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#1

“Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

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

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#2

“I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives though. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?” “You insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you think of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be you. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.” “You mean you don't hate me?” This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him. He was used to hate, he could deal with it, but this he could not understand, he had used the girl ruthlessly and yet she did not hate him.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, action-and-adventure, action-thriller, favourite-books, suspense, thriller, thriller-writing

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#3

“Take it from me, kid, sometimes it’s okay to run. You run as fast as you damn well can.”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

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

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#4

“When Dani was about 1,000 feet above the ground, her direction changed from vertical to horizontal. She sped east at high speed. She estimated her speed to be many hundreds of kilometers per hour. As she thought about it, if she was going to make this trip in one hour, her speed would have to be about the speed of a jet airline. Yet she felt no wind, nor cold, whatsoever.”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain

tags: adventure, compelling, complex, fiction, metaphysical, romance, sci-fi, science, science-fiction, time-travel

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#5

“We can be beacons of light”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

tags: inspirational

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#6

“The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training” to “protect our culture,” while they simultaneously paid $2 million a year for Dr. Porter to destroy it. It was a laughable facade, but instead I wanted to cry.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: action, drama, family-life, fiction, personal-growth, realistic, stress, strife, thriller

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#7

“It was shortly after Raimund’s eighth birthday, over the evening meal, when Arvid announced, “The orphan is now old enough to earn his keep. He is coming with me tonight.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

tags: book-1, drama, fantasy, fiction, historical, history, intrigue, mystery, trilogy

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#8

“Tobacco and coffee,” Kristy said. “Man. They smell so
good before. Un-lit. Un-brewed. You know?”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

tags: death-and-dying, murder-mystery, thriller-novels

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#9

“Perhaps the early indicators of the end times were not birthed in these later events. But were rather the symptoms of a fundamental flaw in the human condition.”
― Rohith S. Katbamna, Down and Rising

tags: englightening

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#10

“He that has many friends, has no friends.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

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#11

“My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

tags: environment

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#12

“That's what life is about, doing as good as you can. When the times comes for them to lay you down in the long black hole, they can say one thing: 'He did as good as he could.' That's the best thing you can say for a man. Horse breaker or yard sweeper, let them say the poor boy did it good as he could.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

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#13

“فى قاموسى الكافر، ثمة كلمة واحدة مقدسـة: الصداقة”
― Milan Kundera, La festa dell'insignificanza

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#14

“Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.”
― Irving Stone, Lust for Life

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#15

“What seemed at first like an act of incandescent self-destruction turned out to be the onramp to a bleak treadmill, one that felt designed to eradicate my personality and identity. It didn’t end my self-recrimination and misery. Instead, it illustrated just how good I’d had it living on the street.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

tags: emotional-pain, engaging, engrossing, fantasy, feelings, page-turner, paranormal, scary, tragedy, vivid

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#16

“I understand more that pain is evidence to our awakening to truth and also a measure of closeness to truth.”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

tags: conspiracy, dystopian-fiction, emotional-depth, gender, horrific, lies, morality, power, truth, violence

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#17

“...the cruelest thing you ever said to me was that you would always love me.”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

tags: black-market, brooklyn, gangster, guardian, high-school, junior, patriotic, sexism, survival, wwii

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#18

“Yes. Have…have you ever been shot?”
“Yep, more than once. But I was never shot by the same guy twice. If you know what I mean.”
― Michael Deeze, The Deathbed Confessions

tags: ambition, confidant, consecutive-life-sentences, crime, deception, dying, fear, hidden, suffering, truths

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#19

“No one has the rights to summon you. Only Stardust. And that because she’s your mother and not the queen.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

tags: chivalry, defence, empathetic, peace, relationships, romance, species, survival, threat, winged-humanoids

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#20

“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: adventure, danger, drama, emotional, emotions, family, fiction, literary, literary-fiction, loss

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#21

“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, adventure, climatic, dramatic, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, mystery, profound, tense, unpredictable

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#22

“Mae’s Diner mirrored Samantha’s memories precisely—a cheap haven of pink vinyl booths and black-and-white checkered floors, the mouthwatering aroma of fried chicken and apple pie permeating the air.”
― Stella Sinclaire, Fertile Ground for Murder

tags: anger, betrayal, challenges, clues, dark, emotional-depth, fiction-writing, hidden, psychology, strained-relationships

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#23

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma

282 likes

#24

“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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#25

“No, mi amor, yo no os amaba.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

tags: breakheart-moments

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#26

“Sometimes, even in the most unfortunate of lives, there will occur a moment or two of good fortune.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

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#27

“Master Richard carries so much on his young shoulders, the normal troubles associated with adolescence in addition to sharing Master Bruce's crusade. I only wonder if he knows how casually he is throwing away the years of his youth. And if in the end, he will feel it was worth it.”
― Chuck Dixon

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#28

“Sum patria ex Ithaca, comes infelicis Ulixi,
nomine Achaemenides, Troiam genitore Adamasto
paupere---mansissetque utinam fortuna!---profectus.
Hic me, dum trepidi crudelia limina linquunt,
inmemores socii vasto Cyclopis in antro
deseruere.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid (Translated): Latin and English

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