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#1

“She's just one of the plethora of women you rotate through your bed." Lily looked scared out of her mind as the queen changed direction and stalked her. "I will not allow you to besmirch the Esca name with your filthy plot to steal the prince.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: adventure, drama, fiction, genetics, political, sci-fi, science-fiction, supremacist, war

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#2

“The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty, and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to make up its mind.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, historical-fantasy, magic, occult, supernatural, teenagers, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal, young-adult

456 likes

#3

“Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, exciting, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit

937 likes

#4

“Nothing ever really happens, you know. Life is infinitesimal and incremental and inconsequential.”
― Sherman Alexie, War Dances

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#5

“All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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#6

“And how easily a hand becomes a fist.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

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#7

“You can’t blame anyone else, not the plan’s architect, not your commanding officer, no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

8 likes

#8

“as if he were trying to escape the smell of her words as if the air from her talking came into his mouth and filled it puffed it up with poison so the brain was put to sleep and he could do nothing with it only react in his flesh.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter

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#9

“Unbelief, which causes fear, always limits God's use of a life.”
― Tim LaHaye, Spirit-Controlled Temperament

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#10

“The steps leading to the porch looked worn, cracked, and unpainted, ready for a nice hot fire.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

375 likes

#11

“It was a Sunday morning, a perfect day for fishing. I had asked several other guys, but knew they all had their own plans. To everyone else, it was just another day of fishing.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

tags: crime, noir-fiction, private-investigator

70 likes

#12

“Time was being stripped from her one second at a time.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

tags: drama, dramatic, fiction, funny, heartwarming, insight, intrigue, sad, thought-provoking, thriller

118 likes

#13

“If there is one suject that has sparked disagreement among food writers and home cooks more than any other, it is the best way to boil an egg...you never want to actually boil eggs, but rather, gently simmer them”
― Irma S. Rombauer, Joy of Cooking

51 likes

#14

“#metooasachild”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

tags: metooasachild

950 likes

#15

“I was never yours, and you were never mine, Maven. And not because of him, either. I thought you were perfect, I thought you were strong and brave and good. I thought you were better than him."
Better than Cal. Those are words Maven thought no one would ever say. He flinches, and for a second, I can see the boy I used to know. A boy that doesn't exist anymore.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

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#16

“Things seemed to consist not of wood and stone but of some grandiose and infinitely tender immorality that, the moment it came in contact with him, turned into a deep moral shock.”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities: Volume I

6 likes

#17

“The news just came in from the County of Keck
That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck
Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck.
This may not seem very important, I know, but it
Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.”
― Dr. Seuss

45 likes

#18

“Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: inspirational, motivational, power

90 likes

#19

“And professionalism is remembering that if you speak at all, you will speak the truth.”
― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life

tags: career-values, integrity, lawyer-life, legal-memoir, professional-ethics, reputation, truth-matters

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#20

“Waiting for the correct time to descend for cocktails, Mary sat on her bed and reviewed her impressions of the house party one by one. Belinda Choudhry M. P. she knew least. As mother of murdered Perdita, she was sure to be a volatile addition.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, insight, mystery, profound, unpredictable

392 likes

#21

“Happy memories are like lifesavers, keeping us buoyant amid stormy seas and changing times.”
― Rich DiSilvio

tags: inspirational-quotes, memories, reflection-on-life, reflections, uplifting-quotes

64 likes

#22

“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

57 likes

#23

“She's a gift, you see,
rare and precious
as wild grass
or heron in flight;
unpredictable,
beyond imitation,
gemstone perfect.
”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

tags: confidence, destiny, explore, journey, opportunity, power, pride, satisfaction, values, wander

39 likes

#24

“The most generous beds are the ones where every harvest makes room for the next.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

tags: companion-planting, garden-rhythm, grow-efficiently, harvest-more, kitchen-garden, succession-planting, vegetable-gardening

66 likes

#25

“one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: 10th Anniversary Edition

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#26

“you can never love someone as much as you miss them.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#27

“The “catharsis hypothesis”—that aggression builds up inside us until it’s healthily released—dates back to the Greeks, was revived by Freud, and gained steam during the “let it all hang out” 1960s of punching bags and primal screams. But the catharsis hypothesis is a myth—a plausible one, an elegant one, but a myth nonetheless. Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn’t soothe anger; it fuels it.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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#28

“She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

tags: humor, performing-femininity

56 likes

#29

“Dylan Bennet Klebold was born brilliant. He started school a year early, and by third grade was enrolled in the CHIPS program: Challenging High Intellectual Potential Students. Even among the brains, Dylan stood out as a math prodigy. The early start didn’t impede him intellectually, but strained his shyness further.”
― Dave Cullen, Columbine

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