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    Max Nowaz
    “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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    Yvonne Korshak
    “We had old architects and were working with what we had on hand. You’ve hired this new, young architect now, and, Pericles, I’m going to build you a statue of Athena—all gold and ivory, think of that, Pericles—and taller than our city walls.” Pericles raised his eyes toward the birds.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: ancient-greece, conflict, drama, educational, greek-gods, iction, insightful, love-story, romance, spartans
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  • #3
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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  • #4
    Rudyard Kipling
    “This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, Kim
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    Azar Nafisi
    “[A] novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.”
    ― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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  • #6
    Anita Diamant
    “If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. ”
    ― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent
    tags: inspirational
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  • #7
    Cecelia Ahern
    “The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our
    best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they’re the
    correct height, age, or have the right hair color”
    ― Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now
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  • #8
    Max Nowaz
    “I’m fucking asking you!” The man stood his ground.
    From the corner of his eye Adam could see the other man getting up from his chair. It was time to go. Adam head-butted the first man who was blocking his way, and then kneed him in the groin for good measure. As the man doubled up, Adam pushed past him.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
    tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller
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  • #9
    K. Ritz
    “This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, antasy, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery
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  • #10
    “God’s love language is obedience.”
    ― Kathryn Krick, The Secret of the Anointing: Accessing the Power of God to Walk in Miracles
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  • #11
    “Everyone is ready for the end of the day, ten-minute group meditation. The meditation is like the iciest beer you have ever
had after a hard day’s work.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: accomplishing, cult, descriptive, faith, god, love, meditate, meditating, pray, religous
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  • #12
    Susan Rowland
    “Mary dashed the rain from her eyes with a frozen hand. Was that a knife buried in the man’s chest with the blood seeping up around it? Doesn’t that mean he’s alive? Although with the blade at that angle, it can’t be for long. Colors swam in the water coating Mary’s vision. She rubbed her face, and with every shuttering breath, even before she could see his features, she knew her son, George, the son she had never met, was dead.”
    ― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds
    tags: action, adventure, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, investigation, mystery, thriller
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  • #13
    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “Joey was surprised that plants could be used to clean water. Then, he had a funny thought. He imagined a dandelion standing at a sink while it washed Water just like his parents when they washed the dishes. He started to laugh.”
    ― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water
    tags: creative-science, eco-awareness, exploring-emotions, family-learning, living-world, open-mindedness, sustainability, values-education, water-as-life, words-and-energy
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    Vincent Panettiere
    “Seeing the pictures every evening while finishing the New York Times and waiting for dinner was his joy. Francine was unaware of his pleasure.  He could not reveal these feelings to the children or Francine. Silly. A father loves his children but can’t speak of it for fear of being made trivial.”
    ― Vincent Panettiere, Shared Sorrows
    tags: drama, fiction, fiction-novel, guilt, love, mystery-novel, redemption, romance, sorrow, suffering
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    Fredrik Backman
    “People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
    tags: descriptive, love-quote
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  • #16
    T. Rafael Cimino
    “The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle.”
    ― T. Rafael Cimino, Split... Civility For A Divided Nation
    tags: democrats, political, politics, republicans
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    Charles Darwin
    “There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures. Each part assumes its proper dimensions: continents are not looked at in the light of islands, or islands considered as mere specks, which are, in truth, larger than many kingdoms of Europe. Africa, or North and South America, are well-sounding names, and easily pronounced; but it is not until having sailed for weeks along small portions of their shores, that one is thoroughly convinced what vast spaces on our immense world these names imply.”
    ― Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
    tags: maps, travel, worldview
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  • #18
    Italo Calvino
    “When the olfactory alphabet, which made them so many words in a precious lexicon, is forgotten, perfumes will be left speechless, inarticulate, illegible.”
    ― Italo Calvino, Under The Jaguar Sun
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: genius, imperfection, incompleteness, shudder, silence
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