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    Dennis K. Hausker
    “You don't know what you can accomplish if you never try.”
    ― Dennis K. Hausker, Echo Three Tango
    tags: action-adv, romance, sci-fi
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “She must feel like Lucifer’s frigid breath is running down the back of her delicate neck.”
    ― 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
    390 likes

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  • #3
    Voltaire
    “Injustice in the end produces independence.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: cause-and-effect, independence, injustice, suffering
    181 likes

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    Ian McEwan
    “...[W]riting stories not only involved secrecy, it also gave her all the pleasures of miniaturisation. A world could be made in five pages....The childhood of a spoiled prince could be framed within half a page, a moonlit dash through sleepy villages was one rhythmically empathic sentence, falling in love would be achieved in a single word—a glance.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
    18 likes

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    Samuel Beckett
    “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
    tags: death, existentialism, time
    206 likes

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    Max Nowaz
    “It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the last few days for Adam. His only worry before finding the book had been how to keep his girlfriend Linda without marrying her in the process. A contest he had lost.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
    tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller
    421 likes

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    William Kely McClung
    “Yeah, nerdship could be inherited as surely as any knighthood”
    ― William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven
    tags: action-packed, adventure, exciting, full-package, heroes, intrigue, mysterious, secrets, suspense, thrilling
    59 likes

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    Susan Rowland
    “The girl flinched, even lying down. Mary continued through gritted teeth. “Murder can’t be walked away from. Just like you can’t walk away from Viktor. He’ll find you if you run. Richard can’t protect you if Viktor believes you have his babies.”
    ― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds
    tags: action, adventure, drama, fast-paced, fiction-novel, murder-mystery, thriller
    361 likes

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    Carolyn M. Bowen
    “Life was better than he expected with his new Italian family inheritance, and it felt good to take a deep breath without fear of someone attacking him or his family.”
    ― Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller
    tags: drama, fiction, mystery, noir, organised-crime, page-turner, secrets, suspense, tense, violent
    158 likes

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    Catherine Marshall
    “Dear God,' I said inside myself, 'when I came here, maybe I was partly running off from home for fun and freedom and adventure. But I have a notion that You had something else in mind in letting me come. Anyway if You can use me here in this Cove, well, here I am.”
    ― Catherine Marshall, Christy
    9 likes

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  • #11
    Jean Craighead George
    “Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”
    ― Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain
    1406 likes

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    Johanna Spyri
    “two,”
    ― Johanna Spyri, Heidi
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
    tags: edward
    3192 likes

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    Art Spiegelman
    “Yes, life always takes the side of life, and somehow the victims are blamed. But it wasn’t the best people who survived, nor did the best ones die. It was random!”
    ― Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
    tags: randomness
    85 likes

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    Carson McCullers
    “Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.”
    ― Carson McCullers, Reflections in a Golden Eye
    tags: devil, fear, god
    8 likes



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