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    Max Nowaz
    “It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the last few days for Adam. His only worry before finding the book had been how to keep his girlfriend Linda without marrying her in the process. A contest he had lost.”
    ― 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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    Susan Rowland
    “   In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, fictional, horror, thriller
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    Gary Chapman
    “You can simply remember that behavioral expressions of love can be divided into physical touch, quality time, gifts, acts of service, and words of affirmation.”
    ― Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages of Children
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    Richard Adams
    “Bigwig, as he had predicted, was getting his head bitten off.”
    ― Richard Adams, Watership Down
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    Robert Graves
    “But we are gifted, even in November
    Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense
    Of her nakedly worn magnificence
    We forget cruelty and past betrayal,
    Careless of where the next bright bolt may fall.”
    ― Robert Graves, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
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  • #6
    Allen Ginsberg
    “We the People - shelling the Vietcong”
    ― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
    tags: kansas-city-to-saint-louis
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  • #7
    Karl Marx
    “Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.”
    ― Karl Marx
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    William S. Burroughs
    “A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside
    tags: cats
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    Sara Pascoe
    “Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: children-s, fantasy, occult, paranormal, supernatural, teenagers, urban, ya-paranormal, young-adult
    416 likes

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    Robert Reid
    “Raimund was terrified. He might be a thief, but he was not a murderer. Blindly he ran from the house, and he kept on running until the sounds behind him died away.”
    ― Robert Reid, The Emperor
    tags: action, adventure, cruel, fiction, history, military, power, trilogy, war, wealth
    54 likes

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  • #11
    “Various large trees— willowy peppers and especially the pines—seem to be reaching down to hold your hand.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: descriptive, fiction, humour, insightful, realistic, refreshing, relateable, soul-healing, spiritual, thought-provoking
    476 likes

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    Steven Decker
    “I’d heard the expression about living in glass houses, but I never expected to actually be doing that.”
    ― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind
    tags: action, adventure, drama, fiction, literary-fiction, metaphysical, sci-fi, science, travel
    62 likes

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    Shafter Bailey
    “The weather was as ready as the school and campus. The sky was cloudless and the temperature was expected to top out at 76 degrees. Early morning mowers had sugared the air with the fragrance of freshly mowed grass.”
    ― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings
    tags: divine-miracles, extraordinary-leadership, fighting-adversity, heartwarming-tale, human-redemption, redemptive-journey, societal-issues-resolved, speaking-truth, transformative-journey, voice-of-truth
    60 likes

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    J. Rose Black
    “I can’t do more than this. Don’t ask me. If you ask, I’ll try and I’ll fail. You’ll end up hating me. And I’d rather die . . . than have you hate me. Or disappoint you. My own darkness, it still chips away at me.”
    ― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath
    tags: drama, fiction, fun, laugh-out-loud, literary-fiction, love, romance-novel, satire-fiction, suspense
    167 likes

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  • #15
    “This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: christmas, festive, humbug, humour, writers-life
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  • #16
    “If you want to be great, you have to be a leader. You’ve got to listen to me, son. That’s what we brought you here to do, to be a leader. And you can do it.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: biography, experiences, healing, journey, life, life-journey, self-discovery, teaching, time, travel
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    Dawn Chalker
    “What is she looking for?  She thought she had found it with Kyle.  But maybe she hadn’t. Perhaps she was looking for stability, security, sameness because her growing-up years had seemed so fragmented, and she often felt unsure of how she fit in.  Maybe stability isn’t all she is looking for.”
    ― Dawn Chalker, Lost and Found
    tags: drama, love, love-story, page-turner, pain, searching, security, stability, struggles, values
    124 likes

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    Jerry Spinelli
    “You" - he pointed at me - "are the black pearl.”
    ― Jerry Spinelli, Milkweed
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    A.A. Milne
    “Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: book-character, humor, kids-books
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    Lemony Snicket
    “All these things are miracles. It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal
    tags: inspirational
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    John Ajvide Lindqvist
    “Han reste sig, lämnade toaletten. Lät blodfläcken på golvet vara. Låt någon se den, låt någon undra. Tro att någon blivit dödad här, eftersom någon hade blivit dödad här. För hundrade gången i ordningen.”
    ― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In
    tags: horror
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  • #22
    Angie Thomas
    “Something to live for, something to die for.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    58 likes



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