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#1

“There are two types of men, Karolina. The ones who can admire the greatness of the little flower. Or the ones who try to control it.”
― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

tags: avenger, dark-magic, falsely-accused, fantasy, magical-world, mythical-creatures, on-the-run, romance, underworld, vampires

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#2

“Let me make two remarks. First I concentrate on the task ahead for 2016. I’m quite busy with that—thank you very much. And I’m looking with great interest in the American election campaign.’ For the second time during their press conference, the clicking sounds of the cameras was deafening.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: admiration, democracy, emotional, obama, policy, research, respect, scandals, service

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#3

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

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#4

“As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning blow!” (Giap, 1990)”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: american-army, commandos, defence, division, french-army, helpless, invasion, political, special-forces, war

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#5

“Domination was and is at the heart of penis politics: a man maintaining power over a woman through gender or sex-based control…. Andrew (Cuomo) was the master of the art of penis politics. In Washington, he’d given me a job and then worked to undermine me in it. He made me feel as if I were no good at my job and, thus, totally dependent on him to keep it…. I had never seen anyone push so hard, day, noon, and night… But I was soon to learn that, as Andrew pushed up and up, some of us would be pushed aside.”
― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

tags: coming-of-age, compelling, entertaining, gender, glass-ceiling, human-weakness, life-story, politics, power, pros

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#6

“When a trapper entered the valley, I reflected back on my life as an Indian. "I'm sure as an Indian living on the plains, I trapped animals for their fur and for their meat, I took what I needed for survival, but doing it for profit somehow rubbed me the wrong way”
― John-Paul Cernak, The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower

tags: environmental, generational, hippies, magic, marijuana, mystery, natural-world, seventies, sixties, unfaithfulness

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#7

“I saw something sticking out of Sloan’s leg after he fell. I didn’t know what it was and didn’t want to ask. Maybe I thought we were the same inside as we are on the outside, a bit like a carrot or something like that.”
― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons

tags: action, ai, danger, drama, dystopian, fantasy, horror

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#8

“We are narrow thinkers, we are noisy thinkers, and it is very easy to improve upon us.”
― ajay agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

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#9

“Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

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#10

“Intellectually, he is like interstellar space - a vast vacuum occasionally crossed by homeless, wandering clichés.”
― John Gunther, Inside U.S.A

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#11

“Awakening, basically, is a reversal of this: the patient ceases to feel the presence of illness and the absence of the world, and comes to feel the absence of his illness and the full presence of the world.”
― Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

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#12

“And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

tags: decisions, moving-on

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#13

“Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?"

"I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

tags: doing-good, war, weapon

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#14

“In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.”
― John Irving, Until I Find You

tags: growing-up

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#15

“Eleanor was an orphan at the age of 10. She went to live with her maternal Grandma Hall, a bitter and biblically strict woman who nonetheless struggled to control her children. Eleanor had to endure some uncles who drank to excess and possibly abused her. For protection, her grandmother or an aunt installed three heavy locks on Eleanor’s bedroom door. A girlfriend who slept over asked Eleanor about the locks. She said they were “to keep my uncles out.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

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

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#16

“Oh, for goodness’ sake… Get over yourself.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: character-growth, friendship, funny-dialogue, humor, kids-lit, life-lessons, middle-grade, talking-animals, tough-love

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#17

“Are you really a reporter?” asked Brown. “You already asked me that. Come back to Levita, take the pardon.”  “I doubt I’ll live long enough to get there,” said Brown bitterly. “I hope you survive. You are a fighter. And we have the antidote for your habit on Levita. I suggest you take a vacation. There’s nothing much that’s going to happen here.” With that she left, leaving Brown more confused than ever. He was a father, he had a son. And, the Levitians had a cure for his drug-addled body.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: contemporary-fiction, intrigue, manipulation, mystery, suspense, thriller

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#18

“You don’t need to exaggerate, hype, or over-optimize your message. You just need to mean it.”
― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

tags: authenticity, brand-messaging, brand-trust, business-leadership, clear-communication, marketing-nonfiction, reader-takeaway, truth-in-marketing

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#19

“ Mary fought a savage impulse to slam the door on the couple. But they were too interesting to ignore in the circumstances of the murder. She caught sight of Richard spitting out a mouthful of hair.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, mysterious, mystery, noir-mystery, suspense, tense, thriller

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#20

“Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: descriptive-prose, lust, strippers

348 likes

#21

“All right, see you then. Auwaa” — peace, said King Kaskae.”
― J.L. Marrain, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

tags: adventure-reads, culture-and-language, fantasy, found-family, hopeful-moments, new-worlds, portal-fantasy, ya

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#22

“You must enjoy the time and make the most of the experience because time slips away and before you realize it your youth has passed, and you are old.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

tags: adult-fiction, coming-of-age, erotic-romance, goodreads-quotes, life-advice, save-this-quote, wanderlust-reads, youth-and-time

138 likes

#23

“Unconditional Love conquers all!”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

tags: inspirational, love

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#24

“The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell. ”
― Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

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#25

“ME”
― Andrew Clements, Things Not Seen

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#26

“In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

tags: britain, englishmen, knighthood

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#27

“Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

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#28

“I recently heard of someone studying the ellipsis (or three dots) for a PhD. And, I have to say, I was horrified. The ellipsis is the black hole of the punctuation universe, surely, into which no right-minded person would willingly be sucked, for three years, with no guarantee of a job at the end. ”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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