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    K. Ritz
    “The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, engaging, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery
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    A.R. Merrydew
    “The computer began to titter. ‘Well it’s a long story honey, but the concise version is this. Talalia has been a bad girl. She was grounded for six months after her last trip.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, Inara
    tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, compelling, deep, future, humanity, sci-fi, science-fiction, suspense, thriller
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    Diane Merrill Wigginton
    “Didn’t anyone ever teach you to watch where you were going?” he teased.

    “Didn’t anyone ever teach you to put your things away so that people didn’t trip over them?” she quickly fired back, irritated that he found the entire situation amusing. “And while we are talking, I truly need to know. Do you ever wear clothes?”
    ― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position
    tags: achievement, adventure, clean-romance, contemporary-romance, enemies-to-lovers, goals, hope, reality, romance-novel, small-town-romance-contemporary
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    Sara Pascoe
    “Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fiction, historical-fantasy, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal
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    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Looking over the Ethan's bowed head, amidst the tangled forest of Wilderness littered with the bodies of men dead and dying, Victor saw the serene image of his mother.  She smiled at her son, her unbound black hair blowing wildly in the breeze.  She reached a hand out towards him, and this time, he went with her.”
    ― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
    tags: american-historical-romance, historical-romance, historical-victorian-romance, history, love, passion, romance, torment, victorian-romance
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    Max Nowaz
    “Where’s everybody? I thought you had started production.”
“They’ve got a day off, but don’t worry you’ll see the machinery is here.”
But Brown was worried. As they entered the canteen, the lights came on
automatically. There was nobody there.
“What’s going…...” but he never finished the sentence. Brown felt a sharp pain on the
side of his head and everything went black.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: action, action-thriller-fiction, drama, fiction, intrigue, mystery, suspense, thriller
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    Lisa Kaniut Cobb
    “If he could blush through his fur, he would have.”
    ― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley
    tags: action, animals, conflict, mountains, nature, pain, relationships, tense, violence, ya-fantasy
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    Kathryn Stockett
    “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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    Kathleen Zamboni McCormick
    “they’re teaching us that the real Catholic belief about Mary is that she got pregnant through her ear—that “Just as Eve listened to Satan and gave birth to sin, so Mary listened to Gabriel and became pregnant with the Son of God.”
    ― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood
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    Lemony Snicket
    “It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator
    tags: ersatz-elevatorr, lemony-snicket
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    Tracy Chevalier
    “Donne in eccedenza", così venivano chiamate quelle rimaste nubili a causa della guerra e che difficilmente si sarebbero sposate, una minaccia, anzi una vera tragedia, per una società basata sul matrimonio. Violet aveva pensato che col tempo ci avrebbe fatto l'abitudine, invece a trentotto anni suonati le bruciava ancora l'idea di essere una donna in eccedenza.”
    ― Tracy Chevalier
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    Kim Edwards
    “Now that he was in school, he had his own life. He no longer liked to site and cuddle with her unless he was sick or wanted her to read him a story before bed.”
    ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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    Max Nowaz
    “You don’t think he’s our man?” asked Adam. It occurred to him that Ramsbottom was not exactly forthcoming with information.
    “I didn’t say that,” Ramsbottom said. “In fact he is behaving very cautiously indeed, which makes me feel very suspicious.”
    “He has probably figured out that you are following him,” said Adam. “One can hardly fail to notice you hanging around all the time.”
    “That may be so,” said Ramsbottom.
    “Can’t you get a disguise or something?” asked Adam. “So he does not recognise you.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
    tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller
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  • #14
    “A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris had stopped again, his silhouette a stark black juxtaposition against the background of illuminated branches.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: descriptive-prose, visual-moments
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    A.R. Merrydew
    “And Tarquin,’ Semilla said quietly. ‘He has been in league with them all along?’
    ‘Yes, I am afraid so,’ Rupert confirmed.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
    tags: android, fast-paced, future, good-v-s-evil, literary-fiction, mission, mystery, tags-adventure, thrilling
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  • #16
    “Scott could feel the contents of his stomach flip over and over on themselves. He turned to the side and retched, frothy yellow bile spilled out onto the newspaper covered floor, filling the room with the putrid stench of previously ingested alcohol.

    'Look's like someone can't hold their drink,' McBlane said, and Dominic and Shugg laughed.

    Scott was still staring at the steam rising from his evacuated stomach contents as he heard the hammer fall. The dull crack of bone splintering under its weight.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: murder, prose, visual-moments
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: artificiality, costume, fashion
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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    James Herriot
    “I looked”
    ― James Herriot, All Things Bright and Beautiful
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    Euripides
    “فهذا ما يحافظ على مدن البشر ويجمعها معاً: الحفاظ على القانون.”
    ― Euripides, Suppliant Women
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