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    Kyle Keyes
    “Your little buddy just gave me the greatest
       Christmas gift I've ever gotten.”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus
    tags: 21st-century, crime-thriller, fiction, intrigue, murder, mystery-thriller, suffering, thriller-novels
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Death is the ultimate test of faith.”
    ― 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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    “As I sat dumbfounded, seemingly paralyzed in my corner, resorting to my old, reliable strategy of scribbling when unsure of how to respond to Sanjit, Sanjit appended his counsel with a dose of silence – one reminiscent to that of a few days prior. The students looked upward and downward, fans to notes to pens to toes, outward and inward, peers to souls, and of course, toward the direction of the perceived elephant in the room, Sanjit’s books. Simultaneously, Sanjit confidently and patiently searched among the students before finding my eyes; once connected, the lesson moved forward.”
    ― Colin Phelan, The Local School
    tags: betterment, indian-education, journal, learning, life, personal-identity, poetry, soul, truths, value
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    Elizabeth George Speare
    “For Prudence was an entirely different child from the woebegone shrinking creature who had stood in the roadway outside the school. The tight little bud that was the real Prudence had steadily opened its petals in the sunshine of Kit’s friendship and Hannah’s gentle affection.”
    ― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
    tags: bud, hannah, kit, petals, prudence, sunshine
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
    tags: books, ships, the-night-circus
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    Robert Ludlum
    “Two people were not one,”
    ― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
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    Christopher Moore
    “It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism.”
    ― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea...”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
    tags: clean, cold, numb
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  • #10
    “When I was a cop me and my partner saw plenty of his handiwork. Yeah, we pulled his handiwork out a the water by the docks, we saw it in the bloody alleys, we saw it in cars burnt up on the side of the roads…”
    ― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss
    tags: challenging, corruption, devastation, dramatic, historical, pi, racial-slurs, soldier, threats, war
    51 likes

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    Michael Deeze
    “She cocked an eyebrow at me and said, “No. After the week I’ve just spent with you, there are going to be plenty of people that are gonna want to shoot you. You better get used to that.” Which hurt my feelings a little.”
    ― Michael Deeze, The Deathbed Confessions
    tags: action, agent, chicago, investigation, life-sentence, morally-grey, pain, serial-killer-thrillers, shared-secrets, unpredictable
    24 likes

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    Susan Rowland
    “The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: action, adventure, climatic, dramatic, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, mystery, profound, tense, unpredictable
    453 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
    906 likes

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    Max Nowaz
    “Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
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    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “Nothing looked disturbed…yet everything felt that way. The guy was on the bed, calmness itself, as though he’d decided on a moment’s lie-down and just zizzed off.”
    ― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows
    tags: dark, death, drama, intrigue, manipulation, mystery, paranormal, revenge, suspense, thriller
    114 likes

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    Alan Bradley
    “Life was about making sense out of the insensible. A ball of fire out of a clear blue sky? Must’ve been a meteorite, maybe debris from an airplane. Random flashes of light and color at night? A transformer blew up, you must’ve been dreaming, you’re talking crazy, quiet down, take your meds.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough
    tags: magic, out-of-control, shotgun, supernatural, supernatural-abilities, thriller, thriller-fiction, trauma, traumatic-events, violent
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    “He summoned you into the circle, Scott. For whatever reason, I don't know. But now you've left, you've become a loose thread. He won't sit back with the possibility you might cause his whole world to unravel around him.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: fear, impending-doom, warning
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “This stated, “Dear Mr. Prime Minister, I am delighted by the decision of your government to provide an infantry battalion for service in South Vietnam at the request of the Government of South Vietnam” The simple fact about this was that no such request was ever received by the Australian Government.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: documented, historical-fiction, history-resource, research, southeast-asia, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam, war-recount
    163 likes

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  • #19
    “In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.”
    ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
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    Joseph Heller
    “It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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    Charles Darwin
    “It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.”
    ― Charles Darwin
    tags: biology, evolution, harsh, illusion, natural-selection, science, struggle-for-life
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    Walter Farley
    “He opened his eyes to see the dented skull cap, still on the chair where Henry had left it. He looked at it a long while, knowing that it was far better to accept it than to turn away and forever fear it.”
    ― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion's Filly
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  • #23
    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    ― J. D. Salinger
    tags: salinger, stories
    6595 likes



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