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#1

“It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Ito finally, who had been keeping very quiet up to this point. “Indeed. How much will it cost?” asked Brown “About twenty million Interplanetary Credits,” said Demba. “A modest investment for a man of your means.” “Indeed,” said Brown again. That was all the money he had, which started to strike him as strange, when his thoughts were interrupted. “We’ll arrange a visit to the mine,” said Ito. “Show you the place itself.” “Indeed,” said Brown. Or had he said that? The strange waking memory he had fallen into started to become repetitive. Reality started to flow back in. Diamonds, thought Brown. All those diamonds in that mine.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: drama, fast-paced, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, suspense-thriller, thriller-novels

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#2

“I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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#3

“No busques valores absolutos en el mundo relativo de la naturaleza”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

tags: spirituality

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#4

“Hacía falta una fortaleza diferente para persuadir en vez de obligar. Talut se ganaba el respeto respetando a los demás.”
― Jean M. Auel, The Mammoth Hunters

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#5

“I did my best to fight and claw my way back to the life I once knew, but panic had taken over and colors were swirling and fading all around me. It was all turning into a great cloud of blackness, just like the one I had seen in my dream. The looming cloud of nothingness I had feared for so long was finally grabbing me, wiping my world dark and blank. The darkness was thick and intense, an inky void that stretched to eternity in every direction. Eventually my panic burnt itself out and I simply stayed there in the dark, feeling as if someone had drained my adrenal glands. I was no longer responding to the dark with fear, but acceptance. In fact, curiosity was beginning to take over.
The longer I let myself stare into it, the less dark it appeared. After some time, I realized that it was all different shades of murky black and foggy gray overlapping and undulating, just out of focus. I blinked mentally and suddenly she was there, standing above me with concern etched in sooty-colored lines on her monochromatic face.”
― Misty Mount, The Shadow Girl

tags: discovery, fantasy, friendship, introvert, invisible, isolated, lonely, mystery, teen-girl, young-adult

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#6

“Reading is solitude.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

tags: reading, solitude

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#7

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

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#8

“2. Alice Ereldon was in her late twenties, unmarried, and she had a reputation. She was an attractive twenty-eight-year-old. Her long brown hair hung down over her shoulders and she could conveniently sweep it over her face, partially hiding her dazzling amber eyes. The eyes were her secret weapon; she could look like a cat lining up its prey, and her prey was usually young male courtiers.”
― Robert Reid, The Empress

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fantasy

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#9

“Before she climbed into the car, I kindly let her know my back seats were very hard and very cold. Dead Eye Red responded, “Son, when I was your age, I would sit on a seat like this and smoke would appear!”
Somewhat surprised and tickled, I said, “Ma'am, no one will ever look under your car to see if it’s washed.” I really should have known better before I opened my big fat mouth. She said, “Son, no one is looking at my butt, but I wash it anyway!”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

tags: abuse, bullies, hope, manipulation, mental-illness, schizophrenic, struggle, true-story, truth, understanding

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#10

“Cindy Divine and her parents paused by their boat to take in the natural beauty. Lake Barkley could have been a top-paid model for a glossy postcard company that morning. It lay between little hills all dressed up in new green, and its mirror-like water reflected a cloudless sky everywhere except along the shoreline where the hills were upside down. Clusters of blossoms, dogwood and redbud, were scattered here and there on the hillsides, and a brightening red was coloring the sky along the eastern hilltops.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

tags: abuse, childhood, courage, courtroom-drama, guardian-angel, hope, inspirational, miracles, overcoming-trauma, resilience

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#11

“I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When did you get in?’ We mainly just talked to get familiar with each other.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

tags: grief, humour, imagination, literary-fiction, love, neighbours, rural-fiction, small-town, small-town-fiction

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#12

“Callan sucked in a breath. As a sniper, he’d been trained by the Marines to know and recognize moments.

Moments when all the training—his focused mind, muscle memory, weapon knowledge . . .

When all the preparation—target reconnaissance, angle of attack, position scouting . . .

When all the setup—hidden amid the terrain, barrel aimed, trajectory known . . .

When everything came together in one crucial moment—when the sniper squeezed the trigger and took his shot.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

tags: adult-romance, adversity, drama, love, ptsd, relationship, romance, steamy-romcom, suspense

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#13

“He’s a bad man, Mama, came the thought, somehow manifesting itself into the voice of my little Maddie. ”
― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

tags: action, adventure, drama, fiction, literary-fiction, manifest, metaphysical, sci-fi, science, travel-adventure

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#14

“There’s no point in fighting me on this. Wherever you go, one, or both of us will be with you. Period. Get used to it. Short of actually sleeping on your doorstep, I’m going to follow you everywhere. I’m going to be so close that if you turn your head for a breath I’ll be there to give you mouth-to-mouth. So, you may as well just give in and take me with you. It’ll save us both a lot of time and frustration.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: dark, drama, dramatic, emotionally-charged, hardship, romantic, suspense, tense

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#15

“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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#16

“...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.”
― Iain Banks, A Song of Stone

tags: self-pity, sorrow

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#17

“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of progress or improvement.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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#18

“I watched Hugo Barrington when he gave his evidence. The same self-confidence, the same arrogance, the same half-truths spouted convincingly to the jury, just as he’d whispered them to me in the privacy of the bedroom.”
― Jeffrey Archer, Only Time Will Tell

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#19

“There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness”
― Sophocles

tags: philosophical, philosophical-musings, philosophical-reflection

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#20

“Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've been here, what my purpose in life is, which feet to put my shoes on. Stuff like that.”
― Eoin Colfer, And Another Thing...

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#21

“Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.”
― David Foster Wallace

tags: boredom

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#22

“The smell of green grass was rich and comforting. He felt better already. This is splendid. We can all go for a garbage buffet tonight.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animalstories, comfortreads, cozyvibes, funnykidsbooks, humorouschildrensbooks, kidlit, middlegrade, naturelovers, senseofplace

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#23

“Therefore, knowledge is guarded more carefully than gold”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: ancient-wisdom, big-ideas, curiosity, knowledge, philosophical-fiction, quote-worthy, truth-seeking

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#24

“She taught me at a young age that one judges a book by its cover, so you better look presentable when arriving in foreign land”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: cultural-awareness, dress-with-intention, first-impressions, mindful-travel, style-confidence, travel-etiquette, travel-inspiration

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#25

“You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,” shrieked his hellish voice. Whether the beast was a man in a mask or a demon of his imagination, made little difference to Adam, He was petrified.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: action, danger, fear, fiction, fiction-novel, insight, thriller, trauma, unpredictable

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#26

“Their renewed sense of hope had fired up their fatigued muscles like a burst of steam powering a locomotive.”
― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age

tags: determination, historical-fiction, hope-and-grit, industrial-imagery, locomotive-metaphor, motivational-quote, readers-inspiration, resilience

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#27

“We don’t know what you mean, my dear,” Lydia says sweetly, sitting right next to him.
Atom puts his book down and looks at Steven. “It’s the unsolved blind spot. Nothing is ever ‘in the bag.’ Look, the problem of Pre-Collapse science was that it insisted on patch jobs, like Husserl’s critique of the Surreptitious Substitution and its god-like conceit, while ignoring the absurdity of measurement bias. All scientific inquiry requires an expulsive approach in order to maintain the involvement variable. This is basic stuff.” He then leans back in his comfortable chair and continues hiding behind his book.
“The Riddler has spoken,” Hannah says, moving a bishop forward three squares.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: bigideas, book-nerd, brainy-sci-fi, intellectual-fiction, meta-sci-fi, philosophy-of-science, sci-fi-philosophy, science-talk, smart-books, theory-nerd

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#28

“As a child, Michael never once heard anyone tell him “I love you.”
― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege

tags: childhood-trauma, compassion, emotional-truth, healing, heart-tug, memoir, must-read, nonfiction, redemption, trauma-recovery

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#29

“None of the other kids my age has to do all the grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, and bill paying. It’s just not fair that I have to be an adult when I’m still a kid.”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: book-club-pick, childhood, coming-of-age, emotional-truth, family, heartfelt-reads, historical-fiction, resilience

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#30

“Our independence is still fragile. To seize power is difficult, but to preserve it is more difficult!”
― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick

tags: booklovers, historicalfiction, nationbuilding, politicalhistory, power, quoteoftheday, resistance, vietnamwar, vulnerable

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