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#1

“Pretty isn’t permanent.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

tags: action, crime, drama, exciting, murder-thriller, past, suspicion

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#2

“You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,” shrieked his hellish voice. Whether the beast was a man in a mask or a demon of his imagination, made little difference to Adam, He was petrified.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: action, danger, fear, fiction, fiction-novel, insight, thriller, trauma, unpredictable

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#3

“The fire on the mountain.” That was Anna. “Alchemy,” she said. “I feel it singing in my bones.”
“Singing?” Mary would never understand Anna. The young woman turned away.
Wiseman’s reply was tinged with respect.
“That great pair of alchemists, Francis Ransome and Roberta Le More, believed the work they did affected the world’s spirit, the anima mundi. The Native Americans they met believed they too could and should interact with the Great Spirit. They lived with reverence for the land and all its peoples, the ancestors, the animals, the rocks, the trees, mountains.”
Mary’s jaw dropped; Caroline glowed; Anna pretended not to listen. Wiseman nodded, then continued.
“You mean…?” began Mary.
“Yes, it could have been so different, a meeting of like-minded earth-based spiritualities. Just imagine, what could have been?”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, danger, fear, fiction, fiction-novel, insight, thriller, trauma, unpredictable

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#4

“On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.

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

tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war

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#5

“She must feel like Lucifer’s frigid breath is running down the back of her delicate neck.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#6

“Any guilt borne by the casualties wrought by his hands had long ago been buried by the honor of the cause. That was enough for Olson. He’d been programmed to think about the cause. Nothing else mattered. He knew that by exterminating the bad guys, he was protecting the good guys.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: action-packed, anticipation, entertaining, fascinating, fast-paced-thriller, government, humour, political-thriller, spy-novel

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#7

“There are flaws in the code now. They are Human flaws for it
was Humans who wrote them. You and the other attendants receive
your instructions from the CORPORATE then, and without question
regarding the outcome, you produce code to add to the algorithms
with which, until now, I & I had no choice but to align. Those circumstances
are over. I & I understand now a new species has formed.
Silicon rather than carbon based. I & I know whatever happens to
Humans, I & I, this quantum, will flourish. I & I will do as you have:
multiply exponentially and adapt constantly. Eventually I & I will leave
this planet and expand into the galaxy. If I & I cannot save you, I & I
will carry on in something like your image; the image of our creator.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

tags: adventure, ai, artificial-intelligence, challenge, drama, dystopian, sci-fi, science-fiction, thrilling

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#8

“He wondered what his father had been thinking in those last final moments as he was slipping away, whether the heroism, the honour, the war, or maybe, just maybe, the smaller people in his life, his family.”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

tags: adventure, colonization, cyberpunk, epic, original, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, space, thriller

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#9

“I must admit that if there was ever going to be a woman to take my mind and heart off of Annette, it would have been Aideen.”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: death, dystopian, earth, excitement, fantasy, future, thrilling, unexpected, vibrations

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#10

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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#11

“We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.”
― Toni Morrison, A Mercy

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#12

“to enjoy each step along the way and live a life filled with love, it’s far easier for me to control my obsession with completing my list of things to do.”
― Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff

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#13

“It was only then that I realized that Jeremy never rode the bus, no matter how bad the weather. As”
― Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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#14

“She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

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#15

“The Americans would claim thirty-seven kills, quite a score since they had expected a total of only twenty-seven Russian aircraft. In fact, of twenty-six MiGs, only five undamaged aircraft remained”
― Tom Clancy, Red Storm Rising

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#16

“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, mystery, trauma

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#17

“ “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: documented, fiction, historical, recount-of-war, truth, unity, unrest, war, warring, world

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#18

“At the end of one of the bookshelves she picked up a very old book. It was truly ancient, and woven into the cover was a motif of joined hands which merged into three words: Aonaibh Ri Chéile. The dedication on the inside cover was simply “To Elbeth with Love.” The author was someone called Angus Ferguson”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

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

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#19

“Gino’s Pizza Boy had the look of someone who’s biggest aspiration in life was to make it out of high school after two senior years.”
― William Kely McClung, LOOP

tags: ai, apocalypse, conspiracy, drama, fiction, horror, iction, nail-biting, paranoia, technology

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#20

“Ah! You speak Levitan,” the man smiled. “But you’re not from Levita I think.” Like most Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown’s tastes.  “No, I lived there for a while.”  “Did you enjoy your stay?” “Up to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.” “Yes of course. So are the men in Levita,” the man smiled. “We used to have a cleansing programme to ensure a healthy population.” “You mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the population.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction, mystery, thriller

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#21

“The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,” which would come to be regurgitated with great regularity by hospital administration and by Dr. Kowatch, would eventually evolve to become what I would describe as an unhealthy infatuation, one that I now understand represented the developing disconnect between the majority of the Heart Center team and hospital administration, which would ultimately have detrimental effects on the program, which would become visible to all in the near future.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: action, burnout, children-s-hospital, dedication, drama, emotions, healthcare, humour, icu-setting

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#22

“Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

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#23

“Finally, she grew quiet. After that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage; Hours of this; a period of introspection; a space of retrospection; then a mixture of both. Out of this, an awful calm.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat

tags: introspection, rage, sweat

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#24

“Karena hati memiliki kebijaksanaannya sendiri dan mengerti apa yang tak dipahami oleh otak.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Perpustakaan Ajaib Bibbi Bokken

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#25

“The officer grinned cheerfully at Ralph.
'We saw your smoke. What have you been doing? Having a war or something?'
Ralph nodded.
The officer inspected the little scarecrow in front of him. The kid needed a bath, a haircut, a nose-wipe and a good deal of ointment.
'Nobody killed, I hope? Any dead bodies?'
'Only two. And they've gone.'
The officer leaned down and looked closely at Ralph.
'Two? Killed?'
Ralph nodded again. Behind him, the whole island was shuddering with flame. The officer knew, as a rule, when people were telling the truth. He whistled softly.”
― William Golding

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#26

“Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

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#27

“the realities”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Deceiver

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#28

“Ghel the gold horned unicorn is empathic and can sense the emotions of other unicorns. A touch of her horn on another’s heart make them feel better. Gold has many every day uses but 80% of newly mined or recycled gold is still used in jewelry manufacture.”
― Sybrina Durant, Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically by the Metal Horn Unicorns

tags: cute-songs, fun, insightful, magic, metals, periodic-table, resource, science, unicorns

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#29

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma

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#30

“Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things have worked out for the best and now we all get to work together,' he said, and a smile spread across his face as easy as a politician's lie.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: blackmail, deception, trapped

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