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#1

“The car was waiting for him, and in twenty minutes, he passed under the Broken Heart sign that used to read Tender Oak. Edward found it ironic that it was March. The harvest would begin soon. He’d first arrived at this place seventy-five years ago at the age of ten, in March, just before the harvest.”
― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live

tags: courage, demise, emotional, good-life, life-vs-death, metaphysical-fiction, new-experiences, no-escape, opportunity, regrets

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#2

“Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle has been ordered to wipe the Swakop River Radio station off the map!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: drama, exciting, family, fiction, finding-happinesss, honour, living, military, philosophy, soul-searching

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#3

“Meditation connects us to the silence between words, to the whisper of the wind, to the divine essence within.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: divinewhispers, essenceofbeing, silentmeditation

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#4

“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, humour, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, sorcery

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#5

“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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#6

“She’s a cop’s wife. She understands what her husband does for a living,” the priest said.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: detective, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, mystery, noir, noir-mystery, pi, private-investigation

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#7

“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.
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― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller

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#8

“This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family

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#9

“Diocesan exams are given at the end of March to students in Catholic schools throughout Massachusetts from the fourth to the twelfth grade. You have to answer four out of seven essay questions. A typical question goes something like this: Theologians speculate about whether Christ actually appeared to His disciples after He rose from the dead. Is the scripture clear on this? Discuss, with reference to the different gospels and their variations, and to different theological interpretations”
― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood

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#10

“Love is a coincidence that is never permanent,” he answered discreetly. “It is inertia, remember, inertia...”
― Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday

tags: bruh

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#11

“for if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this but that you first make thieves and then punish them?’ “While”
― Thomas More, Utopia

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#12

“An overnight success is ten years in the making.”
― Tom Clancy, Dead or Alive

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#13

“Antago”
― Walter Farley, The Island Stallion's Fury

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#14

“It’s incredible to reflect on how much knowledge and growth power is contained in seeds.”
― Charles Dowding

tags: gardening, growth, harvest, harvesting, herb-gardening, knowledge, organic, vegetable, vegetable-garden

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#15

“You want the truth? Then you come alone. And make sure you’re not followed. Your life depends on it.”
― Murray Bailey, The Mark of Eternity

tags: conspiracy-thriller, crime-thriller, dangerous-truths, high-stakes, mystery, mystery-thriller, suspense-reads, thriller, weekend-reads

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#16

“Sweet girl, dry your tears. I’ve got a plan.”
― JoDee Neathery, Wings Against The Wind

tags: compassion, emotional-support, hopeful-reads, rescue, second-chances, turning-point, womens-fiction

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#17

“The important thing is that you keep going. Keep challenging the status quo. Don’t give up.”
― Chitra D. Nawbatt, The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success

tags: ambition, courage, leadership, motivation, personal-development, personal-growth, self-belief, self-discovery, self-knowledge, status-quo

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#18

“There will come a moment when you will look at your child, your firstborn, and realize there isn’t anything you would not do, would not suffer, would not sacrifice, for that child’s well-being.”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

tags: emotional-fantasy, family-saga, fantasy, heart-lines, love, parenthood, protectiveness, sacrifice

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#19

“In response to be asked about Boris Johnson becoming UK Prime Minister...

"I'm delighted. As the UK continues to plunge ever faster into a future akin to a dystopian novel I'll never run out of material to write more books. Although now that reality is more bizarre than fiction maybe plot-lines will need to be more ambitious. Perhaps a book where Boris Johnson is really an accidental sentient snafu of Trump's scrotum lint. Kind of a sequel to the Bush-Blair story. I see musical rights being drawn up as we speak.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: dystopian, dystopian-future, political, politicians, politics, prime-minister, satire, satire-quote, satire-quotes

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#20

“The warm, resonant tones drifted through the wreckage, full-bodied and alive, a memory in every octave.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

tags: emotional-reads, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, memory, music-in-fiction, resilience, wartime-fiction

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#21

“In one breath, you fear the government getting involved with unions, welfare, or immigration laws all, in essence, aimed at helping our poor fellow Americanyet, in another breath, you look for tariffs and even subsidies.”
― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries

tags: american-history, book-quotes, class-politics, gilded-age, historical-fiction, industrial-america, labor-history, social-commentary

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#22

“Professionals were different from others; they rose above the so-called morals of the marketplace and earned the trust of those they served”
― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life

tags: career-values, integrity, leadership, legal-memoir, professional-ethics, service, trust

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#23

“Because there haven’t been any advances,” Malcolm said. “Not really. Thirty thousand years ago; when men were doing cave paintings at Lascaux, they worked twenty hours a week to provide themselves with food and shelter and clothing. The rest of the time, they could play, or sleep, or do whatever they wanted. And they lived in a natural world, with clean air, clean water, beautiful trees and sunsets. Think about it. Twenty hours a week. Thirty thousand years ago.” Ellie said, “You want to turn back the clock?” “No,” Malcolm said. “I want people to wake up. We’ve had four hundred years of modern science, and we ought to know by now what it’s good for, and what it’s not good for. It’s time for a change.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

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#24

“Yes, the whites were as miserable as their black victims, I thought. If this country can't find its way to a human path, if it can't inform conduct with a deep sense of life, then all of us, black as well as white, are doing down the same drain...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

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#25

“He was hissed on the streets of Frankfurt, stones were thrown, a group of workmen jeered him and called out that he ought to have been burned with the Jews.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List

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#26

“From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: reviews

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#27

“Fifth Cave with her”
― Jean M. Auel, The Shelters of Stone

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#28

“The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry, rain

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