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“As the taxi entered the intersection, the two drivers in the attorney general’s entourage slammed on the brakes. Both Suburbans fishtailed out of control. Ducking in the back seat, Blake could smell the burning rubber from tires skidding on the asphalt and hear the pedestrians screaming and car horns sounding off in rebuke.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: clandestine, counterterrorism, drama, justice, legal, novel, plotting, suspense, target

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“The water far below was black in the shadow of the ship. A plank creaked. She froze. No noisy jump. It would have to be a dive. Head down into darkness. She’d never dived at night.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: ancient-athens, fiction, golden-age, history, immersive, literature, love, military-campaigns, treacherous

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#3

“Trust is a strange bedfellow.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action, adventure, death, dramatic, dystopian, fiction, good-vs-evil, science-fiction, supremacist, war

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#4

“What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves is also his wife.”
― Ian McEwan, Saturday

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#5

“Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

tags: curiosity

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#6

“One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters. How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so sweetly and confidingly? I call them birds because there is nothing in the world better than birds!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#7

“Осъзнайте, че целият ужас е в това, че той има вече не кучешко, а именно човешко сърце. И то най-лошото от всички, които съществуват в природата”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

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#8

“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
― Robert Jordan

tags: forgiveness, men, women

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#9

“The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

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#10

“Home was the one place he wanted to forget, the place from which he’d run away but never could escape. And, yes, home was the place he’d been instructed to leave—the place where the trouble began and the trouble would end.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: drama, fiction, investigate, mystery, page-turner, plot-driven, puppeteering, survival, thriller, treachery

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#11

“The World Is Ruled by Numbers”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: ancient-greece, big-ideas, mathematics, mind-and-meaning, pattern-seeking, philosophy, speculative-fiction

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#12

“Strife and disagreement are givens—and lawyers are usually at the front line.”
― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life

tags: courtroom-life, human-conflict, justice, lawyer-life, legal-memoir, litigation, reflective-nonfiction

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#13

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

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#14

“For once he looked at her as if he saw her – an older woman unafraid of blustering men, too assured to play at looking younger. ”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: character-insight, feminist-fiction, midlife-heroine, own-your-power, strong-women, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery

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#15

“Your soil and plants are friends that benefit from constant care and attention to the details I explain.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: care, feed, gardening, grow, herbs, horticulture, nature, plants, soil

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#16

“To lift such a heavy weight, Sisyphus, you will need all your courage. I do not lack the courage to complete the task But the goal is far and time is short.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

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“VLADIMIR: (after a moment of bewilderment). We'll see when the time comes. (Pause.) I was saying that things have changed here since yesterday.
ESTRAGON: Everything oozes.
VLADIMIR: Look at the tree.
ESTRAGON: It's never the same pus from one second to the next.
VLADIMIR: The tree, look at the tree. Estragon looks at the tree.
ESTRAGON: Was it not there yesterday?
VLADIMIR: Yes of course it was there. Do you not remember? We nearly hanged ourselves from it. But you wouldn't. Do you not remember?
ESTRAGON: You dreamt it.
VLADIMIR: Is it possible you've forgotten already?
ESTRAGON: That's the way I am. Either I forget immediately or I never forget.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

tags: memory

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#18

“It’s like Tiffany’s,” she said. “Not that I give a hoot about jewelry. Diamonds, yes. But it’s tacky to wear diamonds before you’re forty; and even that’s risky. They only look right on the really old girls. Maria Ouspenskaya. Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds. I can’t wait.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

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#19

“I dream about standing in the lunch line naked. It's always the lunch line in ninth grade.
Nakedness dreams are very common.
I suppose they are.”
― Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

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#20

“The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth.
those I don't have but I have learned not to scorn the substitutes: quiet, plenty of time, and a job to spend it on.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

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“Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

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