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    Max Nowaz
    “You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma
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    Steven Decker
    “When Dani was about 1,000 feet above the ground, her direction changed from vertical to horizontal. She sped east at high speed. She estimated her speed to be many hundreds of kilometers per hour. As she thought about it, if she was going to make this trip in one hour, her speed would have to be about the speed of a jet airline. Yet she felt no wind, nor cold, whatsoever.”
    ― Steven Decker, Time Chain
    tags: adventure, compelling, complex, fiction, metaphysical, romance, sci-fi, science, science-fiction, time-travel
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    Alan Bradley
    “Life was about making sense out of the insensible. A ball of fire out of a clear blue sky? Must’ve been a meteorite, maybe debris from an airplane. Random flashes of light and color at night? A transformer blew up, you must’ve been dreaming, you’re talking crazy, quiet down, take your meds.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough
    tags: magic, out-of-control, shotgun, supernatural, supernatural-abilities, thriller, thriller-fiction, trauma, traumatic-events, violent
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    “What the American people didn’t know was how aggressive the government was in protecting our defenses and creating weapons. FDR had already secretly approved the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb. And the government saw the waterfront as vital to our defenses. They feared that spies or other saboteurs would infiltrate the docks and interrupt the shipments of supplies or somehow obtain vital information about America’s secrets. They made a deal with the Mafia, specifically gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano.”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: america, american-history, discovery, historical-fiction, historical-investigations, historical-mysteries, history-novel, war, war-time-history
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    K. Ritz
    “This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, antasy, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery
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    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”
    ― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows
    tags: adventure, danger, drama, emotional, emotions, family, fiction, literary, literary-fiction, loss
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    “The owner of the Post Office was called Maurice. A sixtyish-year-old with a large red nose that was pebble-dashed with broken capillaries, and a smooth bald head with a fuzz of grey hair around the side like the tide mark on a dirty bath. He had a gruff manner, distrusting eyes and a cough like kicked gravel.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: descriptive-prose, visual-moments
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    Susan Rowland
    “Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party for the convenience of the police. It’s like an old-fashioned mystery novel.”
    ― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds
    tags: drama, excitement, fiction-novel, investigation, murder-mystery, mysterious, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller
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    Andri E. Elia
    “A celestial wizard doesn’t destroy celestial bodies. She bends them.”
    ― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
    tags: adventure, coming-of-age, fiction, love, mystery, sci-fi, space, space-opera, teen-ya, wizardry
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    Raz Mihal
    “Although cold, the sun warms my heart and soul with its rays of divine love.”
    ― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her
    tags: divinesunshine, heartandsoul, loveinnature
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it.”
    ― Thomas Hardy
    tags: love, monogamy
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
    tags: d-h-lawrence, darkness, life-and-living, the-rainbow
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    P.D. Eastman
    “It's a party. A big Dog Party.”
    ― P.D. Eastman
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    Jane Smiley
    “Don’t you want to know what happened?” Carol turned to look at her and put her hands on her hips. She said, “No, I don’t, because I don’t want you making a story out of it, because as soon as you make a story out of it, then it keeps happening every time you tell it, and if you make a good story out of it, then you’re gonna want to tell it, so don’t bother.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Moo
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    O. Henry
    “He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.”
    ― O. Henry, The Complete Works of O. Henry: Short Stories, Poems and Letters
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