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    Susan Rowland
    “You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise.”
    [Anna] aimed her defiance at Mary.
    “And you? What’s your reason to hate me?”
    Caroline spoke quietly. “We nearly died — in the fire in those mountains and at the house when Ravi had a gun pointed at us.” Her eyes were full of tears. “The fire you set at The Old Hospital could have killed me as well as Janet and Agnes.”
    Anna muttered into the syrupy dregs of her tea. “Fire, you’re firing me?”
    Mary grimaced. There had been too much fire.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: action, detective, fiction, fiction-novel, murder, realistic, thriller
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was farther away. She swung her head around—so was the shore.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: battles, classical-struggles, drama, family-life, hierarchy, naval-battles, passion, philosophical, rebellion
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    Nancy O'Meara
    “The person at the other end is answering questions from a person she has never met and about whom she knows nothing. Good manners from you will certainly elicit a more complete response than a threatening or superior attitude.”
    ― Nancy O'Meara, The Cult around the Corner: A Handbook on Dealing with Other People's Religions
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    Karl Braungart
    “Gentlemen, how did the Tariq’Allah find out about the weapon? Was it from sources in the United States or Iraq?”
    ― Karl Braungart, Triple Deception
    tags: action, cia, detective, disappearance, dramatic, fast-paced, mystery, police, terrorist, traditional
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    Max Nowaz
    “He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
     ”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “To each his own fear';”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
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    Hermann Hesse
    “At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    tags: demian, hermann-hesse, ideals, war
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    Katherine Paterson
    “supposed to be OK again to like peace,”
    ― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
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    “The blast of hot air lifted Tazeem from his feet and threw him onto his back in the road. He blinked up into the night sky; raindrops glowed orange as they fell towards the earth.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: descriptive-prose, explosion
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    Ashby Jones
    “
I'm not the one to forgive you, Lois. You have to forgive yourself, and your father.”
    ― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird
    tags: familydrama, forgiveness, guiltandgrace, healingjourney, readerswhofeeldeeply, traumaandhealing
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    Theasa Tuohy
    “Quite," Detective Vidal pronounced as though he'd learned his English in a British finishing school. "Even Madame Rachel, who sat right beside, could not tell.”
    ― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth
    tags: action, crime-story, detective, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, mystery, thriller
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    Todor Bombov
    “Yesterday, I asked a robot, Gumball I think, do you know Murphy’s law of gravitation? It answered, ‘No, sir, I know only Newton’s and Einstein’s laws of gravitation; I don’t know Murphy’s law.’ I replied, ‘Eh, Gumball, the slice always falls with the buttered side to the floor. That’s Murphy’s law.’” Everyone burst into laughter.”
    ― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan
    tags: action, drama, dystopian, fiction, futuristic, machines, robots, sci-fi, science-fiction, technology
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    K. Ritz
    “The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, engaging, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery
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    “We are humiliated and disillusioned once again by our own countrymen because they attempt to trample on us, which increases our isolation and unimportance.”
    ― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime
    tags: agents, comic, fbi, fight, humour, love, perish, revenge, truth, war
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    Cecelia Ahern
    “The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to
    be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really
    don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.”
    ― Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories
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    Nelou Keramati
    “Drink the waters meant to drown you.”
    ― Nelou Keramati
    tags: control, freedom, growth, nelou-keramati, power, resilience, strength, water
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    Edward Abbey
    “It seems to me possible, even probable, that many of the nonhuman undomesticated animals experience emotions unknown to us. What do the coyotes mean when they yodel at the moon? What are the dolphins trying so patiently to tell us? Precisely what did those two enraptured gopher snakes have in mind when they came gliding toward my eyes over the naked sandstone? If I had been as capable of trust as I am susceptible to fear I might have learned something new or some truth so very old we have all forgotten it. They”
    ― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
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    James Clavell
    “Lend a little and you have a debtor—lend a lot and you have a partner!”
    ― James Clavell, Noble House
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    Susan Cain
    “Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.”
    ― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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