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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
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle has been ordered to wipe the Swakop River Radio station off the map!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
    tags: drama, exciting, family, fiction, finding-happinesss, honour, living, military, philosophy, soul-searching
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    Steven Decker
    “Even the youngest must have known they were now steaming away from the country of their birth, never to return. They’d all suffered through the trauma of the war and the loss of their parents and were presently being further traumatized by their banishment to Australia.”
    ― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live
    tags: adventure, bitter, classic-historical-fiction, hope, meaningful, mystery, overcoming-adversity, post-war-england, soul, traumatic-childhood
    29 likes

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    Alan Bradley
    “Magic is hard on our world. Pulling it in is really violent and damaging. The more we use it, the more we stretch out the membrane between this world and the one we draw it in from. And the other side…' She looked at Maldonado and he nodded. 'Well, it’s toxic.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough
    tags: action-packed, conflict, deception, emotionally-charged, explore, fast-paced, fear, murder, plot-turns, profound
    84 likes

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    “...if I did not try to understand the psychology of people, well I think my ballads would be missing something. I think trying to become the characters…is the key to writing them…”
    ― Cade Mengler, The Companions
    tags: ancient, curse, dark-fantasy-horror, demon, difficult-situation, haunting, internal-struggles, reality, secrets, tragedy
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    Michael Parker
    “Never Give Up!”
    ― Michael Parker
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    K. Ritz
    “Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, dramatic, exciting, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit
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    “Today I plan to smile a lot, only so people who know me will be freaked the fuck out.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: daily-goals, funny, humour, humour-quote, humourosly-inspirational, smile
    237 likes

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    Lionel Shriver
    “For Celia, her whole surround was animate, and each tapioca lump had a dense, nauseating little soul.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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    Robert Jordan
    “If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Es natural condición de las mujeres desdeñar a quien las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha
    tags: love, women
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    Ralph Ellison
    “remember the short formal sermons intoned from the pulpit there, rendered in smooth articulate tones, with calm assurance purged of that wild emotion of the crude preachers most of us knew in our home towns and of whom we were deeply ashamed,”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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    Malcolm Gladwell
    “The thing we want to learn about a stranger is fragile. If we tread carelessly it will crumple under our feet... The right way to talk to strangers is with caution and humility.”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
    tags: communication-skills
    21 likes

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    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It’s the people who claim that they’re good, or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of. - Boq (WICKED)”
    ― Gregory Maguire
    tags: gregory-maguire, wicked
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