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#1

“He loved the eternal feeling of being on the water, in the zone, day after day as if time had stopped.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: fishing-fiction, fishing-quotes, flow-state, fly-fishing, outdoor-adventure, sports-fiction

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#2

“His mind was a cacophony of “woulda, coulda, shoulda” as they made their way back to the marina—nothing like a tournament to ruin a wonderful day of fishing.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: angler-life, competitive-spirit, fiction, fishing-humor, humor, sports-fiction, tournament-fiction, weekend-reads, wry-humor

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#3

“Death comes for us all, but I’m not going to sit home and wait for it. It’ll have to track me down. In the meantime, I’m going to live the life I want to live.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: aging, inspirational-fiction, inspirational-quotes, life-lessons, live-fully, outdoor-adventure, resilience

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#4

“The bottom line is this: it doesn’t matter what happened five minutes ago or what you want to do a minute from now or by the end of the day or the end of the tournament. The only thing that matters is what you’re doing now.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: fishing, fly-fishing, life-lessons, mental-game, mindfulness, present-moment, quote, reflective-reads, sports-fiction, tournament-fiction

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#5

“In his quest to be the best, he had squeezed all of the joy out of the most sublime fishing in the world.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: adventure, competitive, life-lessons, obsession, outdoors, resilience, sports-fiction

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#6

“Flipping through, the first thing she came across was a restaurant menu featuring animals and rodents in a reference to the starvation of residents during the Siege of Paris of 1870-71 − horse soup, dog cutlets, ragout of cat, roast ostrich, fricassee of rats and mice? The French and their obsession with food presentation.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: climatic, drama, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, fiction, intrigue, mystery, tense, unpredictable

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#7

“Quite," Detective Vidal pronounced as though he'd learned his English in a British finishing school. "Even Madame Rachel, who sat right beside, could not tell.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: action, crime-story, detective, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, mystery, thriller

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#8

“Beauty was a brief argument with time, and time always won.”
― Ashley Mark Mason, Lira

tags: aging, beauty, impermanence, mortality, passage-of-time, quiet-wisdom, romantic-fiction, speculative-fiction, time

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#9

“I have watched people survive great love,” she said. “I have watched others refuse to. It never told me who loved more.”
― Ashley Mark Mason, Lira

tags: bittersweet-reads, compassion, empathetic-readers, grief, human-connection, living-after-loss, love-and-loss, resilience, romantic-fiction, speculative-fiction

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#10

“I can’t promise never to scare you,” he said. “I can promise not to be reckless with your fear. That's different.”
― Ashley Mark Mason, Lira

tags: compassion, emotional-intimacy, emotional-safety, healthy-boundaries, learning-to-trust, romance-readers, slow-burn-romance, speculative-fiction, tenderness, vulnerability

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#11

“Some books weren't books at all, not really. They were proof that someone had been here.”
― Ashley Mark Mason, Lira

tags: books, human-connection, legacy, literary-fiction, loss, memory, memory-and-legacy, reading, speculative-fiction

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#12

“People leave Los Angeles because the county is a breeding ground for violent murders. You stay and flourish in Los Angeles because the county is a hotbed for homicides.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: action-packed, adventure, ear, exciting, fiction, full-package, heroes, intrigue, secrets, suspense

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#13

“Your reckless streak will be your best friend or your worst enemy.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: action, adventure, danger, heat, love, mafia, relationships, romance, underworld, violence

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#14

“Maybe it was Natalie’s round, mysterious cocoa colored eyes, the guts it took for a broad to chase crooks, that hooked him.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: action, adventure, danger, drama, erotica, fear, fiction, mafia, relationships, romance

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#15

“Attached to each arm, as well as the skirt, they looked like an attempt to grow wings. ”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: art-and-magic, ballet-aesthetic, dark-fairytale-vibes, goodreads-quotes, lyrical-prose, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery

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#16

“Puzzlement radiated from them, thought Mary, as if not recognizing that the beings staring at back at them were human.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: book-club-pick, human-nature, mirror-moments, social-commentary, thought-provoking, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery

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#17

“You’re wrong, Mr. Jeffreys. This Swan Lake is not giving up human bonds but finding release from human chains. The prince and swan princess get to live out their love in nature. The palace is what they need to escape from.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: climatic, drama, excitement, fiction-novel, mysterious, profound, suspense, tense, thriller

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#18

“Everyone, including Robbin’ Robin, dashed for the house as rain hammered down on them, Mary slammed the back door shut just as the sky split open.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: action-scene, cinematic-writing, high-tension, page-turner, stormy-reads, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery

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#19

“I’ve always found it curious how a coffin, if placed upright, resembles a doorway.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: dark-symbolism, existential-dread, gothic-atmosphere, late-night-reading, mortality, psychological-horror, psychological-thriller, the-uncanny, thriller, thriller-readers

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#20

“In public, she always won by being the first person to tell the story.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: manipulation, mind-games, narrative-control, power-dynamics, psychological, psychological-thriller, reputation, thriller, thriller-horror, thriller-readers

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#21

“Every story worth a damn is about getting inside someone else’s skin and living there. Not observing. Not empathizing. Living there. The rest is furniture.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: art-of-storytelling, books-about-writers, identity, immersive-reading, literary-readers, literary-thriller, metafiction, psychological, thriller, writers-who-read

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#22

“I had walked through a door he’d simply left open. And I’d done it voluntarily, glass of scotch in hand, thinking I was the one in control.” “The world kept rearranging itself while I wasn’t looking.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: illusion-of-control, psychological, psychological-suspense, psychological-tension, psychological-thriller, self-deception, suspense-readers, temptation, thrillers-mystery, vulnerability

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#23

“I looked back down at the cursive. Not because it made sense, but because it felt aimed. Not at me. Past me. Toward whoever would come next.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: after-dark-reads, hidden-meaning, metafiction, power-of-words, psychological-horror, psychological-thriller, psychological-unease, suspense-readers, thriller, unsettling-reads

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#24

“There is no kindness in showing people a door they cannot open.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: cosmic-mystery, curiosity, forbidden-knowledge, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi-adventure, space, space-opera

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#25

“People just need to be near other people when something has happened that is too large to process alone.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: community, emotions, empathy, empathy-quotes, human-connection, human-emotions, human-nature, quote-of-the-day, science-fiction

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#26

“I felt it as a G-force that building pressure that starts in your chest and spreads outward, reminding you that you have mass and the universe has more.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: cosmic-scale, future-tech, galactic-adventure, sci-fi-readers, science-fiction, space-opera, space-travel

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#27

“But the longing was there. That inexplicable human conviction, older than language, that the stars are not simply out there that they are, in some way that resists articulation, home.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: belonging, cosmic-wonder, human-origins, sci-fi, sci-fi-readers, science, science-fiction, space, space-opera, starbound

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#28

“I felt calm well, maybe not calm but safe. For the first time during a Montana thunderstorm, I did feel safe.”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: comfort-reads, coming-of-age, courage, emotional-fiction, healing, new-beginnings, rural-life, safety

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#29

“I won’t lie, it scares the dickens out of me to be outside when the lightning starts flashing its light-up-the-sky daggers,”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: atmospheric, character-voice, coming-of-age, courage, fear-and-bravery, rural-life, vivid-writing, weather-mood

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#30

“Before a wall 
of ancient stone,
 I place prayers 
in cracks of silence.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: ancient-stone, contemplative-writing, poetry, prayer, quiet-faith, sacred-spaces, silence, spiritual-reflection

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