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    “A slither to my right. It reminded me that people weren’t the only danger out here. Hopefully, what I thought were silent steps were thunderous to the desert snakes.”
    ― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre
    tags: compelling, complex-motives, dark-secrets, dramatic-twists, forbidden-truths, high-speed-chase, layered-characters, rapid-fire-action, redemption, undercover-investigation
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    Sara Pascoe
    “On the end of my bed. He’s short, round and bald, with a tartan loin cloth, and what looks like a spout on the top of his head,’ Bryony said. ‘You flatter me,’ came the snide male voice. ‘But it’s a valve.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, coming-of-age, coming-of-age-fiction, engaging, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, occult, supernatural, young-adult
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  • #3
    Lotchie Burton
    “Everybody has scars, and every scar has a story. Especially the ones you don’t see. Those go deeper. And cause more damage.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire
    tags: conspiracies, conspire, domination, finding, heated, heroes, plots, secrets, suspense, thrilling
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  • #4
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
    Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence
    tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance
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  • #5
    Author Harold Phifer
    “I knew Dad was concerned about my past associations. I was from the Trash Alley. It was my community. I hung out with thugs from the Frog Bottom, the Burns Bottoms, the Red Line, the S-Curve, the Sandfield, the Morning Side, and a bunch of other places that shall remain nameless. I knew all of the “Legends of the Hood”: Sin Man, Swap, Boo Boo, Emp-Man, Cookie Man, Shank, Polar Bear, Bae Willy, Bae Bruh, Skullhead Ned, Pimp, Crunch, and Goat Turd (just to name a few). I thought maybe Dad had summoned me as a “show and tell” for the kids in his neighborhood—the hardliner to scare those wayward suburban brats back into reality.”
    ― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
    tags: chaos, deeper-understanding, dysfunctional-families, family, family-humour, life-lessons, struggle, trauma, truth
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    Alyssa Hall
    “The officer looked at her. “So, to recap, you carried a package of, you don’t know what, for a girl you’ve never seen before and gave it to a man you don’t know. Or so you say. Who does that?”
    ― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet
    tags: british-columbia, drug-trafficking, emotional-healing, evocative, fort-langley, gripping, life-changes, murder-mystery, small-town-mystery, suspenseful-romance
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    Margarita Barresi
    “Marco had examined every inch of Guayanés Beach, where coconut palms that once grew along the shore in majestic rows lay crisscrossed in the sand like scattered pencils.”
    ― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage
    tags: colonialism, cultural-pride, evocative, historical-fiction, loyalty, lush-landscapes, motherhood, political-reform, rebellion, self-discovery
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  • #8
    “I stood up to go shake hands with him and I don’t remember anything else. What I do recall is the crowd yelling and me crying, while everything seemed to be moving in slow motion.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: community, family, friendships, healing, life-experiences, love, realisation, self-discovery, support, time-management
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  • #9
    “I'm not into this whole "move with the times" thing. I reckon we should just decide on a year and stick with it.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: cynicism, humour, life, philosophy, writers-life
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  • #10
    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “I have a question for you Water. What happens to the water in my body if I get angry at someone or if someone gets angry with me?”

    “A very good question,” said Water. “In either case, the water in your body gets upset and causes you to not feel very well. You feel sad, or maybe you will cry. Crying is good because it puts good endorphins into your body, and you will start to feel better. They help the water in your body to recover.”
    ― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water
    tags: emotional-awareness, emotional-intelligence, energy-in-motion, holistic-parenting, magical-world, mindful-living, nurturing, nurturing-nature, storytelling-with-purpose, universe-connection
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  • #11
    Lloyd C. Douglas
    “He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth.”
    ― Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe
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    Willa Cather
    “The experience of that night, coming so overwhelmingly to a man so dead, almost rent me in pieces. It was the same feeling that artists know when we, rarely, achieve truth in our work; the feeling of union with some great force, of purpose and security, of being glad that we have lived. For the first time I felt the pull of race and blood and kindred, and felt beating within me things that had not begun with me. It was as if the earth under my feet had grasped and rooted me, and were pouring its essence into me. I sat there until the dawn of morning, and all night long my life seemed to be pouring out of me and running into the ground. -- from the short story The Namesake”
    ― Willa Cather, A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: bukowski, hate, people
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  • #14
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
    tags: conscience, herd-mentality, peer-pressure, reputation
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  • #15
    Günter Grass
    “We struck up a conversation, taking pains at first to give it an easy flow and sticking to the most frivolous topics. Did he, I asked, believe in predestination? He did. Did he believe that all men were doomed to die? Yes, he felt certain that all men would absolutely have to die, but he was less sure that all men had to be born...”
    ― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum
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  • #16
    Anne Rice
    “I wasn't sent here to find angels! I wasn't sent here to dream of them. I wasn't sent here to hear them sing! I was sent here to be alive. To breathe and sweat and thirst and sometimes cry.”
    ― Anne Rice, Out of Egypt
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