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#1

“Cung went to his section commander Corporal Binh Chien Bui and spoke to him. He said, “Binh, come quickly, something strange is going on!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, war, war-recount

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#2

“Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated from MIT. So . . . but you’re all alike to me . . . of course, you would be . . . you’re robots. And all your names are that sort of, um . . . codes, technical numbers . . . I need some marker where I can pick you out. Well, well, to you I’ll call . . .,” and Willy pondered for a moment, “Gumball, yes, Gumball! Do you mind?” “No, sir, actually no,” CSE-TR-03 said, agreeing with its new given name. “Ah, that’s wonderful. And then you’re Darwin,” Willy said, accosting the second robot. “Look what a nice name—Darwin! What do you say, eh?” “What can I say, sir? I like it,” CSE-TR-02 agreed too. “Yes, a human name with a past . . . You and Gumball . . . are from the same family, the Methanesons!” “It turns out thus, sir,” Darwin confirmed its family belonging. “And you’re like Larry. You’re Larry. Do you know that?” More addressed the next robot in line. “Yes, sir, just now I learned that,” the third robot said, accepted its name as well.”
― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

tags: ai, ai-theme, artificial-intelligence, dystopian, futuristic, machine-learning, machines, robotics, science-fiction, technology

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#3

“Black considered shooting him here. That idea lasted about a second. Thought about pushing the barrel through the man’s skull. That lasted a couple more.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: action, conspiracy, crime, espionage, gripping, horror, intense, thriller, thrilling

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#4

“We’re so very sorry about this latest murder. Ignore Simon’s levity.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: climatic, drama, emotionally-charged, fiction, intrigue, mystery, tense, unpredictable

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#5

“just imagine!” I ejaculated.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

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#6

“I am a Crank, Minho! I am a Crank! Why can’t you get that through your bloody head? If you had the Flare and knew what you were about to go through, would you want your friends to stand around and watch? Huh? Would you want that?”
― James Dashner, The Death Cure

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#7

“There’s no point in going on if you feel that way. No point at all. You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.” “I am done with being loved,” Edward told her. “I’m done with loving. It’s too painful.” “Pish,” said the old doll. “Where is your courage?” “Somewhere else, I guess,” said Edward. “You disappoint me,” she said. “You disappoint me greatly. If you have no intention of loving or being loved, then the whole journey is pointless. You might as well leap from this shelf right now and let yourself shatter into a million pieces. Get it over with. Get it all over with now.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

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#8

“Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings.”
― Dan Simmons, Ilium

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#9

“Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches inexhaustible nor the area we have to live on limitless because unbounded. We are the children of that great blue white jewel. Through our mother we are part of the solar system and part through that of the whole universe. In the blazing poetry of the fact we are children of the stars.”
― William Golding

tags: conservation, earth, environment, gaia, life, nature, nobel-lecture

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#10

“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: books, reader, reading

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#11

“You cannot!' Tatiana said sharply. 'If you order a gun there is only a single shot, and once delivered the doors are locked and will not open until it has been fired.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: dangerous-games, dangerous-liaisons, impending-doom

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#12

“Poland would rise again like a phoenix from the ashes.”
― Mark Ellis, In the Shadows of the Blitz: A deeply captivating classic crime thriller

tags: fiction, historical-fiction, historical-thriller, hope, polish-history, resistance, thriller, world-war-2

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#13

“The moisture in the air sat in the crevices of storefront windows, like the tears that welled in the corners of her dark brown eyes.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: coming-of-age, emotional-reads, grief, historical-fiction, lyrical-prose, strong-heroine, venice

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#14

“I still love the person he is—loyal and kind—but we’re on different paths, and that is okay.”
― Maria Jane, Perfect

tags: breakup-quotes, contemporary-romance, different-paths, emotional-clarity, letting-go-of-the-past, letting-go-quotes, romance, womens-fiction

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#15

“Wherever she was, familiar territory or not, the mountains were her home, and the trees her friends.”
― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison

tags: book-quotes, fiction, fierce-heroines, goodreads-quotes, historical-fiction, nature-writing, qing-dynasty, survival

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#16

“The music felt like a special gift from Ted, a view into his soul.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

tags: book-club-reads, emotional-reads, family-saga, first-love, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, music-in-fiction

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#17

“Forgiveness is an act of self-love, and you don’t even need to tell the people who have hurt you that you forgave them.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

tags: boundaries, emotional-freedom, forgiveness, healing-journey, self-help, self-love, trauma-recovery

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#18

“You are who I’ve been searching for my whole life.”
― JoDee Neathery, Wings Against The Wind

tags: contemporary-romance, desire, emotional-fiction, heart-on-sleeve, romantic-reads, soulmate-energy

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#19

“If an enemy ship cannot be taken over by our own crews, it must be sunk! There is to be no deviation from that!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion

tags: decisive, earlymedieval, militaryhistory, navalhistory, rulesofengagement, strategy

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#20

“The possibilities are endless.”
― Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge

tags: book-quotes, hopeful-quotes, love-and-danger, new-beginnings, romantic-suspense, romantic-suspense-inspirational, uplifting-reads

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#21

“Be patient, Ophelia.

Love,
Hamlet”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: shakespeare

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#22

“I don't know. I've come to tell you what I did.' Yes, that was the reason of his visit. It was the closing of a book that would never be read again, and better close such a book than leave it lying about to get dirtied. The volume of their past must be restored to its shelf, and here, here was the place, amid darkness and perishing flowers. He owed it to Alec also. He could suffer no mixing of the old with the new. All compromise was perilous, because furtive, and, having finished his confession, he must disappear from the world that had brought him up.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

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#23

“You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

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#24

“And who are you, the proud Lord said
that I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different coat,
that's all the truth I know.
In a coat of gold or a coat of red,
a lion still has claws.
And, mine are as long and sharp, my Lord
as long and sharp as yours.
And so he spoke, and so he spoke,
that Lord of Castamere,
but now the rains weep o'er his hall,
with no one there to hear.
Yes, now the rains weep o'er his hall,
and not a soul to hear.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

tags: game-of-thrones, rains-of-castamere

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#25

“Everything has happened before; if you know what comes before, then you know what happens now.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

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#26

“There were still many things to learn, but not so many as before. Strangely, life was becoming almost bearable. I don the robe of hermit without a cry, he thought.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

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