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  • #1
    “The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: excuse, life, musings, photos, writers, writers-life
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    Raz Mihal
    “Some tears of joy couldn’t be stopped, feeling so much love.”
    ― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her
    tags: heartfeltemotions, overwhelminglove, tearsofjoy
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  • #3
    Mike Martin
    “He mixed his sacred medicines and smudged. Afterward, he sat there for a moment to allow the smoke to come into his body and spirit. This one act connected him, even if briefly, to himself and to what he believed was the spirit world. In that space he offered thanks to those who had come before him and asked for help in this world, not just for himself but for anyone who might be struggling this morning.”
    ― Mike Martin, Too Close For Comfort
    tags: crime-story, curiosity, danger, humour, inspector, newfoundland, page-turner, police-force, protect, suspicious
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  • #4
    Susan Rowland
    “George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will, she promised herself. She would stake her life that those last words from her son would be solved by her. They were steppingstones into… whatever the wind and the stars and the valiant trees held for her.”
    ― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds
    tags: betrayal, dramatic, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, mystery, noir-mystery, suspense, thriller
    324 likes

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  • #5
    Adam Scott Huerta
    “GLOBAL TEMPERATURES HAVE LOWERED BY ONE DEGREE. GLOBEWIDE NATURAL INGREDIENT SHORTAGE IN EFFECT AS OF THIS MESSAGE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ”
    ― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black
    tags: absurd, conflicting-desires, desire, disorientation, existential-despair, exploring, freedom, self-doubt, unease, vivid
    139 likes

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  • #6
    K. Ritz
    “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

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  • #7
    Sherman Kennon
    “When the hatred stops will the love begin? When there is no more greed will there then be peace?”
    ― Sherman Kennon, My Thoughts
    tags: inspirational, love, love-quotes, peace, peace-quote, poet, poetry, poetry-quote
    104 likes

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  • #8
    Aravind Adiga
    “Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.”
    ― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
    tags: colonization, communication, english, language
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  • #9
    J.D. Salinger
    “I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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  • #10
    Malcolm Gladwell
    “Working really hard is what successful people do...”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
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  • #11
    Fynn
    “Ugliness was the chance to make beautiful. Sadness was the chance to make glad.”
    ― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna
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  • #12
    Anita Diamant
    “right-winger.”
    ― Anita Diamant, The Boston Girl
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  • #13
    Alice Walker
    “Do you know what O'Keefe Says about blue? he asked her, blowing out a cloud of smoke, warming to her voice, though he did not remember her face clearly from the opening night's exhibition.

    What?

    That it is the color that will remain after everything is destroyed.”
    ― Alice Walker, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart
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  • #14
    K. Ritz
    “If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery
    865 likes

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  • #15
    Sara Pascoe
    “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

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  • #16
    “Did you see them? When I looked at the soldiers, I felt the British soldiers’ eyes boring into us, and I knew they were intently observing our battle with the two horses and wagon.”
    ― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime
    tags: action, adventure, conflict, drama, fast-paced, freedom, freedom-fighters, imagination, suspensful, weapons
    82 likes

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  • #17
    Max Nowaz
    “Are you really a reporter?” asked Brown.
“You already asked me that. Come back to Levita, take the pardon.”
 “I doubt I’ll live long enough to get there,” said Brown bitterly.
“I hope you survive. You are a fighter. And we have the antidote for your habit on
Levita. I suggest you take a vacation. There’s nothing much that’s going to happen here.”
With that she left, leaving Brown more confused than ever.
He was a father, he had a son. And, the Levitians had a cure for his drug-addled body.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: contemporary-fiction, intrigue, manipulation, mystery, suspense, thriller
    423 likes

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  • #18
    “She’s a cop’s wife. She understands what her husband does for a living,” the priest said.”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: detective, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, mystery, noir, noir-mystery, pi, private-investigation
    136 likes

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  • #19
    “In this new reality, even ordinary streets had teeth.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: Killer
    tags: danger, emtions, fiction, moodylines, pain, psychological, suspenseful, threateverywhere, thrillerreads, urbanatmosphere
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