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“Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid. Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: betrayal, emotions, friendship, honour, human-emotions, literary-novel, passion, relationships, tense, torment

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#2

“They do not expect such misbehavior from me.”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

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#3

“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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#4

“Her unexpected outburst rocked Flaminius to his core. Suddenly, she didn't seem so angelic. Her face twisted with rage; veins in her neck throbbed with fury in a scene all too familiar. Her reaction switched him off to her instantly as all his worst fears came to life.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, fight, gripping, literary-fiction, love, mystery, war

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#5

“Saskia lay back again, closing her eyes and continued eating mandarin wedges. After a pause, she added, “I think that the biggest danger for people like you and me is that we start blaming people for things that happen to us. Bullies smell that kind of thing from miles away. People like you and me have to stop thinking about our limitations and start thinking about our talents and not let other people define us.”
― Miriam Verbeek, The Forest: A thrilling international crime novel

tags: curiosity, drama, exhilarating, fiction, fiction-novel, investigator, mystery, sleuth, thriller

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#6

“He thrust his shoulders back and spoke in a whisper that sounded like the hiss of a snake.
‘Yes, the very battle between good and evil, played out even in the lowliest of lives like yours. Witches killing dogs because they did not get their favourite drink.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

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

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#7

“As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe.”
― John Rachel, 12-12-12

tags: arrogance, cerebral, computers, gymnastics, intelligence, orangutan, universe

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#8

“The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,” he murmured. Thinking of her out there on the battlefield. In his tent. What more could a woman want? Quite a lot, actually.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: action, drama, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, love, page-turner, politics, suspense

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#9

“They stood in the pool of lantern light, the house still around them. She placed a hand to calm his still heaving chest, the heat of his body fresh from travel. The coolness of her hand made him start, then he pulled her close. It was more than her body he needed.”
― Leslie K. Simmons, Red Clay, Running Waters

tags: 19th-century-classic, cherokee, culture, drama, enlightening, exploration, fiction-writing, historical-novel, novel, powerful

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#10

“Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.”
― Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil

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#11

“Senior year. And then life. Maybe that's the way it worked. High school was just a prologue to the real novel. Everybody got to write you -- but when you graduated, you got to write yourself. At graduation you got to collect your teacher's pens and your parents' pens and you got your own pen. And you could do all the writing. Yeah. Wouldn't that be sweet?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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#12

“So many Chimaerae," Nine says, nodding excitedly as he gazes into the darkness. "That's awesome."

"We named the chubby, lazy one after you," Sam replies.

"Less awesome.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Revenge of Seven

tags: garde, lorien-legacies, nine, sam, the-revenge-of-seven

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#13

“I am no longer one of Mr. Pontellier's possessions to dispose of or not.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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#14

“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: adversity

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#15

“Compliments in America can take an almost aggressive form, as if the speaker needs to defend her own shortcomings rather that simply to rejoice in another's ability.”
― Tracy Chevalier, The Last Runaway

tags: compliments

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