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#1

“¡Don’t tell me what to think, niña malcriada! And, you—” Don Gabriel pointed at Marco, “Stop filling my daughter’s head with nonsense.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: alienation, ambition, anti-imperialism, elite-society, freedom, historical-drama, identity-crisis, revolution, richly-detailed, tropical-settings

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#2

“Scott could feel the contents of his stomach flip over and over on themselves. He turned to the side and retched, frothy yellow bile spilled out onto the newspaper covered floor, filling the room with the putrid stench of previously ingested alcohol.

'Look's like someone can't hold their drink,' McBlane said, and Dominic and Shugg laughed.

Scott was still staring at the steam rising from his evacuated stomach contents as he heard the hammer fall. The dull crack of bone splintering under its weight.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: murder, prose, visual-moments

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#3

“The Black Prince is entombed at Canterbury Cathedral. His effigy reads: “Such as thou art, sometimes was I, Such as I am, such thou shalt be, I thought little on hour of death, So long as I enjoyed breath, On earth I had great riches, Land, houses, great treasure, Horses money and gold, But now a wretched captive am I, Deep in the ground, lo I lie, My beauty great, is all quite gone, My flesh is wasted to the bone.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

tags: biographical, british-history, documentary, drama, fictional-drama, historical, isabella, king-edward-ii, research, royalty

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#4

“The steps leading to the porch looked worn, cracked, and unpainted, ready for a nice hot fire.”
― 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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#5

“Smile if you want to. Grimace if you’re told to.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: crossroads, explore, gratitude, journey, learn, life, opportunity, respect, satisfaction, take-risks

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#6

“Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens”
― Shannon Hale, Midnight in Austenland

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#7

“I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness. I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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#8

“My heart died. Arty would despise her. But Mama told me to go on hoping. "Go ahead and love her," Mama said. I've wondered since whether those were Mama's last words, the final sizzle of her synapses.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

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#9

“A few years ago—you must have been a child at the time, so you may not remember it—many young people of this country had the same impression. They made an ingenuous and disorganized effort to escape from captivity but ultimately failed, because they were unable to find the bars of the cage. If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

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#10

“shvartze”
― Leon Uris, Mitla Pass

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#11

“I had the feeling she could only be what she was to me at an actual distance.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

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#13

“Sometimes she thought Murphy’s Law applied to her and her alone.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Stage Fright

tags: danger, enchantment, fiction, literary-fiction, love, magical, mystical, romance

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#14

“Leo had just finished reading this when the FANY girl from the decoding department came in with a new message.
‘It’s bad news, I’m afraid.’
Leo read, ‘Stuart killed by a bomb on June 9th. Contact impossible. Air raids all day and walk all night.’
She put the paper down and bowed her head to her desk. It was not the news of Stuart’s death that struck cold terror into her heart. It was tragic, of course, but he had not come from SOE and she had not had time to get to know him well. It was the image that those words conjured up that was hard to bear. Alix was with these people. She was in danger from bombs all day. She was having to walk all night. Leo thought back to the girl she had said goodbye to in Paris back in the spring of 1939, excited by the prospect of starting her course at the Sorbonne. Rumours of war had seemed so distant that neither of them had doubted that they would meet again in a few months.”
― Holly Green, A Call to Home

tags: determination, fiction, intrigue, legacy, passion, political-drama, romance, unpredictable

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#15

“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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#17

“If I read this right, Gunther had not come to offer me congratulations. I will not give him the satisfaction of thinking me scared or insecure. I will fake calm, confident, and regal.”  ”
― Tricia Copeland, To Be a Fae Queen

tags: adventure, curses, enchanting, fiction, intrigue, litterature, magic, magical, magical-realm, unpredictable

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#18

“A long walk. A very long walk. Sand between my toes. The rough surf at times reaching and washing away my footprints. About a mile down the beach, I sat down and started thinking back through everything Vance had told me so far. Thought about what my next moves would be. Seeing the Asian guy tomorrow and having him snoop would settle one thing in my mind. Did Vance do it or not? Crucial. Until I knew that, I didn’t want to go any further.”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

tags: fiction-writing, murder-mystery, noir-fiction, noir-mystery

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#19

“If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery

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#20

“Dreams that last hold secrets from the past.
Out of reach. Impossible to breach.
Fragile to clutch. Fleeting to touch.
Like stars and snowflakes and visions all aglow.
Time is endless in our youth. Our dreams are rustproof.
Our time to chase is aloof.
From the horizon of hope comes the challenge to dare.
Our time to dream has changed in midair.
Dreams that last hold secrets from the past—
uniquely ours to share if we so care.
Starla Jordan's therapy - writing song lyrics or poetry.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

tags: creative-people, poetry, song-lyrics, therapy, writing

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#21

“ She'd been freed from weakness by summoning the courage and strength to live and to love. She felt the thrill of freedom, freedom to do as she wished and as she was driven.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

tags: historicalfiction, hopefulfiction, loveaftertrauma, readerswhofeeldeeply, resilience, secondchances, traumaandhealing

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#22

“Music Is the Language of Emotions”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: art-and-soul, creative-life, emotional-truth, human-experience, music-lovers, philosophical-fiction, reading-mood

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#23

“The Ganeva conference on Indochina agreements stated that the south of Vietnam would be handed over to a provisional administration after two years at the most and that general elections would be held in 1956 at the latest, giving Vietnam a single and united government. (due to American actions, the agreements were never put into place)”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: american-army, commandos, defence, freedom, french-army, liberation, nvasion, special-forces, strength, war

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#24

“I don't "lol". I tried it once but it just didn't agree with me.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: cynicism, humour, life, writers-life

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#25

“Still, in 1877, Engels wanted to protect us from false socialism. Still then, in Anti-Dühring, he wrote that not any nationalization is socialist, because in the contrary case both Bismarck and Napoleon would have to be arranged among the founders of socialism.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: east-europe, economic-theory, effective, equality, historical, private-property, scientific-socialism, speculation, totalitarian, unity

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#26

“Now I think people with the most to hide live behind the prettiest doors.”
― D.L. Maddox, Killer

tags: cynicaltruthsthrilling, dramatic, emotional, observantprose, plotdriven, psychologicalthriller, suburbannoir, suspenseful, trustissues

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#27

“Do not procrastinate reading the book, or you won’t have time to study it all before the exam.”
― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University

tags: college-advice, exam-prepstudy-motivation, no-procrastination, nonfiction, student-success, time-management

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#28

“I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
(moby dick chap 26 p112)”
― Herman Melville

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#29

“At bottom, it comes down to who and what we cannot bear to see—in our past, in our present, and in the future racing toward us. Performing and partitioning and projecting are the individual steps that make up the dance of avoidance.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World

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#30

“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien

tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing

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#31

“Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy: but the books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments. ”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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#32

“Love of the head has doubtless more intelligence than true love, but it only has moments of enthusiasm. It knows itself too well, it sits in judgement on itself incessantly; far from distracting thought, it is made by sheer force of thought.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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