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#1

“The temperature in the office plummeted.
Frost crackled.
It spider-webbed across the glass of the window. His mind played tricks. It couldn’t be frost, not in the summer.
Death closed in around him.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Double Cross

tags: adventure, dark-fantasy, exciting, fantasy, horror, paranormal, supernatural, suspense, thriller, urban-fantasy

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#2

“It seemed her biological father was a saint.
Except for the one mistake, the man who didn’t make mistakes, made.
Her.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Crossover

tags: action, action-thriller, drama, favorites, fiction, mystery, suspense, suspense-thriller, thriller

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#3

“He’d wormed his way into Justin’s life like a grub—preying on his weaknesses and his sexual orientation.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Crossbones

tags: dark, drama, fantasy, ghost, horror, paranormal, romance, suspense, urban-fantasy

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#4

“His need had been so strong it frightened him because they almost sensed each other’s pain. They were kindred spirits.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Crossbones

tags: action, blood, evil, intrigue, paranormal, popular-fiction, reincarnation, revenge, romance, soul

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#5

“The Great Spirit had shown mercy and had given him access to the most powerful weapon of all—love.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Crossbones

tags: action, blood, evil, intrigue, paranormal, popular-fiction, reincarnation, revenge, romance, soul

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#6

“A convicted felon has rights, too. Your company took advantage of my client at a low point in his life. Like a helpless child, he couldn’t fight for himself. It makes me wonder how you sleep at night.”
Aiden’s brow hiked. “The helpless child was the boy he orphaned when he killed his father.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Double Cross

tags: adventure, dark-fantasy, exciting, fantasy, horror, paranormal, supernatural, suspense, thriller, urban-fantasy

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#7

“Love is an intangible thing.”
“That’s where you’re wrong,” Arthur said. If I can prove I’m in love with your daughter, will you give us your blessing?”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Crossbones

tags: dark, dark-fantasy, fantasy, fiction, ghost-suspense, horror, love, romance, urban-fantasy

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#8

“Normally, the author retains copyright of their work unless he is hired or employed by some other person to create the work, in which event the employer is the owner.”
“You mean to tell me Dresden held the copyright on the entire Trade Secrets series?” Iris asked.
Mathew grabbed a slice of pizza and bit it in half. “I never liked that man.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Double Cross

tags: adventure, dark-fantasy, exciting, fantasy, horror, paranormal, supernatural, suspense, thriller, urban-fantasy

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#9

“Stanton probably figured you were going to try to tell him who he could and couldn’t date. I’m sure he choked when you told him he didn’t date women, he fucked them.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Crossbones

tags: death, drama, ghost, mystery, paranormal, romance, suspense, thriller

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#10

“Rubber burned.
Something sinister bore down on them.
Darkness encircled the light thrown by the streetlamp.
An engine roared.
Tires squealed.
Black metal jumped the curb.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Double Cross

tags: adventure, dark-fantasy, exciting, fantasy, horror, paranormal, supernatural, suspense, thriller, urban-fantasy

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#11

“In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay in the Sahel or powerful Great Zimbabwe in the West Africa tablelands, bigger than the cresting Ottoman Empire, bigger than the Triple Alliance (as the Aztec empire is more precisely known), bigger by far than any European state, the Inka dominion extended over a staggering thirty-two degrees of latitude—as if a single power held sway from St. Petersburg to Cairo.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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#12

“The Maya collapsed because they overshot the carrying capacity of their environment. They exhausted their resource base, began to die of starvation and thirst, and fled their cities en masse, leaving them as silent warnings of the perils of ecological hubris.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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#13

“Cultures are like books, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once remarked, each a volume in the great library of humankind. In the sixteenth century, more books were burned than ever before or since. How many Homers vanished? How many Hesiods? What great works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and music vanished or never were created? Languages, prayers, dreams, habits, and hopes—all gone.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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#14

“Pilgrim writers universally reported that Wampanoag families were close and loving—more so than English families, some thought. Europeans in those days tended to view children as moving straight from infancy to adulthood around the age of seven, and often thereupon sent them out to work. Indian parents, by contrast, regarded the years before puberty as a time of playful development, and kept their offspring close by until marriage. (Jarringly, to the present-day eye, some Pilgrims interpreted this as sparing the rod.) Boys”
― Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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#15

“Few things are more sublime or characteristically human than the cross-fertilization of cultures.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

tags: cultural-cross-fertilization

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#16

“Maize had an equivalent impact on much of the rest of the world after Columbus introduced it to Europe. Central Europeans became especially hooked on it; by the nineteenth century, maize was the daily bread of Serbia, Rumania, and Moldavia. So”
― Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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#17

“Collaborators don’t steal others’ ideas, take advantage of people, or sit back while others accomplish their tasks for them. Collaborators take action to ensure that everyone with whom they work can enjoy the maximum potential outcome.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: action, business, collaborations, confidence, maximum, organisations, potential, self-help, skill-set, success

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#18

“Success is not only dependent on understanding your own skill-set. It’s also important to recognize the talents of others and know how to profit from them.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: business, confidence, dreams, how-to, motivational, organisations, private-lives, self-help, skill-set, success

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#19

“Freedom in any moment is a product of two things: the autonomy you feel and the support for autonomy that the moment allows.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: accomplishment, business, dreams, entrepreneurs, freedom, organisations, private-lives, self-help, success, thrive

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#20

“Belief that you can act is a powerful motivator. Belief that change can happen in a flash is an even stronger motivator.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: dreams, grow, how-to, innovators, introspection, motivational, organisations, private-lives, research, visions

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#21

“Firestarters are able to make associations between similar situations and use lessons learned from one sphere of their lives to inform actions and thoughts in seemingly unrelated situations. They look for patterns of success, and then they pounce on situations that have proven to be generators of that success.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: awareness, life-goals, lifecoach, personal-development, quality-management, self-esteem, self-improvement, selfcare, success-books

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#22

“What others view as setbacks, Firestarters see as opportunities to learn and grow more.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: empowerment, grow-the-mindset, happiness, life-changes, life-lessons, lifecoach, management, quality-management, self-growth, selfcare

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#23

“Innovators are owners of the situation. They own it because they create it—quite literally. They embrace the world as it should match the vision in their heads. And when something is missing from that vision, they fill the gap.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: awareness, how-to, innovators, life-goals, personal-success, research, self-assessment, self-esteem, visions

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#24

“The road to your highest achievements leads through environments that support you.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: life-goals, lifecoach, opportunities, personal-development, quality-management, self-esteem, self-improvement, selfcare, success-books

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#25

“Old people were so dumb about social media, but this time it was to his advantage.”
― Karen McQuestion, The Moonlight Child

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#26

“There was something about facing an impossible task, breaking it down into small parts, and getting the job done that she found immensely satisfying.”
― Karen McQuestion, Half a Heart

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#27

“Do the thing you long to do and become the person you’re destined to be.”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

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#28

“Seems like sometimes life gives you what you need instead of what you want, if you know what I mean”
― Karen McQuestion, A Scattered Life

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#29

“It's good to plan, but don't let the planning take the place of doing.”
― Karen McQuestion, A Scattered Life

tags: humor, life

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#30

“Death was painful, not because people couldn't see their loved ones anymore, but because they couldn't communicate with them anymore.”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

tags: death-and-dying

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