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#1

“Some days are better than others, for human optimism has no limits.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

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#2

“What the hell, if you are going to roll the dice with Lucifer, I say go the distance.”
― 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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#3

“We slept in the same bed.
There was never a right time to say it.
It was always unnecessary.
The books in my father's shed were sighing.
The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna's breathing.
I thought about waking her.
but it was unnecessary.
There would be other nights.
And how can you say I love you to someone you love?
I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her.
Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you...
It's always necessary.
I love you,...”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

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#4

“Who would have thought, Mr. Jiabao,
that of this whole family, the lady with the short skirt would be the one with
a conscience?”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

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#5

“In Marie’s opinion, the OASIS was the best thing that had ever happened to both women and people of color. From the very start, Marie had used a white male avatar to conduct all of her online business, because of the marked difference it made in how she was treated and the opportunities she was given. When”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

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#6

“Friendship is a combination of art and craft. The craft part is in knowing how to give and how to take. The art part is in knowing when, and the whole process only works when no one is keeping track.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World

tags: friendship

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#7

“Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.AMD”
― Founding Fathers, The United States Constitution

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#8

“She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

tags: aging, loss, time, youth

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#9

“I need a minute.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

tags: bloodshed, child, compelling, destruction, fiction, genetics, mothers-love, planetary-destruction, senses, struggles

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#10

“Get up you lazy bastard. The Governor wants a word with you,” said a guard.  He opened his eyes and smiled. There was another guard standing near the cell door in  anticipation of any trouble. The prisoner smiled at him, too.  Now what can the Governor want from me? He wondered. His dishevelled form seemed  incapable of coherent thought. “It’s nice of him to remember me,” he said aloud, trying to  concentrate. “Surprising he’s got any time for a worthless shit like you,” said the first guard.  “I once used to be a very important person,” the prisoner said feebly.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: 21st-century, action, drama, intrigue, thriller, thriller-novels-best

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#11

“Chuck skipped through the rest of the preamble to the actual examples
Spaceguard had chronicled:
“On March 23rd, 1989, an asteroid designated Asteroid 1989FC missed
hitting the Earth by six hours. This little jewel packed the energy of
roughly a thousand of the most powerful nuclear bombs, and the human
race became aware of it shortly after its closest approach. Had this celestial
baseball been only six hours later most of the population of the Earth
would have been eliminated with zero warning.”
“In October of 1990, an asteroid that would have been considered
very small, struck the Pacific Ocean. This little fellow only packed the
energy of a small atomic bomb, about the same as the one that flattened
Hiroshima, and if it had arrived a few hours later or earlier it could have
easily struck a city rather than making a relatively harmless splash into
the center of the ocean. Remember, relatively here, is just a comparative
term.” ”
― Jody Summers, The Mayan Legacy

tags: adventure, doomsday, gripping, irreversible-damage, justice, mission, mystery, ranch, science-fiction, turmoil

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#12

“It started to feel like this thing happening to me was an invisible wall between us, a barrier none of us wanted to acknowledge but that was continuously pushing us apart. I started to feel like an outsider even among my closest friends.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

tags: dark-side, facade, haunted, hidden, hidden-world, impossible, occult, occult-power, secret-world, secrets

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#13

“The evening came to a close and the two women walked hand-in-hand back to the hut, the waves breaking gently on the beach, the stars out up above, a buzz in their heads from the wine and beer. As close to paradise as I could ever imagine, thought Dani.”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain

tags: absorbing, action, drama, fiction, history, lies, literary-fiction, science-fiction, scifi, time-chain

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#14

“Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
            Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit

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#15

“Winston, how’s she going b’y?” asked Herb in the familiar Newfoundland greeting.
Windflower gave the appropriate response. “She’s going good, b’y.”
― Mike Martin, Too Close For Comfort

tags: dreams, exhilarating, fear, law, sacred-medicines, spirit-world, suspicion, threat, unpredictable, warmth

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#16

“After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: descriptive-prose, prison, prisoner

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#17

“Still I chase the wind
   and float as a gentle breeze
  up among the stars
  then descending
  as a bird down amidst the trees.”
― Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

tags: compassion, empower, energy, gratitude, joy, personal-development, smile, soar, take-risks, wander

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#18

“The soul speaks only through love on different levels of vibration. Love is its root of existence, the living energy that is felt but not seen.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: erotic-poetry, experiences, guiding-goddess, honour, intimate, life, love-poetry, reflection, spiritualism, well-being

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#19

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”
― Voltaire

tags: ignorance, wisdom

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#20

“Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.”
― Dean Koontz

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#21

“...no money, no church service, no eulogy,no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit." p 354”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

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#22

“She gave him a brief, mysterious smile. “You were watching me. I felt you before I saw you.”
So? This is a crime? he thought, determined not to retreat.
Did you study cultural physiology?
The eyes of Italian males are hardwired from birth to examine, observe, even caress, if you will, the female form. Any form. Some we glance at. Some we don’t really see, like our mothers and sisters. Some we ignore, and some we store as reference for the future. Got it?”
― Vincent Panettiere, Shared Sorrows

tags: drama, fiction, fiction-novel, guilt, love, mystery-novel, redemption, romance, sorrow, suffering

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#23

“Tick, tock.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

tags: onomatopoeia

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#24

“Somatize: how the body defends itself against too much stress, manifesting psychological distress as physical symptoms in the stomach or nerves or uterus or vagina... women who had suffered physical, emotional, and sexual abuse tended to somatize more. It turns out that somatization is related to hysteria, which stems from the Greek cognate of uterus... Uterus = hysteria. Hysteria -- a word to make women feel insane for knowing what they know. Hysteria is caused by suffering from a huge traume where there is an underlying conflict.”
― Eve Ensler, In the Body of the World

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