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#1

“None of the other kids my age has to do all the grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, and bill paying. It’s just not fair that I have to be an adult when I’m still a kid.”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: book-club-pick, childhood, coming-of-age, emotional-truth, family, heartfelt-reads, historical-fiction, resilience

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#2

“I found it interesting when, after the program, both Mrs. Rath and Mrs. Walker mentioned how nice it was to see Ira attending school and community events again.”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: community, found-family, grandparent-bond, growth, healing, heartwarming, quiet-transformation, small-town-life

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#3

“the next obvious question that lay lurking like a black storm cloud over my head: If I wasn’t to live with the Jeongs, then where would I go? And with whom?”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: belonging, coming-of-age, emotional-reads, found-family, historical-fiction, hope-and-fear, thought-provoking, uncertainty

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#4

“There is no kindness in showing people a door they cannot open.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: cosmic-mystery, curiosity, forbidden-knowledge, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi-adventure, space, space-opera

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#5

“Some people just don’t appreciate it when you save their planet.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: sci-fi, sci-fi-humor, science, science-fiction, space, space-opera

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#6

“A world that was struggling was not the same as a world that was unsalvageable.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: futures, hope, human-nature, human-nature-quotes, resilience, resilience-quotes, science-fiction

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#7

“People just need to be near other people when something has happened that is too large to process alone.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: community, emotions, empathy, empathy-quotes, human-connection, human-emotions, human-nature, quote-of-the-day, science-fiction

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#8

“If the goal is to build a life of meaning and not just motion (or worse, being 'sloppy busy'), then we need to regularly assess and recalibrate how we spend the currency of life—our time.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: life-purpose, life-quotes, meaningful-living, purpose-driven-life, purpose-of-life, quotes-about-life, quotes-to-live-by, work-life-balance

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#9

“The world will try to make you efficient at meaningless things—busy, polished, perfectly useless. Don't fall for it. Efficiency is only noble when it serves purpose.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: intentional-living, life-guide, life-purpose, meaningful-work, mindful-success, personal-development, productivity-mindset, purpose-over-busyness, purposeful-productivity, values-driven-life

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#10

“Sometimes, I think that we each inhabit alternative bubbles of reality.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: character-quotes, human-nature, literary-thriller, psychological-insight, thriller

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#11

“A feeling of kinship is forged through years of shared experiences, not by biological accident.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: archaeological-thriller, belonging-quote, character-driven, found-family, human-connection, reflective-reads, thriller, thrillers-mystery

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#12

“Some people are thrilled to have full control of their own lives. Others aren’t comfortable without an authority figure telling them what to do.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: conspiracy-thriller, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, freedom, freedom-of-choice, independent-thinking, mystery, personal-freedom, thriller-novels, thrillers-mystery

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#13

“Cung went to his section commander Corporal Binh Chien Bui and spoke to him. He said, “Binh, come quickly, something strange is going on!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: asia, documented, history-resource, leaders, political-dictatorship, research, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam

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#14

“After March in 1945, the Japanese felt threatened by possibility of the people of Indochina rising against them. Therefore, they stated:
“We of the Imperial Japanese Army have only invaded other Asian countries in order to remove the European and American white man from Asia! Stick with us Japanese and together we shall make Asians great while we kick the whites out of the entire region!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: documented, entertaining, factual, indochina-war, insightful, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

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#15

“Ngo Diem was heard to say, “I want a repressive machine controlling the whole of the country of South Vietnam from Saigon to the remotest villages. You shall apply massacres, torture, deportations, and mass imprisonment while conducting constant raids. You shall make the population so fearful of this government that no-one shall ever dare to become a revolutionary or any other kind of outlaw!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, strategy, tactical, vietnam, war-recount

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#16

“Ramona wore nothing but cherry-scented perfume. Stanley clad only in white cotton crew socks. What’s up with that? Maybe his feet were cold; she didn’t ask.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: action, adventure, drama, erotica, exciting, fear, fiction, mafia, relationships, romance

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#17

“Your reckless streak will be your best friend or your worst enemy.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: action, adventure, danger, heat, love, mafia, relationships, romance, underworld, violence

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#18

“Miranda's reward to herself, after a chief investigator dubbed her "the Eloise of four-year-old detectives," was to stretch her age. She’d now taken to informing people that she was four- and-a-half-and-three-quarters. She didn't seem to grasp the concept of almost-five.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, murder-mystery, mysterious, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller

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#19

“Well, now, Mistress No-English," Sarah spat out, "I don't suppose you've seen a new pair of silver shoes." She looked down at the svelte French woman's feet. "Just about your size, I'd judge.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: action, crime-novel, fiction, murder-thriller, organised-crime, political-thriller, sleuth, suspense-thriller, vigilante-justice, women-s-adventure

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#20

“Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern.”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: action, ancestry, discovery, family, family-history, future, history, literary-fiction, love, suspense

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#21

“Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

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

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#22

“The wind has blown sand over the footprints and the tears.”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers & Mick

tags: action, ancestry, drama, family, fiction, historical, learning, powerful, truths, war

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#23

“As an engineer and architect, it is my wish to keep on creating and building and never becoming involved in the destruction of places or things and most certainly never becoming involved in the killing of other people!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers & Mick

tags: find-oneself, friendships, learning, life-lessons, love, personal-identity, philosophy, teachings, truths, value

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#24

“Captain Scultetus said, “Sir, I am the commander of the Swakopmund Coast Guard. My name and rank are Captain Oskar Scultetus! I respectfully beg you not to open fire upon my city!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: australia, discovery, life-experiences, life-journey, living, love, nostalgia, self, soul, vietnam

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#25

“The belief that time heals most traumas is, I fear, not to be relied upon.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: literary-fiction, memory, psychological-fiction, quiet-reflection, regret, thought-provoking, trauma-and-healing

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#26

“I wish I had a canvas and could paint the serene colours of eternity from the harsh palette that is planet Earth.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: fiction, human-nature, literary-fiction, mortality, poetic, poetic-fiction, romantic

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#27

“His shyness was quickly mistaken for arrogant aloofness, and his schoolmates began to shun him which simply added to his shyness.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: character-study, human, human-nature, introverts, literary-fiction, shy, shyness, social-perception

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#28

“Being in love is so often depicted as a blissful condition in the comforting pages of fiction. It was not so for me.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: adult-fiction, emotional-conflict, literary-fiction, love, romantic, romantic-tragedy

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#29

“Pain doesn’t get easier. You just have to get stronger.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

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#30

“Find the light that makes your lantern shine," she used to say. "Hold on to it, even when the dark surrounds you. Not even the strongest wind will blow out the flame”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

tags: fantasy, inspirational

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