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#1

“You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise.”
[Anna] aimed her defiance at Mary.
“And you? What’s your reason to hate me?”
Caroline spoke quietly. “We nearly died — in the fire in those mountains and at the house when Ravi had a gun pointed at us.” Her eyes were full of tears. “The fire you set at The Old Hospital could have killed me as well as Janet and Agnes.”
Anna muttered into the syrupy dregs of her tea. “Fire, you’re firing me?”
Mary grimaced. There had been too much fire.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, detective, fiction, fiction-novel, murder, realistic, thriller

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#2

“Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, exciting, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit

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#3

“his throat, but his voice remained”
― Victoria Dougherty, The Bone Church

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#4

“This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.”
― Barack Obama

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#5

“What a charming place!” Bess remarked, as they reached a small, white, two-story colonial house surrounded by a white picket fence with a gate. Flowers, especially old-fashioned American varieties, grew in profusion in the front yard.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Clue in the Old Stagecoach

tags: colonial, flowers, garden, house, the-clue-in-the-old-stagecoach

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#6

“I find that if I remind myself (frequently) that the purpose of life isn’t to get it all done but to enjoy each step along the way and live a life filled with love, it’s far easier for me to control my obsession with completing my list of things to do.”
― Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff

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#7

“It is possible for the same circumstances that draw two souls together to keep them forever at arm’s length. Herein lies the truth of love, and the essence of all tragedy.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

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#8

“Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

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#9

“The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: bird, birds, robin

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#10

“She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

tags: books, conversation, life, love, sharing, smile, soulmate, talking, true-love

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#11

“كنت أسمع اسمي ولا أري نفسي،
كنت منشغلا بنفسي، لكني أبدا لم أكن مستحقا لها
وحين كان و خرجت من نفسي....
وجدت.. نـفسـي”
― جلال الدين الرومي

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#12

“It occurs to Blanche that English doesn't have French's useful distinction between libre, meaning that something's unconstrained, and gratuit, meaning that it costs nothing. Free thought, free speech, free love: the English word that Arthur was so fond of obscures the price of things.”
― Emma Donoghue, Frog Music

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#13

“Every step which she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion as an individual.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

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#14

“But the fraud being once established, could not afterward be explained, for it is with a pious fraud as with a bad action, it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

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#15

“They passed through a marbled rotunda and Sarah gasped. Heading straight for them was a stampeding herd of skeletal animals, their bleached bones and empty eye-sockets shimmering in sunlight that flooded the vast hall from overhead windows.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: drama, fiction, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, murder-mystery, mystery, noir, noir-mystery, organised-crime, secrets

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#16

“Right now, is not the time to strike at the Romans, but it will come, and we will all rise and wipe out the invaders!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1

tags: battle-reads, epic-saga, freedom-fighters, germania, historical-fiction, resistance, roman-empire

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#17

“This wasn’t a place built for convenience. It was built for discretion. For privacy. For control.”
― D.L. Maddox, THE SUPER: A CONSPIRACY THRILLER

tags: conspiracy, conspiracy-thriller, control, dark-suspense, quote-of-the-day, secrets, suspense-thriller, thriller, thrillers-mystery

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#18

“It is time to tell your story without feeling ashamed. This is how you heal.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

tags: emotional-healing, healing-journey, inner-child-healing, memoir, self-worth, survivor-story, trauma-recovery

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#19

“The music felt like a special gift from Ted, a view into his soul.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

tags: book-club-reads, emotional-reads, family-saga, first-love, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, music-in-fiction

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#20

“He was probably wasting his time, but a capacity for idle curiosity was no handicap for a policeman.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

tags: character-voice, crime-fiction, crime-reads, crime-thriller, detective-fiction, detective-novel, dry-wit, historical-mystery, mystery-suspense, police-procedural

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#21

“It’s exceedingly difficult for employees to have the company’s back when they can’t trust the company to have theirs. Actually, it’s impossible.”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

tags: empathy, fairness, guidebook, hr-professionals, leadership, organisational-behavior, reality-check, structure, tips-and-tricks, work

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#22

“There’s no point in fighting me on this. Wherever you go, one, or both of us will be with you. Period. Get used to it. Short of actually sleeping on your doorstep, I’m going to follow you everywhere. I’m going to be so close that if you turn your head for a breath I’ll be there to give you mouth-to-mouth. So, you may as well just give in and take me with you. It’ll save us both a lot of time and frustration.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: dark, drama, dramatic, emotionally-charged, hardship, romantic, suspense, tense

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#23

“Tomorrow. Although she knew better than to trust the word, hope like habit was difficult to break.”
― JoDee Neathery, Wings Against The Wind

tags: book-club-fiction, contemporary-fiction, emotional-reads, heartache, hope, longing, womens-fiction

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#24

“I love your farm, you know I do, but this is your passion. I’m figuring out what mine is. I’m good at marketing. My supervisor says I have a good eye and creative ideas.”
― Maria Jane, Perfect

tags: ambition, book-club-reads, contemporary-romance, finding-yourself, romance, self-discovery, womens-fiction

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#25

“This ground itself needs to be properly accounted for by that for which it accounts, that is, by the causation through the supremely original matter – and that is the cause as causa sui. This is the right name for the god of philosophy. Man can neither pray nor sacrifice to this god. Before the causa sui, man can neither fall to his knees in awe nor can he play music and dance before this god.”
― Martin Heidegger

tags: ontology

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#26

“You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: youth

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#27

“The nauseating liquid choked the dog’s breathing and his head began to spin, then his legs collapsed and he seemed to be moving sideways. This is it, he thought dreamily as he collapsed on to the sharp slivers of glass. Goodbye, Moscow! I shan’t see Chichkin or the proletarians or Cracow sausages again. I’m going to the heaven for long-suffering dogs. You butchers – why did you have to do this to me? With that he finally collapsed on to his back and passed out.” Chapter 2”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

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