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    Therisa Peimer
    “Aurelia, not all those women are uppity aristocratic bitches. Most of them are normal nice girls trying to survive in shark-infested waters, so if you want to make a difference, why not go in there and change the way things work?" "How?" Marcus smiled deviously. "By unseating the queen bee and changing the rules." "That sounds like a great idea, Colonel. Lead me to the beehive.”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: adventure, dramatic, dystopian, fantasy, fiction-action, good-v-s-evil, mystery, science-fiction
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    “To whomever swapped my tattoo cream for toothpaste........ well played.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: humour, humourous-situations, tattoo, tattoos
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    Robert Reid
    “The Elder of Ewart spoke out. “Your words are powerful, Ala Moire, yet they will not suffice. The Dewar commands 50,000 troops in Erbea. We are unskilled in war. We have no hope of defeating or even slowing down this invasion. All we can do is hope to treat with them and negotiate some settlement. If this means we bow our heads, so be it. I will not call simple allegiance to a foreign king slavery. Unless the Dewar wants to rape our land, he can have my fealty.”
    ― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire
    tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy
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    Michael Parker
    “Why would you want to kidnap Herr Schiller’s grandson?”
    Jansch looked at his boss. He arched his eyebrows. “I wouldn’t.”
    “I know you wouldn’t. But amuse me, please.”
    Jansch studied the car for a moment. “Leverage,” he said eventually.”
    ― Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant
    tags: betrayal, cyber-warfare, encrypted, enemies, escape, fast-paced, gripping, kill, manipulation, unpredictable
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    Alan Bradley
    “When you’re in The System, like after being arrested, you’re no longer a participant. You’re being processed. Instead of an easy to ignore, well-greased cog, you become a sharp edge that needs to be ground down.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough
    tags: betrayal, city, culture, dark, new-york-city, ny, plots, tragedy, twists, vibrant
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  • #6
    “When Divine is awakened, so too are the forces of evil. And these two forces will clash as it has been since the beginning…”
    ― Cade Mengler, The Companions
    tags: action-fantasy, adventure, ancient-prophecy, charisma, degrading, malevolent-force, power, prophecy, relics, unravelling
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    Andri E. Elia
    “Should I surrender to this bliss? The love, the touch of a child!”
    ― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand
    tags: emotional, equality, flying, magic, marriage, powerful-women, royalty, rulers, strong-women, women-empowerment
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    John Bunyan
    “And that though one man may tell another how he should pray: yet, as I said before, he cannot pray, nor make his condition known to God, except the Spirit help.  It is not the Common Prayer-Book that can do this.  It is the Spirit that showeth us our sins, and the Spirit that showeth us a Saviour, Jn. xvi. 16, and the Spirit that stirreth up in our hearts desires to come to God, for such things as we stand in need of, Matt. xi. 27, even sighing out our souls unto Him for them with groans which cannot be uttered.  With other words to the”
    ― John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
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    Albert Camus
    “This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: existentialism
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have a feeling that if i did, the joy would be gone as well. So i take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever i can.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
    tags: balance
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    Arthur Miller
    “Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.”
    ― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
    tags: sad-but-true
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    Nicholas Evans
    “It was, she believed, a simple and unassailable fact of life that if a woman went to epic lengths to throw herself on the mercy of a man, the man would not, could not, refuse.”
    ― Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer
    tags: men, women
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