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#1

“I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, noir-mystery, nvestigation, thriller

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#2

“Aye. I’m afraid for my immortal soul now.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: ancestry, courage, exploration, hatred, history, loss, romance, secrets, thrilling, victims

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#3

“There follows a description of one lorry collapsing into the river. … While the energetic and able Burmese drivers and their assistants were busy clearing away the debris I walked up to the village to seek the help of the Akyiwa and his villagers …
…there was no going back. All worked cheerfully and with a will, Chinese, Indian, Kachin and Burmese. … From Shaduzup
onwards the forest grew incredibly thick, and consequently the track was not sufficiently recovered from the rain to make the rest of our journey an easy one … Captain Gribble”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

tags: army-quotes, band-of-brothers, family, front-line, guns, love, loyalty, pilots

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#4

“Ben leaned back slightly, studying her with that same
unreadable calm. “I looked into you, you know. Not the
name you gave. The real one.”
Jane sat up slowly, her wine glass balanced loosely in
one hand. The water had gone too still, as if something
just below the surface had pressed pause.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: Secrets

tags: beautiful, dramatic, funny, heartwarming, humour, insight, profound, sad, sorrow, thought-provoking

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#5

“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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#6

“The girl flinched, even lying down. Mary continued through gritted teeth. “Murder can’t be walked away from. Just like you can’t walk away from Viktor. He’ll find you if you run. Richard can’t protect you if Viktor believes you have his babies.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: action, adventure, drama, fast-paced, fiction-novel, murder-mystery, thriller

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#7

“123”
― Sybrina Durant, 123 Count With Me: Fun With Numbers and Animals

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#8

“I climb the vine-covered walls
using stillness as a braided rope,
and drop like a cat
into the garden of the eternal.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

tags: chances, change, compassion, completion, dig-deep, dreamer, explore, joy, respect, strength

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#9

“Cairo. An inter-services game of cricket was in progress in the lush grounds behind him as Powell made his way through the grand portal of the Gezira Sporting Club. It was a hot and humid day and Powell was dripping with sweat. A fellow officer had given him a lift for part of the way but he had had to walk the last mile. Uniformed Egyptian attendants bowed and guided him through the lobby towards the bar, where he could see his host with a drink already in hand.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

tags: commandos, courage, defence, freedom, french-army, liberation, ptsd, special-forces, strength, war

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#10

“You see, if I stop thinking about what I’m scenting on the air or in the undergrowth, if I cease wondering which path to tread or where we’re going and instead let myself meld into the space in my head, it’s as if I am living in what the humans called a library, the place where all knowledge is stored.”
― Graham Pryor, Cerberus

tags: adventure, dystopian, fast-paced, future, gripping, literary-fiction, mission, mystery, thrilling

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#11

“The Green Judges, most of them decidedly miffed, grumbled out one by one, though I got a wink and a thumbsup from Washington.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

tags: literarysatire, magicalrealism, memorable, mythicmodernity, weirdlit, wryhumor

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#12

“In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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#13

“There are mammalian females of many species that, in pressured circumstances, will devour their own young. These and other violent extremes I can comprehend and can, in some deep crack of my inner self, find some sympathy for. But that class of insensate savages that take the center of their Volcano Bar in one bite, separate from the enveloping chocolate, sets the small hairs of my body stiff and vibrating, causes waves of shock to traverse my entire nervous system, and sends venomous serpentine convolutions into my very dreams.”
― Katherine Dunn, Toad

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#14

“After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are reading, scarcely matters any more. We have put something of ourselves everywhere, everything is fertile, everything is dangerous, and we can make discoveries no less precious than in Pascal's Pensées in an advertisement for soap.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

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#15

“Come over the hills and far with me
And be my love in the rain.”
― Robert Frost, Complete Poems Of Robert Frost, 1949

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#16

“To determine the age of eggs, place them in a bowl of water...eggs that float are too old and should be thrown away.”
― Irma S. Rombauer, Joy of Cooking

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#17

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

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#18

“When those we care about are weakest, that’s when we must be strong for them.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, adventure, detective, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, noir-mystery, thriller

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#19

“My Lady, turn away; do not look into the wagon, it is too frightening for a lady to view.”
― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

tags: book-1, drama, fantasy, fiction, historical, history, intrigue, mystery, trilogy

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#20

“Cung said, “I have researched Vietnamese People fleeing to the land of the Uc da Loi! On the 26th of April 1976, the first boat carrying Vietnamese refugees arrived in Darwin. (Uc da Loi means Big Red Rat. The Vietnamese People named Australians as such because of the red kangaroo painted on the sides of Australian military vehicles. They did not know what a kangaroo was and so, they thought it was a rat. Hence the name of Uc da Loi.)

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: civil-war, knowledge, life-lessons, military-budget, politics, poverty, secession, self-acceptance, social-change, war-weapons

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#21

“But when people talk about it they call it The Zombie Room.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

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#22

“In a popular state the inhabitants are divided into certain classes,” Montesquieu affirmed in a Marxian manner a century before Marx! So, the popular state is a fiction; it is transient, fleeting, and for this reason — imaginable only. In its rigorous scientific sense of a class instrument, it is practically an empty matter sophism, a complete commonplaceness, an offspring of mental weakness. There is no such state! If it is a state, it is not popular! If it is popular, it is not a state yet! The State is a violent institution for social injustice generated by two main classes, which are main ones because they are at enmity… Any people closed in a state, are divided into classes. “For indeed any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich.”(Plato, The Republic). Not Marx, still Plato said the truth!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: communism, dictatorship, influence, liberty, marxism, oppression, political, radical, regime, sovereignty

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#23

“Americans have a love affair with weak coffee.’ ‘And you’re a coffee expert, too,’ Gwen said, cutting a thick slice of apple pie.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

tags: characterdynamics, dialoguegold, literarysatire, sharethis, smalltowndiner, wryhumor

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#24

“Just because you don’t understand how something works, doesn’t make it demonic,”
― Guy Morris, The Last Ark: Lost Secrets of Qumran

tags: adventure, ai, dramatic, espionage, fast-paced, fiction, plot-driven, technothriller, thriller

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#25

“His chest protruded like a deprived marigold craning its petals to soak in the sun.”
― H. Meadow Hopewell, Rage Against the Machine

tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, compelling, deep, future, humanity, sci-fi, science-fiction, suspense, thriller

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#26

“The world is full of magic. You’ve just got to learn how to access it.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#27

“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: atonement, saints, sin, sinners

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#28

“Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
...On the other hand, he SAID it.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

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#29

“I will follow you to the ends of the world.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

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#30

“I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: humor

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