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#1

“Talk about delusional. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree. His mother’s doctor reported she’d recently been plagued by wild imaginings, too. Make believe ran in his family. He was nuttier than a jar of peanut butter.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Crossover

tags: 21st-century, dark, fast-paced, intrigue, mystery-thriller-authors, suffering, thriller, thriller-novels

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#2

“Christian does a great job helping an aspiring writer get inspired to write and finish their book. It’s easy to read and understand, and provides encouragement and specific guidance, without being too harsh or detailed on fiction writing only. If you are struggling with how to put your thoughts onto paper, give this a read and establish a rhythm for your writing. Christian’s success at completing over 21 published manuscripts while leading a busy life are testament in if there is a will, there is a way. And it provides some good humor throughout.”
Rachel Braynin, Sr Program Manager at Lulu Publishing”
― Christian Warren Freed, So...You Want to Write a Book?

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#3

“I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives though. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?” “You insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you think of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be you. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.” “You mean you don't hate me?” This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him. He was used to hate, he could deal with it, but this he could not understand, he had used the girl ruthlessly and yet she did not hate him.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, action-and-adventure, action-thriller, favourite-books, suspense, thriller, thriller-writing

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#4

“Roughly translated into English I am Galactic Exploration and Research Intelligence number twenty-seven.” “The first letter of those words comes out G.E.R.I., so I’ll call you GERI if that’s okay.”
― C.A. Knutsen, Tom and G.E.R.I.

tags: adventure, drama, entertaining, et, gravity, literature, sci-fi, science-fiction, spaceship, ya

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#5

“Whenever I felt like that, I would have a chat with my own Fat Mary. She was like the sweet fresh air after the rain. She brought me newness, clarity, and relief. She managed to get in touch with and resurrect the free spirit deep inside me. Being one with the spirit allowed me to soar above my everyday reality. I marveled at the beauty of all life and savored the power and possibilities of my imagination.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

tags: determined, fighting-spirit, free-spirit, inspirational, powerful-woman, processing-emotions, spirituality, survivor

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#6

“It had taken me a full three days to read and study the police reports. My initial thought was to find what I thought I wanted to see, but I quickly abolished that idea because I couldn’t tell what I needed to see. There was just too much information. I never really knew where that break was going to come from and I didn’t want to miss anything.”
― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

tags: crime, investigate, murder

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#7

“The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles.”
― Christine M Knight, Life Song

tags: hope, inspirtational, overcoming-adversity, triumph

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#8

“In the narrow thread of sod between the shaved banks and the toppling fences grow the relics of what once was Illinois — the prairie.

No one in the bus sees these relics. A worried farmer, his fertilizer bill projecting from his shirt pocket, looks blankly at the lupines, lespedezas or Baptisias that originally pumped nitrogen out of the prairie air and into his black loamy acres. He does not distinguish them from the parvenu quack-grass in which they grow. Were I to ask him the name of that white spike of pea-like flowers hugging the fence, he would shake his head. A weed, likely.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac; with essays on conservation from Round River

tags: wildlife

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#9

“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: conscience, innocence

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#10

“Too many people follow their own happiness without a thought for the damage they leave in their wake.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

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#11

“So, a little morphine, a good sweat, and a bowel movement—the cure for everything that ails you.”
― Charles Frazier, Varina

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#12

“The bottom line was that he didn't want to die. As far as he was concerned, death was the problem. The basic human problem. Everyone's problem. He wasn't any different from anyone else, but there was no consolation in that.”
― David Guterson, Ed King

tags: death, dying, existential-crisis

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#13

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

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#14

“Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof. It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars. Therefore, let both kingdoms live in peace.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#15

“Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.”
― Nicole Krauss

tags: togetherness

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#16

“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. ”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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#17

“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
― H.G. Wells

tags: attributed-no-source

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#18

“The man in the corner hollered, "Tell it all!”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

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#19

“None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac: A Biography

tags: life-lessons, wisdom

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#20

“We comes from God, I from the Devil.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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#21

“Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

tags: carelessness, obligations, poverty, wealth

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#22

“But if there are spirits, I do not see why they are not everywhere, or may not be presumed to be so. You could argue that their voices may well be muffled by solid brick walls and thick plush furnishings and house-proud antimacassars. But the mahogany-polishers and the drapers' clerks are as much in need of salvation - as much desirous of assurance of a afterlife - as poets or peasants, in the last resort.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

tags: spiritualism

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#23

“I'm sorry.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

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#24

“Proverbs 22:7: “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

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#25

“God’s mercy and grace over y circumstances propelled my faith and caused me to experience significant spiritual growth.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: covid, dialysis, eye-opening, good-health, grief, inspiring, personal, transformation, wellbeing

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#26

“The Kielburgers are extremely accomplished and educated people who have demonstrated that they know how to build an organization, sell a vision, and court powerful people. If they had wanted to make loads of money and eat caviar on a private yacht, they could have taken lucrative private-sector jobs and done just that. It is absurd to think that they instead decided to work sixteen-hour days for twenty-five years, spend hundreds of days per year apart from their families, and invest everything they had in building a global charity—all as a means to funnel money back to themselves.”
― Tawfiq S. Rangwala, What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity

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#27

“Quien considera el mundo como considera la fortuna de su propio cuerpo puede gobernar el mundo. A quien ama el mundo como ama a su propio cuerpo puede confiársele el mundo. Tao Te Ching, poema 13”
― Lou Marinoff, El poder del Tao

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#28

“As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning blow!” (Giap, 1990)”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: american-army, commandos, defence, division, french-army, helpless, invasion, political, special-forces, war

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#29

“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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#30

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma

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