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#1

“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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#2

“All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#3

“I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning,
How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,
And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,
And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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#4

“We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#5

“My thing is, girls usually date boys who are like their daddies, and I ain’t gon’ lie, when I saw that white—Chris,” he corrects, and I smile. “I got worried. Thought I turned you against black men or didn’t set a good example of a black man. I couldn’t handle that.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

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#6

“We are about to change history, said Saphira.
We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is.
Ah, but what a glorious flight!
(Eragon to Saphira)”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

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#7

“After a while Hem's and Haw's confidence grew into the arrogance of success. Soon they became so comfortable they didn't even notice what was happening.”
― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?

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#8

“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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#9

“Where’s my uncle?” she asked.
“I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place before I bought it, then he’s pushing up daisies.”
“But it can’t be, he’s still young.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fiction, intrigue, magic, mystery, survival, thriller, urban-fantasy, witches

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#10

“Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing quite out if his life”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#11

“Not enough,” Annie said. “The press is crawling down my throat for this. And up my ass. Both directions, Venkat! They’re gonna meet in the middle!”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

tags: press

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#12

“You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.”
― Robert Frost

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#13

“My brain is sending poison to my heart.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

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#14

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: crying, shame, sorrow, tears

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#15

“What makes Argia different from other cities is that it has earth instead of air. The streets are completely filled with dirt, clay packs the rooms to the ceiling, on every stair another stairway is set in negative, over the roofs of the houses hang layers of rocky terrain like skies with clouds. We do not know if the inhabitants can move about the city, widening the worm tunnels and the crevices where roots twist: the dampness destroys people’s bodies and they have scant strength; everyone is better off remaining still, prone; anyway, it is dark.
From up here, nothing of Argia can be seen; some say, “It’s down below there,” and we can only believe them. The place is deserted. At night, putting your ear to the ground, you can sometimes hear a door slam.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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#16

“Beware he whose reputation is burnished bright, oft times the darkness is hidden by the polished light.”
― Robert Reid, The Empress:

tags: betrayal, destruction, discovery, drama, family-feud, hardship, historical-fiction, politics, truth, unknown

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#17

“Survival is not a skill as much as an instinct… sometimes a foolish action no one would dare to take.”
― Guy Morris, The Image: A Quantum Portal Has Opened

tags: adrenaline, chasesequence, doordie, gutinstinct, highstakes, risk, survivalinstinct, suspense, thrillervibes

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#18

“Worldly distractions numb our ability to see things happening in the supernatural realm.”
― H. Meadow Hopewell, Rage Against the Machine

tags: adventure, ai, ancient, dramatic, espionage, fast-paced, historical, plot-driven, technological, thriller

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#19

“… the primitive comprehension that the state property represents a social one, their identification, and their equalization could not resist the criticism of the time. The state property is not socialism. The state-monopoly property, as it was on the both sides of the Berlin Wall and which continues to be such one even after it dropped down, is not social property. There was never and nowhere any socialism! In the twentieth century, we passed through a system of utopian socialism as proof that this was not socialism that was not possible, but the utopia of the writers before Marx and after Marx. We were visited by a utopian socialism, which at the contemporary stage is simply capitalism—state, monopolistic.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: civil-society, democratic, freedom, justice, liberty, monopolistic, myth, oppression, society, totalitarian-system

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#20

“Her lips silently formed three words, oh my love.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: ancestry, courage, engrossing, history, hope, king, knight, save-the-world, stabbed, sword-fighting

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#21

“Maeve glanced around at the tables and watched the couples sitting close to each other laughing, holding hands, or staring into each other’s eyes. She felt that familiar ache thinking of Evan, missing him, and the emptiness it caused at times like this when she was alone.”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

tags: americans, challenges, fighting, freedom, patriotic, rationing, resources, soldier, treachery, wwii

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#22

“Scott's mind was racing, struggling to comprehend the events unfolding around him. They were talking about disposing of Twinkle like he was a rusty old bike that no-one rode anymore.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

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#23

“The bank gods paid a visit after sunset, towering and stiff, ponderously regal and quasiparental in the gray twilight.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

tags: adultfiction, afterhours, darkhumor, financialfiction, magicalrealism, mythicmodernity, strangelit

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#24

“My Lady, turn away; do not look into the wagon, it is too frightening for a lady to view.”
― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

tags: book-1, drama, fantasy, fiction, historical, history, intrigue, mystery, trilogy

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#25

“Wealth is a person’s ability to survive so many number of days forward — or, if I stopped working today, how long could I survive?”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad

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#26

“Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems

tags: burroughs, heroin, ignu, junk, junky

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#27

“There was part of me listening that didn't think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

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#28

“He had perhaps been bruised too often. The peace of the vast aloof scrub had drawn him with the beneficence of its silence. Something in him was raw and tender. The touch of men was hurtful upon it, but the touch of pines was healing.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

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#29

“As he looked out and saw the grey landscape through the gently falling snow, he could not help thinking how much better it would be if people could go to sleep like the fields; could be blanketed down under the snow, to wake with their hurts healed and their defeats forgotten.”
― Willa Cather, One of Ours

tags: sleep, snow, winter

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#30

“There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: (1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction; (2) cowardice, which leads to capture; (3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; (4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame; (5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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