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#1

“Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, engaging, fiction, literature, new-adult, romance, ya, ya-litterature

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#2

“You realize, of course, the Omegans nearly lost this Earth. They
had everything yet let it disintegrate through their rampant carelessness.
Two hundred years past they possessed the rudimentary beginnings
of the NET to bring them together. They called it the Internet.
Yet they treated it like a toy, tribalized themselves, and thus nearly lost
the planet.
“Nationalist wars, self serving ideologies, competing religions . . .
more significant, though not to the Omegans, was climate change
itself, which mattered more than any petty dogma, but they ignored
it until too late. It has ultimately determined our lives, managed now
by the CORPORATE, using the only possible tools to survive. There
were billions of Humans then. There is now but a fraction of that:
some 300 million we know in the MEGS and, of course, the uncounted
MASSes.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

tags: adventure, android, dramatic, dystopian, fantasy, fiction-action, good-v-s-evil, human-evolution, science-fiction

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#3

“God is the Cure, Love is the Answer”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, God is the Cure, Love is the Answer : A Memoir

tags: abuse, betrayal, devine, fight, god, hope, life, strength, truth, unrest

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#4

“Amanda, still thinking more about Harry Mize than the issues before the committee, lunged forward and snatched the note from Kershing’s hand. After reading it, she stood up and walked out of the hearing, leaving the receipt on her chair. Rick glanced up as she walked out. Then, he picked up his receipt and read Kershing’s words. Get the trucks in position. It’s time to go.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: fast-paced, government, mysterious, mystery, page-turner, plot-driven, thriller, u-s-justice

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#5

“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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#6

“Blair continued. “The old man only visits me in dreams. Dressed always in black with amber fire as his companion, he is older than the mountains. He is the fire of othium and he comes with an ancient name, Oien. He demands you take your throne and raise his armies. You will rebuild for him the glory of the second age.”
Robert Reid – The Son”
― Robert Reid, The Son

tags: fantasy-fiction, medieval-fantasy, tudor-period

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#7

“The Trump marriage veered furthest away from my concept of the union — and surprised me most as a student of American politics. Donald and Melania seem to inhabit separate realms and to come together when necessary, when one could not move forward without the other. The presidency was one instance in which they were forced into a joint undertaking. If my choice of language sounds businesslike, that’s because that’s how I’ve come to view the Trumps. Having learned more about each partner’s history, I believe they are two highly ambitious individuals who benefit from their partnership. It’s a transaction: he gains a beautiful woman on his arm, a solid-seeming marriage, a son, and a savvy adviser. She gains wealth and international cachet.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

tags: calculation, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationships, trump

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#8

“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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#9

“Ancient Chinese believe that when you dream, your soul leaves your body and travels to dream world. In dream world, there is no time. No past, no present, no future. When you remember dreams, it is very important to interpret those dreams because dreams you remember are very important to your future.”
― Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

tags: adventure, courage, curiosity, drama, dreams, emotions, fiction, intrigue, reality, romance

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#10

“The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.”
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

tags: fantastic, fantasy, genre

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#11

“She was breaking her rules. They weren't stone after all, only small and fragile as paper cranes.... I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you break the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

tags: breaking-rules, rules-of-life, rules-to-live-by

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#12

“And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly”
― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

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#13

“Precisamos que as pessoas tentem imaginar de verdade – de uma vez por todas – como é ter seu corpo invadido, sua mente despedaçada, sua alma estilhaçada.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

tags: repressão, violência-sexual

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#14

“I realized I still had my eyes shut. I had shut them when I put my face to the screen, like I was scared to look outside. Now I had to open them. I looked out the window and saw for the first time how the hospital was out in the country. The moon was low in the sky over the pastureland; the face of it was scarred and scuffed where it had just torn up out of the snarl of scrub oak and madrone trees on the horizon. The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon. I was off on a hunt with Papa and the uncles and I lay rolled in blankets Grandma had woven, lying off a piece from where the men hunkered around the fire as they passed a quart jar of cactus liquor in a silent circle. I watched that big Oregon prairie moon above me put all the stars around it to shame. I kept awake watching, to see if the moon ever got dimmer or the stars got brighter, till the dew commenced to drift onto my cheeks and I had to pull a blanket over my head.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

tags: landscape, moon, stars

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#15

“Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?” he asked. Yellow hair like hers was rare among the Greeks. Though some people say that Helen of Troy . . .”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: exquisite, governance, historical, history, justice, political-intrigue, realistic, romance, vibrant

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#16

“The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty, and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to make up its mind.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, historical-fantasy, magic, occult, supernatural, teenagers, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal, young-adult

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#17

“Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: advanced, bloodshed, drama, exciting, fiction, genetics, lovers, political, supremacist, thrilling

453 likes

#18

“Forgiveness heals the forgiver, though not necessarily the forgiven.”
― Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin, Sacrifices Beyond Kingdoms: A Provocative Romance Torn Between Continents and Cultures

tags: ambition, climactic, emotionally-charged, excitement, explore, fight, kidnapping, kingdoms, love-triangle, power

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#19

“Why was bail denied?”
“This is a very small town. The professor was a very popular man, despite some of the reasons why. Besides that, Stella is, at this moment, the most hated women around these parts. It’s far safer for her to be in jail.”
― Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance

tags: action, adventure, crime, dramatic, jail, murder, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller

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#20

“Stand in the machine there, let’s see what state your internal organs are in. The images will be projected on screen, and I can go through the diagnosis with you, step by step.” Brown did as he was told and soon images of his vital organs appeared on the screen.  As you can see, your heart is slightly enlarged and your lungs and kidneys are not in good shape either. Have you been experiencing any pain lately?” “Not that I can think of. What can you do to help?” “Difficult to say, you see you are dying” said the Doctor. You can see the discolouration in your kidneys.” Brown strained his eyes.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, action-and-adventure, action-thriller, drama, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, suspense-thriller

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#21

“The minute the door was opened, she wished she had made some excuse not to see them. Victor was sitting by the bed, and the tender expression on his face as he looked down at his wife and latest child, made something violent and jealous jump in Penelope's heart. She could have murdered Ethan for shutting the door loudly behind them, interrupting their intimacy.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: captivating, drama, dramatic, fiction-writing, intrigue, literary-novel, literary-romance, relationships, tense

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#22

“When you are an addict and you get caught, you always seem to be at your lowest point.”
― Andrew Mann, Such Unfortunates

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#23

“The sun is rising through a yellow, howling wind. Time for breakfast. Inside the trailer now, broiling bacon and frying eggs with good appetite, I hear the sand patter like rain against the metal walls and brush across the windowpanes. A fine silt accumulates beneath the door and on the window ledge. The trailer shakes in a sudden gust. All one to me -- sandstorm or sunshine I am content, so long as I have something to eat, good health, the earth to take my stand on, and light behind the eyes to see by.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

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