Lisbeth Kujat > Lisbeth's Quotes

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#1

“Raimund, we must promise each other that if one of us leaves Mora it must be both. We must leave together.” She was not sure what had made her ask for this promise, but she was growing more aware of her femininity. She loved Raimund as a brother, but something told her that her feelings for him were more than those of a sibling.
Raimund smiled and squeezed her hand. “Of course Aleana, I am after all your brother.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

tags: action, conquest, drama, greed, power, trilogy, truth, war, wealth, weapon

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#2

“The disturbing part is that no one teaches us how to deal with death at any point during our medical training, or even during our lifetime for that matter, particularly in a field such as mine where death was an inevitable certainty for some patients.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: balance, dedication, emotions, heartfelt, medical, medical-fiction, overworked, suffering, trauma, wellbeing

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#3

“He thrust his shoulders back and spoke in a whisper that sounded like the hiss of a snake.
‘Yes, the very battle between good and evil, played out even in the lowliest of lives like yours. Witches killing dogs because they did not get their favourite drink.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

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

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#4

“One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: action-packed, adventure, aliens, challenge, compelling, drama, fast-paced, science-fiction, struggles, thrilling

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#5

“Was the man a ghost, a figment of my imagination, or something else? I didn’t know, but it was a memory I’d carry with me my entire life, and eventually, I figured out that the man I saw on top of Scafell Pike that day was….”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: fiction, future, humanity, missions, past, realities, sci-fi, space, time, time-travel

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#6

“If you are a future donor recipient, remember: your family should be a part of your transformative journey. Both parties will experience growth as they find balance in your new life stage.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: heal, health, human-spirit, journey, pain, personal, suffering, thrive, transformational, trials

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#7

“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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#8

“I watched her undress with moonlight shivering across the room from behind sheer curtains that moved with the currents from the hearth 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

374 likes

#9

“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

tags: family, past

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#10

“- Нет никакой причины, чтобы бежать, Рудольф, и никакой - чтобы возвращаться. Все двери одинаковы. А за ними... - Ничего. Есть только двери. Всюду только двери, а за ними ничего нет.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Black Obelisk

tags: life

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#11

“We're selling vacuum cleaners.”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

tags: action, action-thriller, contemporary-fiction, crime, crime-thriller, fiction, mystery-thriller

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#12

“But why couldn't the little catâ€”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods

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#13

“..."She'll be a'ight." It's a prayer more than a prophecy.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

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#14

“If the onset of wrinkles in middle age were referred to as laughter lines, then to look at him, Scott thought, Twinkle's life must have been hilarious. He had sharp eyes that often seemed to visually contradict the lack of intelligence that could be derived from listening to him talk. There might not be a lot to respect in Twinkle, but Scott liked him. He just didn't want to end up like him.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: descriptive-prose, empathetic

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#15

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance

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#16

“Your Twin Flame forces you to face your inner demons, so you can free yourself from them.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Dumb Dumb's Handbook: To Twin Flame Relationships

tags: adventure, drama, excitement, exciting, fast-paced, fiction, full-on, gripping, intrigue, thrilling

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#17

“…. ‘George said he needed a break. And there was something about Jonathan taking over …’ ‘That’s exactly what I mean,’ said Maxwell, ‘It seems like there’s all kinds of goings on there now.’ ‘What did the agents say then?’ ‘Your brother … he must still have a key. I told them to check, I told them. I expect they overlooked it. Hugo’s been going in and there are some women there apparently, I mean at the Manor House, Jonathan’s up to his usual tricks taking in every Tom, Dick and Harry and giving all kinds of undesirables a home, and there’s something about them chasing Hugo and taunting him, yesterday the buyers were viewing again and measuring up for curtains and things, I said they could, and they saw something going on outside, some shouting and laughing …’ ‘Women! What women? Jonathan’s not like that …’ ‘Not like that huh! He’s flesh and blood like the rest of us.’ ‘That’s not what I meant. Please don’t be angry Max, it’s not my fault.’ ‘Jonathan this and Jonathan that. Why do people think he’s so bloody marvellous eh! What the hell does he think he’s doing. People spilling over into my garden and wrecking the peace and quiet. George was completely mad to do this …”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

tags: beyond-the-grave, demon, emotional, hell, intrigue, kindness, mystery, odd, tragedy, vatican

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#18

“The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feeling; otherwise, I might suffocate.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: anne-frank, diary, holcaust, journal

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#19

“I kept returning to this new and bizarre question: is there anything that actually is as it seems? Is anything perceptually straightforward? Maybe that’s inherently impossible, because impressions are, by their very nature, cumulative – the sum of all your interactions with and perceptions of things.”
― Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin

tags: impressions, interactions, life, nature, people, philosophy, society, thoughts, understanding

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#20

“I felt like one of those mythical heroes who fights his way back from the underworld only to realize that the world above is every bit as damned as the one below.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

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#21

“I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw. And if you complain even a little bit, if you try to get just one spin on the merry-go-round, the bullies beat the shit out of you.”
― Sherman Alexie, Flight

tags: bullies, class-divide, class-warfare, greed, poverty, poverty-wealth, rich-vs-poor, wealth

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#22

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: earnestness, gullibility, honesty

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