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#2

“Every cold case is someone’s failure. And while every failure has many illegitimate parents, usually, one person gets stuck with the kid. Scholz was this ugly baby’s mother. And mommas can be very temperamental about their babies, especially the ugly ones.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

tags: crime, death, fascinating, intrigue, law, murder, revenge, suspicious, tragedy

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#3

“I called and called until someone took pity and told me what was going on. She developed COVID-19 pneumonia and they put her on a ventilator.”
My sister’s crying was bordering on hysteria. “Jack, she died this morning! Deloris is gone! I still can’t believe it!”
I swerved, slammed on the brakes, and pulled the Ram over to the side of the highway.”
― Behcet Kaya, Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel

tags: drama, fiction, fiction-writing, murder-mystery, mystery, noir, noir-mystery, organised-crime, secrets

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#4

“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, humour, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, sorcery

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#5

“His remains consigned to the elements and wolves, would scattered across the March.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: destruction, fast-paced, gripping, humans, irreversible-damage, literary-fiction, mission, struggles, threat, turmoil

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#6

“Why not laughter when an enemy’s outsmarted? Why not laughter to empty the tragedy from you when karma interrupts the beautiful death of a true samurai, when karma causes the useless death of a pretty girl? Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth?”
― James Clavell, Shōgun, Part 1

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#7

“Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
― Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past

tags: fantasy, fantasy-books, fantasy-books-humour, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-young-adult

615 likes

#8

“Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves.
- Emmett Cullen”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

tags: confidence

128 likes

#9

“Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence

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#10

“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

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#11

“On January 1, 1919, all the yearlings in the big stable celebrated their second birthday. It didn’t matter that all of them had some months to go before they were actually two years of age. Officially, in the eyes of the Thoroughbred Racing Association, they were two-year-olds, grown up and old enough to begin their racing careers the following spring.”
― Walter Farley, Man O'War

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