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    Max Nowaz
    “A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
    ― 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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    S.G. Blaise
    “When I grow up, I want to be just like her--so confident and so in control.”
    ― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian
    tags: different-dimentions, science-fiction, young-adult
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    C. Toni Graham
    “When people tell you that "you've changed" what they really mean is...they haven't. It's easy to see movement when you're standing still. Change is inevitable and embracing your evolution in this lifetime is what's supposed to happen, but there are those that will fight against it. We are meant to examine all that life has to offer, explore our gifts, welcome love and release the loss. ”
    ― C. Toni Graham
    tags: change, embrace, evolution, life-changing, movement, positive
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    Michael Tobert
    “Karṇa walks, his back is straight, he is lit up by his divine earings; yet his feet drag. He turns into an alley. His head droops and falls to his chest. He stops. Mist swirls around him, becomes motionless, parts. From between his ribs steps a young woman. Her eyes and face and tongue are brown like old blood and she is decked in old things and she wears upon her wrists two burnt black bracelets. She places the point of a knife under Karṇa’s chest plate and cuts, a gentle sawing motion, the blade moving beneath the skin, a slicing of the quick: nerves, blood vessels, sinews. I feel his pain; not a stab; it is insistent, enduring, but sharp nonetheless, as with any loss.”
    ― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel
    tags: family-life, fiction, fiction-novel, herritage, historical, omance, struggles, women-s-saga
    44 likes

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    Kyle Keyes
    “Your little buddy just gave me the greatest
       Christmas gift I've ever gotten.”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus
    tags: 21st-century, crime-thriller, fiction, intrigue, murder, mystery-thriller, suffering, thriller-novels
    166 likes

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    “The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull burst like a ripe cabbage showering his horrified comrades with viscous brain and bits of bone.”
    ― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
    tags: atrocities, facts, fiction, history, lies, literature, secrets, war, wartime
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    Charles Dowding
    “Keep an open mind and try some new methods.”
    ― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
    tags: climate, four-seasons, gardening, harvest, harvesting, healthy-vegetable, plant-guide, seasons, sustainable
    47 likes

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Ngo Diem was heard to say, “I want a repressive machine controlling the whole of the country of South Vietnam from Saigon to the remotest villages. You shall apply massacres, torture, deportations, and mass imprisonment while conducting constant raids. You shall make the population so fearful of this government that no-one shall ever dare to become a revolutionary or any other kind of outlaw!”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: band-of-brothers, guns, love, loyalty, military-budget, pilots-family, politics, poverty
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    Harvey Havel
    “It seemed as though he would never pull free, until he awoke one morning feeling kind of awkward, as though his hands had been lopped off by some Arabian sword during a routine druggie blackout, and in their place, pale and membranous hands that had been fit to his wrists by aliens that took him up while he slept and then brought him back down – all of it in an effort to help him move up to where he belonged in society.”
    ― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
    tags: fiction, horror, humour, literary-fiction, paranormal, politics, sci-fi, science-fiction, short-stories
    49 likes

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    John Bennardo
    “My father was incredibly indecisive. As an example, take his wedding day. He couldn't decide where to sit in the getaway car, decide the fact he was supposed to be driving.”
    ― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake
    tags: bad-behaviour, behaviour, entertainment, fast-paced, fiction, hilarious, media-driven, social-media, society, witty
    69 likes

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    Rick Mystrom
    “Most people don’t know how to lose weight. They try different diets with good intentions and hope. They fail. They try again and fail. Then they often give up and return to eating for satisfaction and fulfillment. 

    Why have so many failed? They’ve tried cutting out sweets. That helps, but it’s only part of the cause of their weight gain. They’ve tried counting calories. That’s burdensome and, again, only part of the story. They’ve failed because no one has ever told them, in clear, everyday terms, how we all gain and lose weight.”
    ― Rick Mystrom
    tags: body, control, diabetes, fats, free-foods, health, live-life, live-longer, live-well, wellbeing
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    Gregory Maguire
    “We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: life, melena, mother, pregnancy, wicked
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    Chris Cleave
    “Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.”
    ― Chris Cleave, Little Bee
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    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think.”
    ― N.H. Kleinbaum
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    Robert Jordan
    “Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.
    A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt
    tags: wheel-of-time
    90 likes

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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, Flotsam
    tags: philosophy
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    Michael Cunningham
    “What marriage doesn't involve uncountable accretions, a language of gestures, a sense of recognition sharp as a toothache? Unhappy, sure. What couple isn't unhappy, at least part of the time? But how can the divorce rate be, as they say, skyrocketing? How miserable would you have to get to be able to bear the actual separation, to go off and live your life so utterly unrecognized?”
    ― Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall
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