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#1

“You realize assuming can often lead to getting into trouble.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action, child, danger, dark, different-worlds, drama, fascinating, literary, love, mystery

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#2

“He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire."
"And you? What are your plans?"
"I have no plans to kill your father.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: action-packed, aliens, compelling, dry, earth, fast-paced, humans, humour, intrigue, mission

433 likes

#3

“Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern.”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: action, ancestry, discovery, family, family-history, future, history, literary-fiction, love, suspense

184 likes

#4

“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

297 likes

#5

“But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

tags: inspirational, shakespeare

200 likes

#6

“Sergeant Max Franklin replied, “Just go back to your post at number six and keep your wits about you. The word from the Americans in “Big Red One” is that the Noggies are coming to us. I hope not, but it could be what you have been hearing.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, historical-fiction, history-resource, oceanian-fiction, research, southeast-asia, strategy, tactical, vietnam, war-recount

189 likes

#7

“Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.”
― Jeffrey Archer, Only Time Will Tell

303 likes

#8

“[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

tags: apology, husbands, inequality, inferiority, marriage, matrimony, perception, wives

24 likes

#9

“Човек притежава малкото разум, за да проумее, че не може да се живее само с разум. Хората живеят с чувствата си, а за чувствата е безразлично кой е прав.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Heaven Has No Favorites

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#10

“What is she looking for? She thought she had found it with Kyle. But maybe she hadn’t. Perhaps she was looking for stability, security, sameness because her growing-up years had seemed so fragmented, and she often felt unsure of how she fit in. Maybe stability isn’t all she is looking for.”
― Dawn Chalker, Lost and Found

tags: drama, love, love-story, page-turner, pain, searching, security, stability, struggles, values

137 likes

#11

“Warm, aquamarine eyes stared into him—providing a lifeline to shore. And he wondered if she was really the one who needed saving . . .”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

tags: adversity, drama, funny, love, ptsd, relationship, romance, romantic-comedy, spicy, witty

148 likes

#12

“Debbie doesn’t want to read a book.”
― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words

tags: kids-books, parents-of-readers, picture-book, reading-feels, reluctant-reader, storytime, teachers-of-instagram

68 likes

#13

“In winter. At the very beginning winter.”
― David Øybo, Julebord: The Holiday Party

tags: atmospheric-reads, crime-fiction, memorable-lines, nordic-setting, stylized-prose, tension-build, unsettling-tone, winter-mood

10 likes

#14

“ The moment Lena storms back into my life, I know I’m screwed. She’s not just my new employee—she’s my best friend’s little sister, the girl I swore I’d never touch.”
― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance

tags: bestfriendslittlesister, booklovers, contemporaryromance, forbiddenromance, morallygray, protectivehero, romance, slowburn, tension, workplace-romance

40 likes

#15

“Unbelievable and true. Anna Solokov is neither a frightened girl nor a criminal spider in the center of a huge web of drugs and god knows. No, that dangerous young woman could easily do both at different times, and to different people. No doubt that is part of George’s attraction to her. She is victim. Yet when necessary, or when it suits her, she is victimizer. Does he imagine he is battling for her soul?”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: action, adventure, danger, fiction, fiction-novel, insight, mystery, noir-mystery, unpredictable

340 likes

#16

“Sitting there on the beach, with the sounds of the gulls and children’s laughter as a backdrop, it all seemed so long ago.”
― Anne Allen, The Ghost of Seagull Cottage: Inspired by The Ghost and Mrs Muir

tags: cozy-fiction, family-moments, gentle-romance, healing-journey, nostalgia, reflective-reads, seaside-reads, summer-vibes

39 likes

#17

“Human language is not the only form of communication and transmission of information and in some cases, it is not the most effective.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: beyondwords, deepreads, metaphysicalfiction, musicandenergy, spiritualfiction, thepythagorean, vibration

147 likes

#18

“See to it that you send out the best warriors we have and that they all know exactly what to do and how to do it!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion

tags: earlymedieval, leadership, orders, preparation, strategy, warcraft

34 likes

#19

“The grass was plush under his feet as he flew down the right flank of the field.”
― J L MARRAIN, THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER

tags: action, adventure, book-quotes, character-driven, determination, fantasy, page-turner, ya-reads

202 likes

#20

“We’ve been friends since our first day together.”
― Laurie Loveman, Memories

tags: book-quotes, brotherhood, chosen-family, firehouse-family, found-family, friendship-goals, loyalty, small-town-fiction

11 likes

#21

“The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.”
― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

8 likes

#22

“Proper apologies have three parts:

1) What I did was wrong.
2) I feel badly that I hurt you.
3) How do I make this better?”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

tags: apologies, fighting, relationships

69 likes

#23

“We’re all still running, according to Kreizler—in our private moments we Americans are running just as fast and fearfully as we were then, running away from the darkness we know to lie behind so many apparently tranquil household doors, away from the nightmares that continue to be injected into children’s skulls by people whom Nature tells them they should love and trust, running ever faster and in ever greater numbers toward those potions, powders, priests, and philosophies that promise to obliterate such fears and nightmares, and ask in return only slavish devotion.”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist

9 likes

#24

“And just as he who, with exhausted breath,
having escaped from sea to shore, turns back
to watch the dangerous waters he has quit, so did my spirit, still a fugitive,
turn back to look intently at the pass
that never has let any man survive.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

tags: dante-alighieri, encouragement-quotes

9 likes

#25

“When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

tags: romance

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