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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

“The pain was part of the joy of hooking a giant tarpon. It made no sense to complain about the consequences of success.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: competitive-spirit, fly-fishing, grit, outdoor-adventure, pain, pain-quotes, paradox, quote-of-the-day, sports-fiction, tarpon-fishing

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#3

“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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#4

“When a team is winning, the guides credit the angler and the anglers credit the guide.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: angler, fiction, fly-fishing, quotes, sports-fiction, sportsmanship, teamwork

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#5

“You create a winning team by combining a guide who can find the fish that don’t want to be found with an angler who can catch the fish that don’t want to be caught.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: angler, competitive, fish, fishing, fly-fishing, sports, sports-fiction, teamwork

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#6

“Sometimes, I think that we each inhabit alternative bubbles of reality.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: character-quotes, human-nature, literary-thriller, psychological-insight, thriller

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#7

“The power to destroy life was valued far more than the power to create it, as represented by a mother goddess.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: ancient-religion, archaeological-thriller, feminist-history, goddess-history, history, lost-civilizations, quote, quote-of-the-day

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#8

“I know the ship's sounds the way a person knows their own heartbeat not consciously, until something changes.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: ai-companion, character-driven-sci-fi, fiction, human-machine-bond, quiet-emotion, sci-fi, sci-fi-readers, science, science-fiction, space-opera

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#9

“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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#10

“A world that was struggling was not the same as a world that was unsalvageable.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: futures, hope, human-nature, human-nature-quotes, resilience, resilience-quotes, science-fiction

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#11

“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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#12

“What broke me was wildness, and wildness my salvation.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: fierce-beauty, healing-through-nature, personal-truth, poetry, soul-recovery, survival, transformation, wildness

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#13

“Rivers don’t sleep,
 dark forests rise,
 sodden roots shatter 
the concrete prison.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: dark-forest, elemental-imagery, lyrical-intensity, nature-power, poetry, resistance, untamed-life, wild-earth

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#14

“After years of toil and grief I turn and face forward in my unexpected seat on the train to Eden”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: eden-imagery, forward-motion, healing-journey, hope-after-grief, personal-transformation, poetry, redemption, resilience

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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

“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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#17

“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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#18

“Doesn’t matter how you feel,” said Janet. “It’s not about whether it’s fair. You’ll find the killer because you’re the only one on Holywell island who can.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

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

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#19

“Their branches shook as if trying to dislodge beetles crawling up their bony arms.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: atmospheric-reads, dark-fairytale-vibes, gothic-mood, london-nature, mystery-series, nature-imagery, urban-fantasy

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#20

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US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vulture”. He said, “When the day comes for me to meet my maker and account for my actions, the thing that I would be most proud of is the fact that I fought against and perhaps totally prevented the carrying out of one of the most hare-brained tactical schemes that would have cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of men!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: documented, factual, indochina-war, insightful, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

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#21

“Cung went to his section commander Corporal Binh Chien Bui and spoke to him. He said, “Binh, come quickly, something strange is going on!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: asia, documented, history-resource, leaders, political-dictatorship, research, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam

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#22

“Colonel Nguyen Van Tan said, “Sauget et Sang, you shall start making amends by confessing your crimes in public here, in this courtroom when the reporters from news services around the world arrive!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: destruction, difficulty, experience, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam

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#23

“On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war

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#24

“People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, vietnam, war, war-recount

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#25

“From up here, the world doesn’t seem so small and confining.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: christian-fantasy, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-journey, goodreads-quotes, hopeful-reads, perspective, perspective-quotes, quote-of-the-day

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#26

“Once you start liking someone, the truth is harder to see.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: christian-fantasy, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-journey, goodreads-quotes, hopeful-reads, perspective, perspective-quotes, quote-of-the-day

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#27

“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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#28

“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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#29

“A story is not only what it says. A story is what it does. It infects. Then it propagates.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: after-dark-reads, horror-readers, metafiction, power-of-stories, psychological, psychological-horror, psychological-thriller, psychological-unease, thought-provoking-reads, thriller

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#30

“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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