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#1

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

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#2

“At what point does faith become insanity?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, magic, mystery, past, wit

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#3

“Well, it’s like this, Edward. There is a cosmic certainty to things. An order. There are places, like Earth, where time passes. People live, then die. And there are places like this, outside of time, where existence goes on forever.”
― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live

tags: bitter, business-empire, captivating, classic, defies, greater-purpose, heartbreaking, life-and-death, rejection, self-discovery

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#4

“When oppressed and lost people see your supernatural life shining so bright, they are attracted! They are attracted to the Jesus in you.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

tags: attraction, faith, god, good-and-evil, hope, inner-peace, jesus, love, self-growth, shining

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#5

“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

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#6

“My grandmother said, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you had to go, where you got the ring, or where you played the Super Bowl, all that matters is that you put in the work, you deserved it, and you earned it.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

tags: community-building, death, drama, eccentricities, fiction, friends, friendship, fun, humour, life

287 likes

#7

“Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

tags: love

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#8

“I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.”
― Margaret Wise Brown

tags: children, children-s-literature

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#9

“Be the person you really are and not the person you'e allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Nikki.
From 'Life Song”
― Christine M. Knight

tags: australian-story, from-2nd-novel-under-development, identity

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#10

“Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.”
― Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library

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#11

“Into each life some rain must fall, Somedays must be dark and sad and dreary.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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#12

“The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!”
― Carson McCullers

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#13

“I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, noir-mystery, nvestigation, thriller

477 likes

#14

“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!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: band-of-brothers, guns, love, loyalty, military-budget, pilots-family, politics, poverty

165 likes

#15

“A single decision can collide and cascade until an uncontrollable avalanche sweeps over the world in profound ways. A convergence.”
― Guy Morris, The Image: A Quantum Portal Has Opened

tags: action, butterflyeffect, convergence, fiction-novel, globalstakes, highconcept, pointofnoreturn, systemsthinking, technothriller

11 likes

#16

“Like a gloomy and sinister paradox since its apparition until now, socialism suffered terrible and terrifying metamorphoses. With the name of the most human doctrine—Socialism—the most ominous and naughty crimes against humanity were done. The National Socialism of Hitler created Auschwitz and Majdanek and the People’s socialism of Stalin — Gulag and Kolima! And both of them buried more than fifty million people! That’s monstrous!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: lower-class, monopoly, non-fiction, planned-capitalism, political-principles, social-equality, socialism, sovereignty, upper-class, ussr

216 likes

#17

“Crete, May 1941. It was nearly five o’clock when the three soldiers reached the end of the olive grove. The dust-filled air shimmered in the late-afternoon heat. Their bodies ached, their uniforms were caked with dirt and sweat and they were hungry, thirsty and exhausted. The sensible thing now would be to lay up where they were for a few hours’ rest, then finish the journey under cover of darkness. But there was a tight deadline to meet. The evacuation vessel was scheduled to leave at midnight and they had been warned the captain wouldn’t wait for stragglers.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

tags: documented, indochina-war, insightful, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

219 likes

#18

“The woods took over—dark and patient, always damp, always watching.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: Killer

tags: atmospheric, determination, moodyreads, mystery, natureascharacter, psychologicalthriller, rainydayreads-pnw, target, thriller

31 likes

#19

“The Green Judges, most of them decidedly miffed, grumbled out one by one, though I got a wink and a thumbsup from Washington.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

tags: literarysatire, magicalrealism, memorable, mythicmodernity, weirdlit, wryhumor

204 likes

#20

“I implore you. Take the train appearing in the distance: this train might be the last.”
― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

tags: drama, exciting, gunpowder, imagination, intrigue, literary-fiction, love, mysterious, orphan

89 likes

#21

“Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy”
― Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

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#22

“A man who has blown all his options can’t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can’t afford to admit — no matter how often he’s reminded of it — that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley…”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels

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#23

“We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as I can. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

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#24

“the old man threw his spear With feeble impact; blocked by the ringing bronze, It hung there harmless from the jutting boss. Then Pyrrhus answered: 'You'll report the news To Pelides, my father; don't forget My sad behavior, the degeneracy Of Neoptolemus. Now die.' With this, To the altar step itself he dragged him trembling, Slipping in the pooled blood of his son, And took him by the hair with his left hand. The sword flashed in his right; up to the hilt He thrust it in his body. That was the end Of Priam's age, the doom that took him off, With Troy in flames before his eyes, his towers Headlong fallen—he that in other days Had ruled in pride so many lands and peoples, The power of Asia. On the distant shore. The vast trunk headless lies without a name." 2.702”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

tags: aeneid

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#25

“Imagination, like reality, has its limits.”
― Tim O'Brien, Going After Cacciato

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