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    Dan Simmons
    “In the end, it doesn’t matter a damn bit. We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and then trying to make a minuet out of all that chaotic hurt. It doesn’t matter a damn bit. We’re no avatars, no sons of god or man. We’re only us, scribbling our conceits alone, reading alone, and dying alone. Goddamn it hurts.”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
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    Jon Scieszka
    “use the Lord’s name in vain!”
    ― Jon Scieszka, Funny Business
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    M.L. Stedman
    “That was the only thing that had got him through the four years of blood and madness: Know exactly where your gun is when you doze for ten minutes in your dugout; always check your gas mask; see that your men have understood their orders to the letter. You don't think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation" p. 33”
    ― M. L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
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    Virgil
    “Cui Pyrrhus:  'Referes ergo haec et nuntius ibis
    Pelidae genitori; illi mea tristia facta
    degeneremque Neoptolemum narrare memento.
    Nunc morere.”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid (Translated): Latin and English
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    “Decker smiled and shrugged off their laughter. The humour was only barbed if you sat on the outside, and now he was one of them.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: defiant, one-of-them
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    JoDee Neathery
    “Margo tilted her head toward her husband asking, “What is it about beach volleyball that captures your attention?”
    More than anything I’m amazed how they’re able to keep everything in the proper place when spiking the ball. Makes me want to invest in spandex . . . and of course, their fitness is enviable,” he said, his face broadening into a playful smile.”
    ― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush
    tags: drama, fiction, guilt, mystery, novel, redemption, sorrow, suffering
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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “Venice would not be who she is without her music lingering around every narrow calle and corner.”
    ― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
    tags: beautiful-writing, cultural-fiction, historical-fiction, italian-history, music, setting-as-character, venice
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    Joseph A. Anderson
    “There were times, while Atom slept and she was awake soothing her crying daughter, that a question itched from somewhere deep within. This "unsolved mystery" that Atom spoke of: It was all in the past, her mind insisted, as that's what her husband had promised. But she couldn't let it go, so eventually she had to ask. "Why did these ghost people emerge and then just vanish in your world?”
    ― Joseph A. Anderson, Return to Planet Earth
    tags: alien-dna, descent-into-darkness, existential-fiction, lokas, multiverse, psychological-sci-fi, quantum-theory, science-gone-wrong
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    Behcet Kaya
    “Boss? While I have the drone up, can I go further out and see what’s there?”
    “Yeah, sure. Go ahead.”
    I turned off the tablet and started packing up when Rudy yelled, “Boss! Boss!”
    “Why are you shouting? I’m right here. I can hear you, Rudy.”
    “Boss! You gotta see this!”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance
    tags: action, adventure, crime, dramatic, exciting, murder, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The Minister of Army answered, “Bob, I thought that you would have been an astute and clever enough a politician to think of this yourself, but seeing how you have asked me, I suggest that you wait until eight in the night on Thursday 29/April/1965 to announce that Australia will send the First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment to fight in South Vietnam. By you waiting until the evening of 29/April/1965 to announce this in Parliament, the labour opposition leader of Arthur Caldwell and his deputy leader of Gough Whitlam should be absent, as will be most of the entire parliament, because the following day is the beginning of a long week-
    end. You are legally not required to give advanced warning to the house, so you can easily get away with this!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, vietnam, war, war-recount
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    Isham Cook
    “It freed them up to do as they wish, not because it was forbidden but because the entire moral order was defunct and irrelevant.”
    ― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison
    tags: dark-humor, fiction, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, rebellion, social-outsiders, transgressive-fiction
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    Theasa Tuohy
    “I can't say." Miranda mimicked a very grown-up sound with her imperious tone. "I wasn't at the morgue. I was in school.”
    ― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth
    tags: 21st-century, absolution, autopsy, blood, crime, fast-paced, intrigue, noir-fiction, stalking, suspense-thriller
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    Maria Jane
    “I still love the person he is—loyal and kind—but we’re on different paths, and that is okay.”
    ― Maria Jane, Perfect
    tags: breakup-quotes, contemporary-romance, different-paths, emotional-clarity, letting-go-of-the-past, letting-go-quotes, romance, womens-fiction
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    “Your creator—whatever you call it in your own world—is not going to be upset with you for protecting your peace.”
    ― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child
    tags: boundaries, emotional-wellness, healing, healing-journey, inner-peace, self-protection, spiritual-healing, trauma, trauma-recovery
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    Marcia Breece
    “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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    Jonathan Swift
    “As learnèd commentators view
    In Homer more than Homer knew.”
    ― Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift's on Poetry: A Rapsody--A Critical Edition with a Historical Introduction and Commentary
    tags: irony
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    Francine Rivers
    “إني أعيش عيشة لا بأس بها-
    *كيف؟
    -لا أنظر إلى الوراء ولا أنظر إلى الأمام
    ماذا عن الآن يا آنجل؟
    -الآن غير موجود..”
    ― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love
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    Colleen McCullough
    “There is something terribly reassuring about being in politics to enrich oneself. It’s normal. It’s human. It’s forgivable. It’s understandable. The ones to watch are the ones who are in politics to change the world. They do the real damage, the power-men and the altruists. It isn’t healthy to think about other people ahead of oneself. Other people are not as deserving. Did I tell you I was a Skeptic?”
    ― Colleen McCullough, The First Man in Rome
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    Robert Graves
    “According to the Pelasgians, the goddess Athene was born besides Lake Tritonis in Libya, where she was found and nurtured by three nymphs of Libya, who dress in goat-skins.”
    ― Robert Graves, The Greek Myths 1
    tags: athena
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    Judith Viorst
    “It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.”
    ― Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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