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    Sara Pascoe
    “What’s “ague?”‘ Raya asked.
    ‘Malaria.’ Oscar said.
    ‘Oh, great.’
    ‘Hey, you want plague? They got that too.’ Raya ignored
    the cat.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, coming-of-age, coming-of-age-fiction, engaging, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, occult, supernatural, young-adult
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    Frank Lambert
    “Time’s voice is everything you can physically experience. It is a favourite smell, a first taste from childhood, a vision shared with one you love. Time touches you as if it had fingers that possess infinite knowledge of how to caress with utmost beauty and you in turn can touch Time. You can feel it’s breath as if it was your own sleeping child’s.”
    ― Frank Lambert, Ghost Doors
    tags: dark, dark-fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, ghost-stories, paranormal, teen-ya, underworld, young-adult
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    K. Ritz
    “Mead.
    O sweet elixir,
    Ye bless the lips and steal the wits.
     ”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, dramatic, engaging, exciting, fantasy, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit
    852 likes

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    Chad Boudreaux
    “Mize knew that the outcome of today’s hearing was all about politics. Lady Justice wasn’t blind. She was wearing see-no-evil lenses and had been cursed with a more troubling disability—muteness. There existed no doubt in his mind that political machinations had suffocated legal precedent on this day.”
    ― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
    tags: drama, fiction, investigate, mystery, page-turner, plot-driven, puppeteering, survival, thriller, treachery
    74 likes

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    Andri E. Elia
    “Sunny, a silver boy of nine, daydreams of rescuing two princesses: “The princesses’ savior was a gallant knight. No! A prince! The valiant prince was surprisingly young. And silvered.”
    ― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
    tags: adventure, coming-of-age, fiction, love, mystery, sci-fi, space, space-opera, teen-ya, wizardry
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?” he asked. Yellow hair like hers was rare among the Greeks. Though some people say that Helen of Troy . . .”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: exquisite, governance, historical, history, justice, political-intrigue, realistic, romance, vibrant
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  • #7
    John Rachel
    “Like the blind man said as he wandered into a cannibal village . . .

    “Alright! The country fair must be right up ahead. I smell barbecue!”
    ― John Rachel
    tags: barbecue, blindness, cannibal
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    Ammar Habib
    “We are the sum of our deeds, and that is the end of it.”
    ― Ammar Habib, The Orphans of Kashmir
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    Wilkie Collins
    “The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect--it is always cautious in the wrong place.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
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    Franz Kafka
    “Writing is a deeper sleep than death.
    Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
    I can't be dragged from my desk at night.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Eric Carle
    “We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
    ― Eric Carle
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    Robert Munsch
    “I'll love you forever,
    I'll like you for always,
    As long as I'm living,
    my baby you'll be.”
    ― Robert N. Munsch, Love You Forever
    tags: family
    633 likes

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    Gayle Forman
    “Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.”
    ― Gayle Forman , Just One Day
    tags: wilhem
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