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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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