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#1

“Time’s voice is everything you can physically experience. It is a favourite smell, a first taste from childhood, a vision shared with one you love. Time touches you as if it had fingers that possess infinite knowledge of how to caress with utmost beauty and you in turn can touch Time. You can feel it’s breath as if it was your own sleeping child’s.”
― Frank Lambert, Ghost Doors

tags: dark, dark-fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, ghost-stories, paranormal, teen-ya, underworld, young-adult

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#2

“But, he duly ate the peanut and whoosh!”
― Molly Arbuthnott, Peanut the Hamster

tags: animals, children-books, children-s-learning, faith, fiction, fiction-books, friendship, hope, love, pets

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#3

“Avec un peau d'aide de vos amis.”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

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#4

“Listen, you might as well learn now that life’s nothin’ but a dirt sandwich and save yourself a lot of time.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, detective, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, noir-mystery, pi, private-investigation

138 likes

#5

“She peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads, like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the distance.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, drama, fantasy, fiction, iction, paranormal, teen-ya, urban

432 likes

#6

“He turned and smiled resolvedly at her. He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with what she considered to be the silly confines of love or marriage.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: betrayal, emotions, friendship, historical-backdrop, honour, human-emotions, love, passion, resilience, torment

191 likes

#7

“Future Politics
Effecting change in national politics was mostly a matter of making better use of online forums, encouraging voters to press forth with hard questions, providing statistics and solutions. Direct-to-voter referendums became an increasingly common way of effecting national policy. If Congress were deadlocked over a particular issue, the voters would be asked to make up their minds for them in the form of an online referendum.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

tags: alternative-history, educational, female-presidents, fiction, fictional-narratives, historical-research, leadership, political, political-fiction, unique

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#8

“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

844 likes

#9

“Nadie ha visto nunca a un perro hacer un intercambio justo y deliberado de un hueso por otro con otro perro. Nadie ha visto a un animal que, con gestos y sonidos naturales, indique a otro: esto es mío y esto es tuyo; estoy dispuesto a darte esto a cambio de eso”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume I

tags: economics-society

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#10

“To be a good soldier you must love the army. But to be a good officer you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. That is … a very hard thing to do. No other profession requires it. That is one reason why there are so very few good officers. Although there are many good men.”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

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#11

“It is a mistake," he said, " to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century. Once it was well known that cigarettes increased the incidence of lung cancer, the obvious remedy was to stop smoking, but the desired remedy was a cigarette that did not cause cancer. When it became clear that the internal-combustion engine was polluting the atmosphere dangerously, the obvious remedy was to abandon such engines, and the desired remedy was to develop non-polluting engines.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves

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#12

“The Gethenians do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imaginations to accept. After all, what is the first question we ask about a newborn baby? ....there is no division of humanity into strong and weak halves, protected/ protective. One is respected and judged only as a human being. You cannot cast a Gethnian in the role of Man or Woman, while adopting towards 'him' a corresponding role dependant on your expetations of the interactions between persons of the same or oppositve sex. It is an appalling experience for a Terran ”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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#13

“ It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things. ”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

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#14

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. I see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and enduring. And all men of my age, here and over there, throughout the whole world see these things; all my generation is experiencing these things with me. What would our fathers do if we suddenly stood up and came before them and proffered our account? What do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over? Through the years our business has been killing;—it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of life is limited to death. What will happen afterwards? And what shall come out of us?”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

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#15

“Closed curtains subdued the storm noises, as if the cloth and glass really were a protective shell for Holywell.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: cozy-gothic, gothic-atmosphere, haunted-house-vibes, paranormal-mystery, safe-haven, stormy-reads, witchy-mystery

133 likes

#16

“Blake shook his head and smiled as the attorney general of the United States closed the door. As usual, the forecast called for a wonderful day at the United States Department of Justice. Unfortunately, the daily forecast would soon change, as would the life of Blake Hudson.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: action, edge-of-your-seat, fast-paced, government, heart-pounding, humour, mysterious, mystery, thriller, u-s-justice

109 likes

#17

“How you see yourself matters. See yourself as a victim, and you become one. See yourself as a champion and CodeBreaker, and you will become a force of nature, a conqueror of life’s storms, manifesting from nothing.”
― Chitra D. Nawbatt, The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success

tags: ambition, courage, leadership, mindset, personal-development, resilience, self-belief

84 likes

#18

“Sunlight heals the eyes, water sounds a listening grace. Lineage of sun and earth, children of the eternal, here and now, we are good.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful

tags: earth-children, eternal-themes, healing-words, hopeful-poetry, peace-and-presence, poetry, spiritual-grounding, sunlight-and-water

34 likes

#19

“People do suffer – so remember to be kind.”
― Jamie Kershaw, Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia

tags: book-quotes, compassion, kindness, lived-experience, mental-health-awareness, mental-health-memoir, stigma-free

52 likes

#20

“But when friends and colleagues ask me if I plan to stop practicing law, I always respond, ‘No. I am just getting started.”
― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life

tags: late-career, lawyer-life, legal-memoir, lifelong-purpose, motivation, never-done, reinvention

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#21

“She gave him a brief, mysterious smile. “You were watching me. I felt you before I saw you.”
So? This is a crime? he thought, determined not to retreat.
Did you study cultural physiology?
The eyes of Italian males are hardwired from birth to examine, observe, even caress, if you will, the female form. Any form. Some we glance at. Some we don’t really see, like our mothers and sisters. Some we ignore, and some we store as reference for the future. Got it?”
― Vincent Panettiere, Shared Sorrows

tags: drama, fiction, fiction-novel, guilt, love, mystery-novel, redemption, romance, sorrow, suffering

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#22

“لقد أعجب برائحة البحر لدرجة أن اشتهى الحصول عليها ، ولو مرة .. نقية دون شوائب وبكميات وافره تسكره.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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#23

“Romeo and Juliet was basically on some gang shit. You could say she was a Queen Lord, and he was a GD. They went out on their own terms like some straight-up Gs.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

tags: concrete-rose, gang, gangs, metaphor, queen-lord, romeo-and-juliet

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