournet. Would people remember her disappearance? It was so long ago. But then there was the connection to Baroness Freya Saumures …”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

tags: deception, dual-timelines, english-village, investigative-reporting, police-procedurals, star-crossed-lovers, tension, unfulfilled-love, war-correspondent, wartime-trauma

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#16

“She must feel like Lucifer’s frigid breath is running down the back of her delicate neck.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#17

“Marco would much rather wait, buy his mother a lovely house and then bring Isabela to visit, allowing his poverty to take on a romantic tinge, something from the past, roots safely buried.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: 1920s, ambition-vs-principle, double-life, historical-upheaval, literary-fiction, nostalgia, poignant, puerto-rico, sacrifice, urban-poverty

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#18

“Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: children-s, fantasy, occult, paranormal, supernatural, teenagers, urban, ya-paranormal, young-adult

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#19

“All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#20

“But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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#21

“Journey’s end

In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
The trees may bud, the waters run,
The merry finches sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,
And swaying branches bear
The Elven-stars as jewels white
Amid their branching hair.

Though here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried deep,
Beyond all towers strong and high,
Beyond all mountains steep,
Above all shadows rides the Sun
And Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: life, poem

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#22

“This wasn’t a way of getting over a passing crush on your older sister’s swain. This was the moon of Jupiter and the sun of Venus aligning in the sky over her head.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

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#23

“If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#24

“Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!”
― Clement C. Moore, Twas the Night before Christmas A Visit from St. Nicholas

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