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#1

“Oh, so now I'm getting in trouble for things I didn't tell anyone I didn't know?”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

tags: action-and-adventure-literature, emotional, family, love, murder, page-turner, self-discovery, survival, tense, violence

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#2

“With our beloved prairie voles the female has her ovulation induced by the smell of male urine. It’s a sure sign there’s a male nearby and so her body gets ready for mating. The exact opposite of a human female getting a whiff of urinals in a nightclub and her vagina falling off in disgust”
― Sara Pascoe

tags: sara-pascoe, women-s-humor

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#3

“If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: androids, artificial-humans, dystopian, exciting, intrigue, invasion, mission, planets, revolution, secrets

456 likes

#4

“You too, Caesar?”
― Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

tags: cheating, life-lessons, powerlessness, sad-but-true, tough-times, treachery

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#5

“The machines were simple and harmless, developed by a human genius who set in motion something, which ultimately had far reaching consequences.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

tags: adventure, ai, artificial-intelligence, challenge, fiction, tags-action-packed, thrilling

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#6

“I want to propose a toast!" Taking a spoon he noisily tapped it against the crystal glass. "Everyone!" He thundered, the large amount of whiskey he had consumed making him reckless. "To Victor, Ste. Genevieve's own inventor and my best friend, all the happiness in the world!" The happy crowd shouted their approval. "And to the ever, ever fair beauty Celena..." His voice cracking under the strain, and he wondered if he should stop now, before he embarrassed himself, before he made some horrible declaration.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: drama, fiction, historical-victorian-romance, history, intrigue, literary-romance, love, romance

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#7

“A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: bravery, dauntless, four, tris

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#8

“The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit: The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco [A Heartwarming Tale: The Velveteen Rabbit's Journey]

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#9

“The French dine to gratify, we to appease appetite,” observed John Sanderson. “We demolish dinner, they eat it.” The general misconception back home was that French food was highly seasoned, but not at all, wrote James Fenimore Cooper. The genius in French cookery was “in blending flavors and in arranging compounds in such a manner as to produce … the lightest and most agreeable food.” The charm of a French dinner, like so much in French life, was the “effect.”
― David McCullough, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

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#10

“In the 1960s it was in Maniema that thirteen Italian airmen of the United Nations were killed and eaten, their body parts smoked and made available at local markets for weeks after the slaughter.”
― Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

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#11

“We here see in two distant countries a similar relation between plants and insects of the same families, though the species of both are different. When man is the agent in introducing into a country a new species this relation is often broken:”
― Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World: The Voyage of the Beagle

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#12

“Suddenly blinded by dazzling light filling the room, they hear a series of clicks echoing around them. As the purple gloom returns and with it their sight, little red dots dance across their chests.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

tags: different, exciting, fantasy, original, science-fiction, thrilling, unique

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#13

“You won’t be able to start your training either, and you won’t be able to meet your true teacher and return home, Theo, until you defeat your own inner dragon.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: charactergrowth, defeatyourdragon, herowithin, innerwork, metaphysicalfiction, spiritualjourney, thepythagorean

139 likes

#14

“Stand in the machine there, let’s see what state your internal organs are in. The images will be projected on screen, and I can go through the diagnosis with you, step by step.” Brown did as he was told and soon images of his vital organs appeared on the screen.  As you can see, your heart is slightly enlarged and your lungs and kidneys are not in good shape either. Have you been experiencing any pain lately?” “Not that I can think of. What can you do to help?” “Difficult to say, you see you are dying” said the Doctor. You can see the discolouration in your kidneys.” Brown strained his eyes.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, action-and-adventure, action-thriller, drama, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, suspense-thriller

465 likes

#15

“Enough, gentlemen, enough! Show a New World marsupial a little respect”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animal-adventure, character-voice, funny-books, humor, kids-books, middle-grade, read-aloud, snappy-dialogue, talking-animals

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#16

“I had come to Europe looking to learn about love and life—and men.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

tags: adult-romance, book-quotes, coming-of-age, love-and-life, self-discovery, travel-reads, wanderlust-books

124 likes

#17

“What other problems do American soldiers face when hunting down these fanatical killers?”
“A person’s senses are more acute when being hunted,” Reid said. “More adept at avoiding capture.”
These guys are good, Blake thought as a bead of sweat trickled down the small of his back. What have I gotten myself into?”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: action-packed, anticipation, entertaining, fascinating, fast-paced-thriller, government, humour, political-thriller, spy-novel

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#18

“The people at the center of these stories of power couples mostly choose to see their own motives as selfless. In Elizabeth Edwards’ autobiography Resilience, she wrote of her marriage to John, U.S. senator from North Carolina, ‘We were lovers, life companions, crusaders, side by side, for a vision of what the country could be.’ When she found out he was cheating on her, the crusading together became ‘the glue’ that kept them together. ‘I grabbed hold of it. I needed to,’ Edwards wrote. ‘Although I no longer knew what I could trust between the two of us, I knew I could trust in our work together.’ She wanted ‘an intact family fighting for causes more important than any one of us.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationships

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#19

“You don’t need to exaggerate, hype, or over-optimize your message. You just need to mean it.”
― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

tags: authenticity, brand-messaging, brand-trust, business-leadership, clear-communication, marketing-nonfiction, reader-takeaway, truth-in-marketing

79 likes

#20

“I’m still the man here. You’re my wife,’ I walked forward, she had to back away, she looked scared. Good, it serves her right for once”
― Brian J. Twiddy, Blessing

tags: control-and-power, dark-fiction, disturbing-reads, domestic-tension, psychological-darkness, thriller-themes, toxic-marriage, unreliable-narrator, villain-energy

80 likes

#21

“Ironically, societies characterized by a complex division of labor are often marked by inequality and support large specialized armies. Precisely these “civilized” societies are likely to resort to savage violence in their attempts to conquer “primitive” societies.22”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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#22

“Sometimes I look at the lives of the people around me and I wonder if we aren’t all destined to leave a trail of damage.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

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#23

“Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
― Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could

tags: inspirational-quotes

439 likes

#24

“No rest
without love,
No sleep
without dreams
of love -
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines
the final wish
is love.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

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