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  • #1
    Kyle Keyes
    “Your little buddy just gave me the greatest
       Christmas gift I've ever gotten.”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus
    tags: 21st-century, crime-thriller, fiction, intrigue, murder, mystery-thriller, suffering, thriller-novels
    166 likes

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    Max Nowaz
    “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
    418 likes

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    Max Brooks
    “The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. "Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe." That blew me away. "Turn on the TV," he'd say. "What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products." Fuckin' A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.”
    ― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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  • #4
    Stephen Crane
    “Nature . . . did not seem cruel to him then, nor beneficent, nor treacherous, nor wise. But she was indifferent, flatly indifferent.”
    ― Stephen Crane, Open Boat
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  • #5
    Cornelia Funke
    “My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
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  • #6
    Jerry Spinelli
    “To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that’s a trophy enough for a guy’s ego, huh?”
    ― Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl
    37 likes

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  • #7
    Scott Westerfeld
    “Bubbly is bogus.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Pretties
    tags: pretties, scott-westerfeld, tally, tally-youngblood, uglies, zane
    30 likes

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  • #8
    Aldous Huxley
    “...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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  • #9
    Author Harold Phifer
    “Due to Mom’s condition, she would attack “The Walls” from sun-up to sun-down and day after day due to her mentalparanoia. With the death of her sister, no barrier, partition, fence, or any standing surface would’ve been safe. That kind of trauma would’ve created an endless loop of rages such as: “Oh no! Oh no! Not my sister, you Devil Ass Dawg! Oh Jesus, those Dead Dawg have come and taken my sister away! Help me Jesus! Help me get those Dawg out of my house! Lawd, I can’t take these Dawg howling anymore! Lawd Jesus, bring her back! Lawd, bring her back!”
    ― Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift
    tags: death, drama, family, godly, hope, praying, reality, sad, spiritual, suspense
    53 likes

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  • #10
    Dawn Chalker
    “Out of the bedroom window, Tara watches the silver moon in the night sky cast a faint glow on the pine trees.  Ian was right.  It’s time to move on.  Not to forget, but to forge ahead.”
    ― Dawn Chalker
    tags: accepting, connection, destiny, feelings, finding-yourself, future, love, motivation, moving-on, uplifting
    224 likes

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  • #11
    Steven Decker
    “And when I’d settled down, I considered the possibility that I wasn’t yet ready to ask for the love of anyone because I had yet to learn how to truly love myself.  ”
    ― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time
    tags: action, dark, different-worlds, drama, fascinating, literary, love, mysterious, mystery, rules
    69 likes

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  • #12
    “Deliverance is not scary—it is the most beautiful, loving act of Jesus. It is the moment someone finally walks into the freedom that was always meant for them.”
    ― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression
    tags: destiny, focus, god, grow, learn, love, peace, spirit, teaching, views
    652 likes

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  • #13
    “The first impressions with the ashram people
are these sparkling interior experiences. The eyeballs can be peepholes into the Milky Way and beyond. You may mumble under your breath that the ashram people could be on something.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: contemplating, deep, descriptive, enteratining-read, humorous, informative, insightful, love, spiritual-journey, unforgettable
    231 likes

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  • #14
    Sara Pascoe
    “What's that Einstein quote about expecting different results from the same person? I shouldn't feel bad - I'm here, aren't I, I'm not the parent who didn't even text. Or the one who locked themselves in their bedroom half of Christmas. Talking like this, it's become clear that we are the main parts. This has all been about us, the sisters. I hadn't realised. I tell my mouth not to share these thoughts and Dana offers me another cigarette.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “On the 16th of Febuary 1312, when Isabella was aged sixteen years, the couple were at their hunting lodge when Edward suddenly took Isabella into his arms and began to kiss her and pay her a lot of attention, slowly and tenderly.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
    tags: captivating, facts, fiction, france, historical, king-edward, political-obstacles, power, researched, royalty
    167 likes

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  • #16
    Shafter Bailey
    “Someone else is watching James Ed Hoskins, Ms. Jones. I don’t know who or why, but he is being watched.”
    ― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children
    tags: community-impact, education-revolution, educational-activism, enduring-values, ethical-governance, historical-education, leadership-challenges, reform-politics, societal-reflection, the-american-classroom
    63 likes

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  • #17
    J. Rose Black
    “Callan stared at the door. Raw and razed and present. A crucial moment—when he wasn’t the one with his finger on the trigger.”
    ― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath
    tags: adult-romance, drama, fun, laugh-out-loud, literary-fiction, love, ptsd, romance, satire, steamy
    163 likes

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  • #18
    Evelyn Waugh
    “There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
    tags: despair, evil, world
    91 likes

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  • #19
    Dennis Lehane
    “Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.”
    ― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
    tags: abuse, alcohol, darkness, death, depression, heartache, lonely, loss, mourning, sad, suicidal-ideation
    6 likes

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  • #20
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.”
    ― Rumi, مثنوی معنوی
    tags: pain
    278 likes

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  • #21
    Eoin Colfer
    “Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty"

    "Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex
    tags: foaly, mulch, tasty
    54 likes

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  • #22
    Susanna Kaysen
    “My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.”
    ― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
    tags: emptiness
    65 likes

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  • #23
    Abraham Lincoln
    “It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abraham-lincoln, courage
    56 likes



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