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#1

“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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#2

“I don't want to be caught with my pants down.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action, adventure, death, dystopian, life, literary-fiction, past, sci-fi, travel, witty

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#3

“My heart aches, a drowsy numbness pains as if of hemlock I had drunk."

Ode To A NIghtengale, John Keats”
― Barbara Sontheimer

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#4

“Raya knew this type of girl – they never liked her. Usually they’d make fun of her, behind her back, but loud enough for her to hear. She was too alternative, too poor and too cynical – the foster kid – to be of any interest to these social climbers.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, curses, enchanting, fiction, intrigue, magic, magical, unpredictable, ya-litterature

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#5

“As the taxi entered the intersection, the two drivers in the attorney general’s entourage slammed on the brakes. Both Suburbans fishtailed out of control. Ducking in the back seat, Blake could smell the burning rubber from tires skidding on the asphalt and hear the pedestrians screaming and car horns sounding off in rebuke.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: clandestine, counterterrorism, drama, justice, legal, novel, plotting, suspense, target

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#6

“The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,” he murmured. Thinking of her out there on the battlefield. In his tent. What more could a woman want? Quite a lot, actually.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: action, drama, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, love, page-turner, politics, suspense

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#7

“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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#8

“Then as he had kept watch Sam had noticed that at times a light seemed to be shining faintly within; but now the light was even clearer and stronger. Frodo's face was peaceful, the marks of fear and care had left it; but it looked old, old and beautiful, as if the chiseling of the shaping years was now revealed in many fine lines that had before been hidden, though the identity of the face was not changed. Not that Sam Gamgee put it that way to himself. He shook his head, as if finding words useless, and murmured: "I love him. He's like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

tags: sam-gamgee

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#9

“She adjusted her body weight and caught his eyes, her gaze shiny and with a tinge of sadness. “My grandmother told me once that the world is filled with ghosts. The longer we live the more ghosts will haunt us.” She paused glancing at her palms. “But they’re here to remind us we are alive. That our hearts beat, blood runs through our veins, we breath air into our lungs.”
― Simon W. Clark, The Russian Ink

tags: binds-us-together, emotions-and-attitude, faith-in-each-other, fiction, keeps-us-strong, protection, spy-thriller

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#10

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum

tags: dead-poets-society-movie

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#11

“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

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#12

“Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern.”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: action, ancestry, discovery, family, family-history, future, history, literary-fiction, love, suspense

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#13

“This book was under arrest, along with its author. This event occurred on March 27, 1986. During that time, the totalitarian system in East Europe was called socialism and even by the scientific nonsense and absurd names of Communism and Communist system. In this system, the official ideology was allegedly Marxism, but really it could not endure any Marxist criticism. Since this “socialist” system was afraid of the weapon of criticism, it applied criticism of the weapon against its own citizens, as Marx would have said.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: economic-theory, economy, equality, freedom, humanity, liberty, new-government, politics, radical, state

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#14

“She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: betrayal, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, realistic, suspense, thriller

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#15

“The requirement for anyone running for elected office to have held a position of public service, such as fireman, school teacher, librarian, scout leader, or policeman was never actually passed into law.
Still the range of day jobs that some of our Congress people now hold are pretty amazing.
Somehow these days a background as a lawyer is a big minus.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

tags: american-history, discovery, historical-fiction, history, humour, satire, service, witty, women-in-politics

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#16

“You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.”
― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

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#17

“I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

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#18

“I do not like to dwell on the past. Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can’t see where we are going!”
― R.J. Palacio, The Julian Chapter

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#19

“Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

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#20

“The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: alex-delarge, good-and-evil, violence

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#21

“10. The stranger’s breath also came out in small white clouds. The man was clearly a lot fitter than his charges and wasn’t breathing nearly as heavily. “I have been sent – that’s all you need to know for now. As to the walls, there are secrets in even the thickest walls, young master. You just need to know where to look.”
― Robert Reid, The Empress

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fantasy

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#22

“The devil wins only through lies and deception.”
― Kathryn Krick

tags: conscience, goodness, hurt, inner-demons, kindness, light-and-dark, love, monsters, peace, wounded

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#23

“Faith cannot be about absolute certainty in the letters of the Bible and wrath against those who don’t comply (Ephesians 2:15). It has to be about overwhelming trust in God’s love,6 which as the apostle Paul confirms, is beyond the letter of law and narrow legalistic interpretations.”
― Amos Smith, Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots

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#24

“I ended up sitting right next to Sexy Patty. The placement wasn’t on purpose. (I needed the hands of God, not a girlfriend.) Since I was dealing with my own issues, I failed to notice that she was clenching a napkin and sweating profusely from head to toe. Nonetheless, she looked hotter than a fever.”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

tags: hope, humour, inspirational, inspiring, mental-illness, touching, understanding

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#25

“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, engaging, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery

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#26

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

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#27

“I suppose knowing where you are is better than having you skulk around, popping out of dark alleys and doorways. It eliminates the possibility of shooting you by accident. If I know where you are, I can shoot you on purpose.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: excitement, exciting, fear, griping, intrigue, romance, romantic-fiction, sex, sexy-entanglements, thrilling

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#28

“ It was stated by an Australian Army Officer, “Phuoc Tuy offers the perfect terrain for guerrilla warfare. It has a long coastline with complex areas of mangrove swamps, isolated ranges of very rugged mountains and a large area of uninhabited jungle containing all of the most loathsome combinations of thorny bamboos, poisonous snakes, insects, malaria, dense underbrush, swamps and rugged ground conditions that the most dedicated guerrilla warfare expert could ask for.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, history-resource, leaders, research, southeast-asia, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam

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#29

“Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

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#30

“I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ...”
― Nick Hornby, Songbook

tags: music

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