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#1

“Hi, Anya. Can I join you?"
Anya looked up from her meal with a dour expression. "I'm not a blond."
An obvious statement, it made no sense without a context. She added, "I'm not a twig."
"You're not a twig, that's also true." He gave her a smile, curious where this was going.”
― Dennis K. Hausker, Anya

tags: drama, exciting, fiction, intrigue, love-story, modern-romance, self-discovery

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#2

“What does regression do? It finds a prediction based on the average of what has occurred in the past. For instance, if all you have to go on to determine whether it is going to rain tomorrow is what happened each day last week, your best guess might be an average. If it rained on two of the last seven days, you might predict that the probability of rain tomorrow is around two in seven, or 29 percent. Much of what we know about prediction has been making our calculations of the average better by building models that can take in more data about the context.”
― Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

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#3

“I know some in the family disagree with my views, but my views are who I am, what I am. You have never told me to change them; you are not guilty of that crime. I, on the other hand, am at fault for shutting you out of my life because I did not accept that you too have your views, which make you different from me, but nonetheless still family, still loved.”
― Jana Petken, The Guardian of Secrets

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#4

“It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: wrong

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#5

“The blame of course belonged to Clyde, who just was not much given to talk. Also, he seemed very little curious himself: Grady, alarmed sometimes by the meagerness of his inquiries and the indifference this might suggest, supplied him liberally with personal information; which isn't to say she always told the truth, how many people in love do? or can? but at least she permitted him enough truth to account more or less accurately for all the life she had lived away from him. It was her feeling, however, that he would as soon not hear her confessions: he seemed to want her to be as elusive, as secretive as he was himself.”
― Truman Capote, Summer Crossing

tags: love, relationships, romance, truth

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#6

“Flammable. An oddity, chiefly useful in saving lives. The common word meaning "combustible" is inflammable. But some people are thrown off by the in- and think inflammable means "not combustible." For this reason, trucks carrying gasoline or explosives are now marked FLAMMABLE. Unless you are operating such a truck and hence are concerned with the safety of children and illiterates, use inflammable.”
― E.B. White, The Elements of Style

tags: flammable, grammar, writing

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#7

“L'enfer, c'est les autres.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches

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#8

“Infantile love follows the principle ‘I love because I am loved.’ “Mature love follows the principle ‘I am loved because I love.’ “Immature love says ‘I love you because I need you.’ “Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.”
― Judith Viorst, Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow

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#9

“Helen slowly became aware of an unnerving red light. She lifted her head and looked around. The glow bounced off the cold stone walls and intensified quickly. It filled her with thoughts of despair and hopelessness. She tried to shake them off.
You have what’s mine! Where is it? I want it!
Helen shuddered violently. She recalled the inner voice that urged
her to use the stone to keep Prince Harnak from dying. That voice was
comforting and encouraging. This voice was oppressive and angry and
beat on her relentlessly.
“No!” she muttered. “Go away. I have nothing for you or anyone
else, not even me.”
The red light flickered out. Only the numbing cold and her utter
isolation, cheerless companions, remained.”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

tags: adventure-fiction, curses, demonic-foe, destiny-and-choice, fate-vs-free-will, father-daughter-relationship, hidden-threats, hope, religious-power, spiritual-warfare

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#10

“Recognize there’s always value in taking the shot as you’re learning and building muscle memory. There is no such thing as perfect.”
― Chitra D. Nawbatt, The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success

tags: ambition, career-growth, courage, growth-mindset, resilience, self-improvement, taking-chances

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#11

“I guess it’s too much to ask for you to understand what I’m going through, Matt. What part of my daughter killing our son don’t you get?”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

tags: blame, challenges, fiction, guilt, insight, mystery, novel, suspense, thriller, tradgedy

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#12

“But the outcome was inevitable: she assumed you would not take no for an answer; she could already see your charming smile morph into the grimace of a rabid dog. To”
― Isham Cook, Lust and Philosophy

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#13

“Your reputation is your most valuable possession and has been said it takes a lifetime to acquire a reputation but only a moment to lose it.”
― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life

tags: career-advice, law-students, leadership, legal-profession, professional-ethics, reputation, trust

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#14

“We have magic you do not dream of.” That was Janet, although Mary could not see the diminutive witch.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: fantasy-quote, magic-and-myth, paranormal-mystery, series-starter, spooky-season-reads, urban-fantasy, witchy-reads

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#15

“The music felt like a special gift from Ted, a view into his soul.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

tags: book-club-reads, emotional-reads, family-saga, first-love, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, music-in-fiction

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#16

“Be tough as a wolf lest wolves eat you.”
― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

tags: combat, cross-border, ex-soldier, hero, high-adrenaline, layered-plot, nerve-jangling, political-tension, shadowy-past, truth-seeker

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#17

“Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: editing, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing

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#18

“How can I preach Dissolution?" he said. "How can I not believe in the gods when I have seen them for myself?"
"That's a question you certainly should be asking," Chrestomanci croaked. "Go down to Theare and ask it." Thasper nodded and turned to go. Chrestomanci leaned towards him and said from behind his handkerchief, "Ask yourself this too: Can the gods catch flu? I think I may have given it to all of them. Find out and let me know, there's a good chap.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Mixed Magics: Four Tales of Chrestomanci

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#19

“You know that eye-to-eye recognition, when two people look deeply into each other's pupils, and burrow to the soul? It usually comes before love. I mean the clear, deep, milk-eyed recognition expressed by the poet Donne. Their eyebeams twisted and did thread their eyes upon a double string. My father recognized that the Professor was a Troll, and the Professor recognized my father's recognition. Both of them knew that the Professor had eaten his wife. - The Troll”
― T.H. White

tags: love, trolls

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#20

“A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit. Another was a passion for secrets...”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

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#21

“I like it better here where I can sit just quietly and smell the flowers.”
― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

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#22

“Ferret took out a folded scrap of paper and passed it to him.
'My guy Ben doesn't know where the other club is, but the girls are being shipped in from here, a rehab centre in Newtonville.'
'What's this other place called?' Tazeem asked as he slipped the scrap of paper into his pocket.
'The place is just known as The Club. But the behind-the-scenes bit that only the real big spenders get to see, there's no official name, 'cause officially it doesn't exist, that's know as The Zombie Room.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: dangerous-liaisons, impending-doom

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