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  • #1
    Max Nowaz
    “Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
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    Dean Mafako
    “They remained imprisoned in the CICU, kept alive in physicality by mechanical devices and medicinal support, inexorably suffering. I revered their resiliency, though I struggled to understand whether they were truly resilient or if this was a descriptive term I used to assure myself that what we were doing was just. Could they merely represent physical beings at this point, molecular derivatives of carbon and water, void of souls that had moved on months prior once the universe had delivered their inevitable fate, simply kept alive by us physicians, who ourselves clutched desperately to the most favored of our prehistoric binary measures of success: life?”
    ― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out
    tags: action, burnout, children-s-hospital, drama, healthcare, humour, icu-setting, relationships, stress, trauma
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    Sara Pascoe
    “He thrust his shoulders back and spoke in a whisper that sounded like the hiss of a snake.
    ‘Yes, the very battle between good and evil, played out even in the lowliest of lives like yours. Witches killing dogs because they did not get their favourite drink.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: adventure, curses, enchanting, fiction, intrigue, magic, magical, magical-realm, unpredictable, ya-litterature
    441 likes

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  • #4
    Steven Decker
    “Around two or three times a year, we would notice the wind blowing harder than usual, which meant a giant wave was coming.”
    ― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time
    tags: action, drama, dystopian, fiction, general, mystery, past, plot-turns, science, twists
    52 likes

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  • #5
    William Kely McClung
    “Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful.”
    ― William Kely McClung, Black Fire
    tags: action, dark, drama, enemies, espionage, fight, literary-fiction, mystery, survival, tense
    259 likes

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  • #6
    Barry Kirwan
    “He glanced at Sally. She sat on the edge, her feet dangling over the two-hundred-foot drop, just like he’d done all those years ago, secretly hoping his parents would tell him to come back, that it was dangerous. They never even got out of the car.”
    ― Barry Kirwan, When the children come
    tags: action, scared, thriller
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  • #7
    Michael G. Kramer
    “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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  • #8
    Susan Rowland
    “But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, murder, psychological, suspense, thriller
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  • #9
    Shirley Jackson
    “What a silly routine, Natalie thought, not realizing, sitting there alone on the stool in the center of the ring of girls, how she was jeopardizing her own future in college, her own future for four years and perhaps for the rest of her life; how even worse than the actual being a bad sport was the state of mind which led her into defiance of this norm, this ring of placid, masked girls, with their calm futures ahead and their regular pasts proven beyond a doubt; how one person stepping however aside from their meaningless, echoing standards, set perhaps by a violent movement before their recollection, and handed down to them by other placid creatures, might lose a seat among them by questions, by rebellion, by anything except a cheerful smile and a resolution to hurt other people.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman
    tags: future, rebellion, routine
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  • #10
    Chuck Dixon
    “Do you think I like sending out agents to do my dirty work? Do you think I get my thrills living vicariously? Do you think I don't know hurt? Do you think I don't know hurt? You don't know hurt, sister! I can't get off the mat to take down Lynx on my own-- but you can, and by God, you will--”
    ― Chuck Dixon, Black Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey 1
    tags: barbara-gordon, batgirl, birds-of-prey, black-canary, oracle
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  • #11
    Euripides
    “For it is the part of a wise man to practice restrained good temper.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
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  • #12
    Jostein Gaarder
    “يكمن سر الفعالية لدى سقراط في أنه لم يحاول تعليم الناس بل على العكس ، كان يعطي الانطباع بأنه يريدأن يتعلم من محدثه لم يكن يعمل كأستاذ رديء ...على العكس كان يناقش و يجادل .”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
    tags: أخلاق, عالم-صوفي, فكر, فلسفة, مجتمع
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  • #13
    Robert Musil
    “Das Unmoralische gewinnt sein himmlisches Recht als eine drastische Kritik des Moralischen!”
    ― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
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    John Bunyan
    “Ustedes no están aún fuera del objetivo del diablo; no han resistido hasta la sangre, luchando contra el pecado; tengan siempre el reino delante de ustedes, y crean firmemente con respecto a las cosas invisibles. No dejen que nada que hay a este lado del otro mundo les invada; y sobre todo, guarden bien su propio corazón, y los deseos que tiene, porque son engañosos más que todas las cosas, y desesperadamente malvados;”
    ― John Bunyan, El Progreso del Peregrino
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  • #15
    Max Nowaz
    “He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller
    283 likes

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  • #16
    K. Ritz
    “Mead.
    O sweet elixir,
    Ye bless the lips and steal the wits.
     ”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, dramatic, engaging, exciting, fantasy, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit
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  • #17
    Henry David Thoreau
    “If you want to be happy, be!”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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  • #18
    “In order to survive her tumultuous childhood, Mary created another Fat Mary, a companion and consoler, who took away her hurts, fears, and questions and kept them safe until Mary was older and mature enough to process the abuse and neglect she had endured.”
    ― Maria Nhambu
    tags: autobiography, child-abuse, childhood-trauma, inspirational, over-coming-odds, psychological, self-love, survival
    76 likes

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  • #19
    Nikolas Schreck
    “If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.”
    ― Nikolas Schreck
    tags: left-hand-path, magic, occult, paganism, sex-magick
    166 likes

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  • #20
    Francine Rivers
    “I learned a long time ago we’ve control of little in this world, Amanda. It doesn’t belong to us. It’s out of our hands. Like being born or being sold into prostitution at eight. All we can change is the way we think and the way we live.”
    ― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love
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  • #21
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “I'm eating' it quick... but I'll remember it a long time.”
    ― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
    tags: corn-pone, delicious, dinner, eat, food, hunger, hungry, supper
    12 likes



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