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#1

“I realized that if you avoid the sin, you will also avoid the fun.”
― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

tags: compelling, connection, exciting, love, personal-growth, resilience, seductive, self-discovery, societal-expectations, unbridled-desire

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#2

“In the rose garden, the flowers are maneuvering toward the winter sunshine and the alluring sound of the koi pond’s waterfall makes you think it has a crush on you. You offer no resistance—you are done (at least temporarily) with the “regular” world.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: deep, descriptive, fiction, love, make-believe, meaningful, nature, refreshing, romance, self-reflecting

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#3

“But this is my fucking life! My mom died and some reporter wanted a story.” I heaved for air. “And all I cared about was playing in some game. Like that was what mattered. She was dying, and I was mad. I’m still fucking pissed. Criminals survive every day. Murderers and rapists and lunatics. But not her.”
“Life, in all the years I’ve been living it, son, doesn’t make a lick of sense where that’s concerned.”
― J. Rose Black, Chasing Headlines

tags: death, hardship, healing, loss, love, mental-health, sports, suspense, ya

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#4

“Water suddenly remembered their prior visit and questioned, “What was I saying when you left so abruptly? Oh yes, I was telling you that I was alive and sentient. I was going to explain to you that everything is alive. Everything is connected: you, me, the trees, the plants, the soil, and the rocks. Everything! Do you know how much of you is made up of me?”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

tags: balance, creative-parenting, emotional-intelligence, energy-awareness, growth-mindset, kindness-matters, living-ecosystems, masaru-emoto, parental-guidance, words-matter

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#5

“I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When did you get in?’ We mainly just talked to get familiar with each other.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

tags: grief, humour, imagination, literary-fiction, love, neighbours, rural-fiction, small-town, small-town-fiction

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#6

“Waiting for the correct time to descend for cocktails, Mary sat on her bed and reviewed her impressions of the house party one by one. Belinda Choudhry M. P. she knew least. As mother of murdered Perdita, she was sure to be a volatile addition.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, insight, mystery, profound, unpredictable

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#7

“The Word of God tells us this: “Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers” (Ephesians 4:11 NLT).”
― Kathryn Krick, The Secret of the Anointing: Accessing the Power of God to Walk in Miracles

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#8

“Not me," said Orion cheerily. "I'm just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may I say ,young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction."
Holly lifted her visor and looked the hormonal teenager in the eye. "This had better not be a game, Artemis. If you do not have some serious psychosis, you will be sorry."
"Oh, I'm crazy, alright. I do have plenty of psychoses," said Orion Cheerily. "Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.”
― Eoin Colfer

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#9

“She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small guilts and small reproaches, constant weariness, and unending despair. Without ever wanting to become reserved and shy, she had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

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#10

“Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#11

“Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

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#12

“Elli-" Neve lies down next to him. "It is not easy being friend with someone who has depression. Not because it's a burden, but because you love them. So their pain becomes your own." She rests her hand on his chest. "You really expect me to just sit by and do nothing ?”
― Nelou Keramati, Resonance

tags: friendship

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#13

“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”
― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

tags: hope

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compelling
connection
exciting
love
personal-growth
resilience
seductive
self-discovery
societal-expectations
unbridled-desire
deep
descriptive
fiction
make-believe
meaningful
nature
refreshing
romance
self-reflecting
death
hardship
healing
loss
mental-health
sports
suspense
ya
balance
creative-parenting
emotional-intelligence
energy-awareness
growth-mindset
kindness-matters
living-ecosystems
masaru-emoto
parental-guidance
words-matter
grief
humour
imagination
literary-fiction
neighbours
rural-fiction
small-town
small-town-fiction
action
adventure
danger
dramatic
fast-paced
insight
mystery
profound
unpredictable
friendship
hope