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#1

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

1557 likes

#2

“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

491 likes

#3

“Non c'è dolore inflitto coscientemente a qualcuno che non ci torni indietro decuplicato”
― Eve Ensler, The Apology

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#4

“Gazala,”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

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#5

“There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.”
― E.B. White, One Man's Meat

tags: assumptions, life, living, preconceptions

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#6

“He gets drunk on just plain living. And he understands everybody.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

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#7

“Life is untimely.”
― Christine M. Knight

tags: in-and-out-of-step

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#8

“I went up to the terrace again and looked out on the tawny, many-alleyed city. At night it looked carved from brown sugar.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

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#9

“On the 16th of Febuary 1312, when Isabella was aged sixteen years, the couple were at their hunting lodge when Edward suddenly took Isabella into his arms and began to kiss her and pay her a lot of attention, slowly and tenderly.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

tags: captivating, facts, fiction, france, historical, king-edward, political-obstacles, power, researched, royalty

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#10

“Before going to breakfast, you are in your room experiencing the gongs of a classic religious
bell, a unique and cuddly invitation to the morning meditation session. In ten minutes it will be 7:00 a.m.—dawn’s brisk reminder that life will never be easy. Mornings are a bit cruel.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: descriptive, drama, empathy, joy, meditation, motivated, peace, religous, self-healing, spiritual

209 likes

#11

“Time travel was invented by the Community of Minds in 2183. I was a thirty-four-year-old billionaire and had fallen in love with one of my assistants a few years prior. ”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: action, adventure, creatures, drama, fiction, literary-fiction, metaphysical, science, travel

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#12

“you calm down and listen carefully to these words.” He pressed the play button on his recorder and held it to the sending end of the telephone.”
― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

tags: advocacy-work, compromise, cultural-heritage, educational-philosophy, institutional-reform, lawmaking, political-struggle, progress, small-town-politics, societal-progress

75 likes

#13

“It was the worst moment of my life, to realize she was really gone, never to return.”
Tara does not know what it would be like to have lived with the same person, loved the same person, for so many years, and suddenly have them not be with you ever again.”
― dawn chalker, Lost and Found

tags: darkness, drama, dreams, heartbreak, hurt, life, loss, love, sad, triumph

136 likes

#14

“Due to Mom’s condition, she would attack “The Walls” from sun-up to sun-down and day after day due to her mentalparanoia. With the death of her sister, no barrier, partition, fence, or any standing surface would’ve been safe. That kind of trauma would’ve created an endless loop of rages such as: “Oh no! Oh no! Not my sister, you Devil Ass Dawg! Oh Jesus, those Dead Dawg have come and taken my sister away! Help me Jesus! Help me get those Dawg out of my house! Lawd, I can’t take these Dawg howling anymore! Lawd Jesus, bring her back! Lawd, bring her back!”
― Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift

tags: death, drama, family, godly, hope, praying, reality, sad, spiritual, suspense

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#15

“This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, engaging, exciting, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery

855 likes

#16

“You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

tags: inspirational, motivational

168 likes

#17

“She is an unpleasant woman, who seems to think of little besides herself, with few friends and no real talents.”
― Jean M. Auel, The Shelters of Stone

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#18

“She was knowingly punishing herself. That was the only reasonable explanation. There was no use in acting naive. What happened earlier in the day was proof that she was going to give in to his flirtation. It appeared she'd thrown caution to the wind and opened her arms to embrace everything that could go wrong in her life. What's one more problem to add to the pile?”
― Emem Uko, The Place That Gave

tags: flirting-with-fire, love-quotes, romance-book-quotes

204 likes

#19

“You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
― Heath Sommer

tags: the-manufactured-identity

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#20

“I wish we could take the hill. Could flood right on over it and end the war, wipe them all away in one great motion. But we can't. No matter how much I wish...or trust in God...”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

tags: michael-shaara, the-killer-angels

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#21

“Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.”
― William S. Burroughs, Ah Pook is Here! and Other Texts

tags: moderation

51 likes

#22

“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, humour, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, sorcery

865 likes

#23

“Notation on Quark Manipulation as Applied to the Time/Space Continuum.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: action, compelling, different-worlds, family-love, fiction, hero, marriage, power, romance, thrilling

117 likes

#24

“Jeremy, I’ll say this once,’ he (Jonathan) began, ‘I’m not going to be drawn into any silly squabble you want to invent. I am not going to defend my recent behaviour in the village or anywhere else. I am not going to tell you my plans, I have had reasons for everything I’ve done and a great deal of thinking has gone into my recent very painful decisions…”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

tags: betrayal, change, exorcism, fear, ghost, heart-breaking, love, manor-house, psychic, unusual

127 likes

#25

“To whomever swapped my tattoo cream for toothpaste........ well played.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: humour, humourous-situations, tattoo, tattoos

234 likes

#26

“I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.”
― Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life

tags: english-language, english-teachers, literature, love-of-reading

12 likes

#27

“I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.”
― Terry Goodkind

tags: strength, women

46 likes

#28

“Qualche volta al signor Pontellier veniva il dubbio che sua moglie cominciasse ad accusare qualche lieve squilibrio mentale. Vedeva chiaramente che non era più lei. O meglio, non vedeva che Edna stava diventando se stessa, e che ogni giorno si liberava di quella falsa identità che adottiamo come un abito con cui presentarci davanti al pubblico.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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#29

“Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings.”
― Dan Simmons, Ilium

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#30

“Calvin: «Mom says death is as natural as birth, and it's all part of the life cycle.
She says we don't really understand it, but there are many things we don't understand, and we just have to do the best we can with the knowledge we have.
I guess that makes sense.
...But don't you go anywhere.»
Hobbes: «Don't worry.»”
― Bill Watterson, Something Under the Bed is Drooling

tags: calvin-and-hobbes-bill-watterson

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