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#1

“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

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#2

“The Profumo Affair in 1963 profoundly altered British society. It gave lie to the belief that those born into the ruling class were inherently superior and destined to lead.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

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#3

“Pericles let a moment pass, then another. The Spartans needed time to set in balance the risks of accepting the offer and the joys of being rich. Not as much time as he’d expected, though.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, drama, exciting, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, past, politics, present

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#4

“You’re convinced our own government conspired with Roland Barrington III to assassinate an American citizen for the sole purpose of disrupting a lawsuit filed against his company, Barrington Arms?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal High

tags: bullying, courtroom-drama, crime-fiction, dramatic, emotional, gun-control, psychological, school-shooting, second-amendment

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#5

“He had always been so careful, never revealed his true identity. But somehow, they’d fingered him, and his life had changed forever—for the worst. He couldn’t help but think that someone in the Central Intelligence Agency had turned on him. One of his own.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: determination, fast-moving, history, intrigue, legal-thriller, political, spy, suspense, terror, terrorism

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#6

“Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
― 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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#7

“Discrediting WE Charity may have been the short-term goal of some politicians and journalists, but the long-term consequences will be a devasting loss for our children and those in the developing world. That is a tragedy.”
― Tawfiq S. Rangwala, What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity

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#8

“The war is over. Black people got rights now, just like us white folk. Besides…” he tapped his chest. “It’s what in here that counts.”
― Donald Montano, Drink Deep from the Well of Good Intentions

tags: i-don-t-want-to-go-there-again

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#9

“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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#10

“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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#11

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: connection, evolution, humanity, humility, life, love, meaning, people, purpose, vastness

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#12

“A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: philosophy

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#13

“What!You know German?”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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#14

“I might not have ever had the courage to write those stories without that experience, that training ground in how to look at one’s own life and see it as a story.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

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#15

“The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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#16

“You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise.”
[Anna] aimed her defiance at Mary.
“And you? What’s your reason to hate me?”
Caroline spoke quietly. “We nearly died — in the fire in those mountains and at the house when Ravi had a gun pointed at us.” Her eyes were full of tears. “The fire you set at The Old Hospital could have killed me as well as Janet and Agnes.”
Anna muttered into the syrupy dregs of her tea. “Fire, you’re firing me?”
Mary grimaced. There had been too much fire.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, detective, fiction, fiction-novel, murder, realistic, thriller

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#17

“Never Give Up!”
― Michael Parker

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#18

“Civilization as well as education takes a downward spiral when it ceases to ask "What is truth?" and concerns itself primarily with what is measurable.”
― Katherine Paterson, A Sense of Wonder: On Reading and Writing Books for Children

tags: education, educational-philosophy, philosophy

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#19

“Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

tags: anne, change, growing-up, island, marry

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#20

“shower.”
― Andrew Clements, Things Not Seen

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#21

“Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

tags: apophenia, connection, fact, fiction

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#22

“he's always been moody. Even when he was a baby he was like a cat. All snuggly one second and then the next, he'd be looking at you like he had no idea who you were.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

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#23

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity

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