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    Raz Mihal
    “Moments of divine love transform the black-and-white of existence into a living palette of infinite colours.”
    ― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her
    tags: divinelovecolors, infinitepalette, transcendentmoments
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    Andri E. Elia
    “Night vision. Unclip your bows. Ready. Fly.” ”
    ― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand
    tags: change, courage, curiosity, exploration, good-vs-evil, gripping, love, sci-fi, thrilling, violence
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    Alan Bradley
    “Look around! Look what we’ve done to the world. We fucked everything up. In a few years it’s going to be unlivable. We don’t deserve to be stewards of this planet. And that pales to the things we do to each other. We’re monsters, Sander, and someone needs to end it.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough
    tags: dangerous, dark-realm, page-turner, paranormal, scary, supernatural, suspenseful, tragedy, vivid, wild
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    Adam Scott Huerta
    “GLOBAL TEMPERATURES HAVE LOWERED BY ONE DEGREE. GLOBEWIDE NATURAL INGREDIENT SHORTAGE IN EFFECT AS OF THIS MESSAGE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ”
    ― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black
    tags: absurd, conflicting-desires, desire, disorientation, existential-despair, exploring, freedom, self-doubt, unease, vivid
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    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “But when his accusers rose to speak they brought none of the charges I was expecting; they merely had several points of disagreement with him about their peculiar religion and about someone called Jesus, a dead man whom Paul alleged to be alive … Jonathan read on, fascinated by the story, there were so many interesting details. But then he paused – was it the true story it said it was?”
    ― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness
    tags: alone, exhilarating, exorcism, hostile, lies, love, manor-house, psychic, tragedy, truth
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    Steven Decker
    “I don’t think so, said the captain. Their ship is clearly outfitted with weapons systems that it did not have when it left Terrene over 600 years ago. And they are pointed directly at us.”
    ― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time
    tags: action, contemporary, death, drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, general, past
    62 likes

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    K. Ritz
    “Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
                Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, tis fast in stone.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit
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    Andrew Davidson
    “Don't be wasting your sympathy on me, kid. I did pretty damn well, I'll tell you what. You snag a woman like that, you don't ask what you did to deserve it. You just hope she never wises up and changes her mind.”
    ― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water
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    Thomas Hardy
    “As Antigone said, I am neither a dweller among men nor ghosts.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
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    “The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.”
    ― Thomas Malory
    tags: arthurian, love
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
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    Koushun Takami
    “Loving someone always requires you to not love others.”
    ― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale
    tags: love, survival
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