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#1

“Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover to rescue the Scroll’s Key Keeper? Where were the College’s thanks for that?”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, betrayal, detective, drama, fiction, investigation, realistic, suspense, thriller

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#2

“no one seemed to be thinking about how the “scandal” was affecting the lives of WE Charity’s beneficiaries. Her constant refrain was “The biggest loss was to the children.”
― Tawfiq S. Rangwala, What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity

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#3

“I don’t think Jake and Kenny Tracey wanted to get that acquainted with Father Gerry Bartholomew,” Zack quipped. ”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal of Faith

tags: abuse-of-power, child-abuse, church, cover-up, emotional, justice, peadophilia, priest, religion, sexual-abuse

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#4

“We would not be able to impact future generations if family was not one of our top priorities.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: altering, chronic-illness, diseases, faith, fortitude, heal, healing, life, mental, spiritual

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#5

“Without active listening, you can not adequately contribute to civil discourse.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

tags: civil-disclosure, compassion, connection, conversions, divides, improvement, inspiring, practical-tools, respectful, social-skills

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#6

“I watched her undress with moonlight shivering across the room from behind sheer curtains that moved with the currents from the hearth fire.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

374 likes

#7

“A big thing can be simply the sum of small things.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

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#8

“Killed by our collective blindness. Not a great epitaph.”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

tags: adventure, colonization, cyberpunk, epic, original, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, space, thriller

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#9

“I was able to shake off the near-death experience, and whether it was true or not, I was able to use it as some sort of moral validation as to the importance of my existence, or at least the importance of me completing this job, because clearly God, the universe or whoever understood that there was no other human being alive on this earth stupid enough to take this job.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: doctors, domestic, domestic-thriller, fiction, health, medical, medical-fiction, medical-thriller, patients, ruin

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#10

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

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#11

“The thin line between love and hate is self-deception.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

tags: adventure, crime, death, fascinating, law, murder, revenge, thrillers, tragedy

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#12

“Well, you’re not alone anymore, buddy,” I say. “Neither of us are.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

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#13

“In an over-politicized world, my wish is for this work to humanize those we call “refugees”. This book is not about the politics of the Syrian Civil War or any other conflict. Its aim is not to convince readers to support any faction or political party. Instead, this story is about the unbreakable spirit of humanity. It is about how humanity often shows its true strength during the darkest times.”
― Ammar Habib, The Heart of Aleppo: A Story of the Syrian Civil War

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#14

“In coming to Alaska, McCandless yearned to wander uncharted country, to find a blank spot on the map. In 1992, however, there were no more blank spots on the map—-not in Alaska, not anywhere. But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map. In his own mind, if nowhere else, the terra would thereby remain incognita.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

tags: terra-incognita, wandering

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#15

“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

621 likes

#16

“I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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#17

“If her talent had been ten-fold greater than it was, it would not have surprised him, convinced as he was that he had bequeathed to all of his daughters the germs of a masterful capability, which only depended upon their own efforts to be directed toward successful achievement.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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#18

“Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party for the convenience of the police. It’s like an old-fashioned mystery novel.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: drama, excitement, fiction-novel, investigation, murder-mystery, mysterious, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller

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#19

“A celestial wizard doesn’t destroy celestial bodies. She bends them.”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

tags: adventure, coming-of-age, fiction, love, mystery, sci-fi, space, space-opera, teen-ya, wizardry

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#20

“We are Knights of the Trinity, Angels of the Third Realm of Heaven
Warriors of The Almighty
Defenders of Righteousness, Truth. And Justice
Protectors of the Weak and Downtrodden
Guardians of the realms of men.
We pledge our spirits, our swords, and our shields in service,
Not for glory, not for pride, but for the honor to serve the Most-High
May the forces of Darkness tremble in our wake and die at our hands! We are the Chosen Twelve, the Blessed, the Mighty War-riors of the Everlasting Order
Hazah! Hazah! Hazah!”
― J.B. Lion, The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity

tags: action, fantasy, graphic-novel, illustrated-books, inequality, lifting-the-veil, mental-construct, sci-fi, social-structures, socioeconomics

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#21

“Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fiction, historical-fantasy, intrigue, magic, mystery

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#22

“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was farther away. She swung her head around—so was the shore.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: battles, classical-struggles, drama, family-life, hierarchy, naval-battles, passion, philosophical, rebellion

845 likes

#23

“A haunting memory flooded over Ethan when his own little sister had died. He had not thought of her in years! He glanced at the other chairs that sat empty around the table and wondered how different, or better his life would have been if she had lived. He tried to imagine her sitting there, but had trouble conjuring up her face.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: american-historical-romance, emotional, historical-backdrop, human-emotions, love, powerful, resilience, romance, romantic-tension

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#24

“Bonnyman quickly walked over to the head and picked it up by the hair. He held it in front of his face. ‘Tell me whose orders you follow,’ he said in a gentle voice that Zam didn’t think he possessed.
The wraith looked past Bonnyman, staring at its body twitching on the floor. ‘Never your orders,’ it gasped, before closing its eyes forever.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

tags: captivating, death, drama, fiction, fiction-writing, horror, mystery, supernatural, thriller

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#25

“Paul’s last grain of hope falling to the ground below him.”
― Molly Arbuthnott, Peanut the Hamster

tags: children-s-learning, discovery, fun, happiness, imagination, literature, love, mystery, warm

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#26

“I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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#27

“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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#28

“I had a lot of disasters in the kitchen, even during the long period when I was cooking under my mother's supervision and with the benefit of her experience. I still fail all the time, in particular when I turn to baking. After hundreds of attempts, following dozens of different formulas, I don't think I have ever made what I would consider to be a completely successful pie crust. Disaster is somehow part of the appeal of cooking for me. If that first Velvet Crumb Cake had turned out to be a flop, I don't know if I would have pursued my interest in cooking. But cooking entails stubbornness and a tolerance--maybe even a taste--for last-minute collapse. You have to be able to enjoy the repeated and deliberate following of a more of less lengthy, more or less complicated series of steps whose product is very likely--after all that work, with no warning, right at the end--to curdle, sink, scorch, dry up, congeal, burn, or simply taste bad.”
― Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs

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