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#1

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

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#2

“She likes his wide, easy smile, the texture of his skin, the thick fair hair on his arms, almost like fur, the wholesome soapy smell of him. And she likes his height. He's taller by far than any British man she's been with; it's excessive, unnecessary, gorgeous. Invisibly, she sighs. Of course, she always knew it was temporary: that's the deal with G.I.'s.”
― Lesley Glaister, A Particular Man

tags: betrayal, emotional-thriller, fiction, grief, historical, mistakes, powerful, secrets, survivor-s-guilt, truth

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#3

“She gasped. In his eyes, in just a heartbeat or two, she saw herself for what she was: a creature of this broken world, herself bearing the burden of the breaking.”
― Jack Borden, The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel

tags: adventurous, aging-sickness, bravery, epic-fantasy, fast-paced, killian, legendary-quest, magical-dust, resilience, sibling-relationship

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#4

“What is real for us is what we observe and recognize. We create our own experiences by our recognition and imagination, and we modulate the energies with our emotions.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

tags: awareness, beings-of-light, energy, infinite, intuition, quantum-state, raising-vibrations, self-awareness, vibrational-energy

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#5

“Death rides on all of our shoulders from the day we are born.”
― 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

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#6

“McDonalds? Never heard of it. We are going to have to find out where it is and take the whole family.”
― R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach

tags: childhood-innocence, curiosity, farm-life, great-aunt, historical-fiction, identity-struggles, moral-dilemmas, personal-growth, poignant, trust

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#7

“If one day, a bhailach...ye should meet a verra large mouse named Michael-ye'll tell him your grandsire sends his regards.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

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#8

“the negative press about Southam’s work had gotten the attention of the NIH, which funded his research and required its investigators to get consent for all studies involving humans. In response to the Southam situation, the NIH investigated all their grantee institutions and found that only nine out of fifty-two had any policy in place to protect the rights of research subjects.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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#9

“An overhead light blinked and extinguished.
Armitage drew the pistol with his right hand. He swung and aimed, checking there were no innocent people obstructing the way. None. Fired a single shot. It sailed over a plant and table setting. The round hit an inch from the watcher's heart. On impact the brown-haired assailant tipped. Jake ducked. A table toppled. The watcher groaned as the force of the momentum pushed him toward the floor-to-ceiling glass wall.
A second table collapsed, plates thrown asunder. Jake stepped forward, arm stretched and gun straight. A waitress hugged herself, crying. Two more male patrons hit the floor and crawled between chairs.”
― Simon W. Clark, The Russian Ink

tags: action, agent, escape, full-throttle, gun, life-and-death, saint-petersburg, shot-fired, spy-thriller, the-russian-ink

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#10

“I have been trying to think clearly about everything and to use all this distance to advantage. And here is what I've discovered. I don't love you, Ishmael.”
― David Guterson

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#11

“I'm not good with children," the god confessed. "Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

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#12

“I'm playing 'chicken' with a kid called 'Robin.' I don't know why he's showing off. I don't know why I'm going along with it. I don't even know where we're going. It could be a robbery. Or prison break. A gang war. Or free donuts at Lenny's. He sees that Bat-signal in the sky and takes off. Like a bird out of Hell. And he just expects me to follow him. And I do.”
― Chuck Dixon, Batgirl: Year One

tags: barbara-gordon, batgirl, batgirl-year-one, dc-comics, robin

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#13

“The stream of orbs rises in the sky and floats northeast. I shiver despite the climate, wondering what kind of magick controls them. If Lucifer allowed them to be released, it cannot be good. And what if, whoever is orchestrating this, their aim for me is as Mother foresees? Are we flying into a trap?”
― Tricia Copeland, To Be a Fae Queen

tags: adventure, curses, enchanting, fantasy, fiction, intrigue, magic, magical, magical-realm, unpredictable

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#14

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma

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#15

“t felt like stepping into a spa, or a dream, or a memory she hadn’t known she missed.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

tags: action, fantasy, fast-paced, intense, psychological, scary, supernatural, tense, thriller, uspense

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#16

“Callan sucked in a breath. As a sniper, he’d been trained by the Marines to know and recognize moments.

Moments when all the training—his focused mind, muscle memory, weapon knowledge . . .

When all the preparation—target reconnaissance, angle of attack, position scouting . . .

When all the setup—hidden amid the terrain, barrel aimed, trajectory known . . .

When everything came together in one crucial moment—when the sniper squeezed the trigger and took his shot.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

tags: adult-romance, adversity, drama, love, ptsd, relationship, romance, steamy-romcom, suspense

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#17

“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

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#18

“People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

tags: misery

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#19

“You return to that earlier time armed with the present, and no matter how dark that world was, you do not leave it unlit. You take your adult self with you. It is not to be a reliving, but a rewitnessing.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

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#20

“Then I noticed, in all my pain and sickness,what music it was that like crackled and boomed on the
sound-track, and it was Ludwig van, the last movement of the
Fifth Symphony, and I creeched like bezoomny at that. "Stop!"
I creeched. "Stop, you grahzny disgusting sods. It's a sin, that's
what it is, a filthy unforgivable sin, you bratchnies!”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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#21

“I keep that memory somewhere inside me—where it’s safe. I take it out and look at it when I need to. As if it were a photograph.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

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#22

“You plan the wars you masters of men plan the wars and point the way and we will point the gun.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

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#23

“It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without being shocked. No one has the right to spend their life without being offended. Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it up. Nobody has to open it. And if you open it and read it, you don't have to like it. And if you read it and you dislike it, you don't have to remain silent about it. You can write to me, you can complain about it, you can write to the publisher, you can write to the papers, you can write your own book. You can do all those things, but there your rights stop. No one has the right to stop me writing this book. No one has the right to stop it being published, or sold, or bought, or read.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: freedom-of-speech, reading, writing

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