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#1

“And believe it or not, we did end up going to the bottom of the ocean, just not for the reasons I had wanted to go there in the first place.”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: action, dark, fascinating, fast-paced, fear, gripping, love, mysterious, mystery, rules

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#2

“Colonel Nguyen Van Tan said, “Sauget et Sang, you shall start making amends by confessing your crimes in public here, in this courtroom when the reporters from news services around the world arrive!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: bad, dangerous, deeds, divided, division, ethics, good, greed, helpless, humanity

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#3

“The craggy lines that made up the character in his face now seemed like scars of defeat, inflicted on him over time.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: defeated, philosophical-reflection

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#4

“Before I started killing people, I like to think I was a fairly normal kid.”
― Alan Bradley

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#5

“ 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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#6

“From the surrounding oak trees it seemed as if a name was whispered. ‘He is of the trees, his name is Xylon.”
― Robert Reid, The Empress:

tags: betrayal, dark, fear, hatred, lies, literary-fiction, loneliness, queen, unity, war-and-military-fiction

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#7

“Metal makes everything magical. Just ask a unicorn.”
― Sybrina Durant, Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically by the Elemental Dragons

tags: chemical-properties, chemistry-books, children-s-mystery-books, curiosity, dragons, fantasy, learning, metals, periodic-table, unicorns

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#8

“Never Give Up!”
― Michael Parker

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#9

“was going to say anyway. And he got to talk first because he had won the coin toss—heads—a victory over Maura. But at the moment he was wishing he had called tails. As Greg began going over his opening statement for the ninth time, the chairperson of the School Committee said, “For the next item under New Business, we have a proposal about . . . a comic-book club at Ashworth School. Who’s speaking on this?” Greg bounced to his feet and managed to say, “I . . . I am.” The chairperson pointed. “Please come up to the table and talk into the microphone.” Maura thought Greg looked very nice tonight in his blazer and his gray slacks. His black eye was almost gone, and she was pretty sure he had even tried to brush his hair. As Greg went down the center aisle, he got a good look at Mrs. Davenport sitting in the second row with the other principals. She wasn’t smiling.”
― Andrew Clements, Lunch Money

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#10

“The difference was that the white man in the South spoke his hatred in clear, clean, concise terms, whereas the white man in the new country hid his hatred behind stories of wisdom and bravado, with false smiles of sincerity and stories of Jesus Christ and other nonsense that he tossed about like confetti in the Pottstown parade.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

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#11

“I honestly don’t know if the world would be better or worse if we all held ourselves to the vows of our youth.”
― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

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#12

“As Ellis Cose famously raged: "I have done everything I was supposed to do. I have stayed out of trouble with the law, gone to the right schools, and worked myself nearly to death. What more do they want? Why in God's name won't they accept me as a full human being?”
― James W. Loewen, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

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#13

“He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

tags: faith, fate, religion-and-philoshophy

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#14

“A lot of people—young and old— have not done a very good job of taking care of our country so we can enjoy living in it. Almost everywhere today you see the marks of the stupid and the careless who are ruining what we should all take care of for our own pleasure—and our own good.”
― Munro Leaf, Who Cares? I Do.

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#15

“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: excuse, life, musings, photos, writers, writers-life

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#16

“Prepare to experience a paradigm shift.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: capsule-method, confident-travel, intentional-living, packing-system, style-upgrade, travel-mindset, travel-transformation

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#17

“There was no room for any more self-pity.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

tags: character-quote, crime, goodreads-quotes, historical-mystery, mystery, mystery-novels, mystery-suspense, resilience, wartime-fiction

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#18

“I would caution you—ambition is a deadly disease.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: ambition, christian-fantasy, dark-fantasy, darkness, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, political-fantasy, quote-of-the-day

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#19

“Cole felt something deep inside of him snap. He was done with thinking. He was done being afraid. There was no room for fear when someone’s life was at stake.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

tags: character-arc, courage, crime-thriller, dark-suspense, fbi-profiler, hero-moment, trauma-recovery

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#20

“Eve laughs. Its a laugh somewhere between laughing out loud and laughing with pity. If we live in a vulvocracy now”
― Fons Burger, 2125 - The Hibernator: What if you wake up in 100 years?

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#21

“The supposition was that the difference in energy when n (or v) changes by one is therefore equal to hv, the product of the Planck constant and the vibration frequency was always derived using these pre-revolution mechanics. This was, of course, dependent on gravity having an effect on an atomic level, while acknowledging that it does not. Absurd right? But for a transition from level n to level n+ one due to absorption of a photon, the frequency of the photon has nothing to do with Planck…”
“Atom, for god’s sake, stop it!” Hannah interrupts.
“Stop? Stop what?”
“Why do you do this to people?” Hannah says, causing Lylitte to laugh, and the older woman to look at Hannah curiously.
“What he was going to eventually say is that we’re teaching the stem cells to sing their songs louder so that they harmonize and teach their melody to the host, once it’s introduced,” Billy explains.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: bio-tech-sci-fi, future-science, hard-sci-fi, nerd-lit, physics-nerd, quantum-talk, regenerative-medicine, science-in-fiction, stem-cells, stem-reads

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#22

“Be as a tower, that, firmly set,
Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

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#23

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

tags: education, marriage

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#24

“The moment was all; the moment was enough.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#25

“Henry told me once that his doctor thinks he's a new kind of human. You know, sort of the next step in evolution.'
Grandma shakes her head. ‘That is just as bad as being a demon. Goodness, Clare, why in the world would you want to marry such a person? Think of the children you would have! Popping into next week and back before breakfast!”
― Audrey niffenegger

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#26

“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

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#27

“Life is funny that way. Sometimes the dumbest thing you do turns out to be the smartest.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

tags: brain, middle-grade, science, science-fiction, scientists

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