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#1

“Without their help, she feared they would all be lost forever.”
― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode

tags: adventure-reads, courage, fantasy, friendship, high-stakes, loyalty, middle-grade, teamwork

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#2

“It was 10:00 p.m., and their shift had ended four hours earlier, so they could turn their pagers off, a rare privilege.”
― Lin Wilder, Plausible Liars: A Dr. Lindsey McCall Medical Mystery 5

tags: frontline-medicine, goodreads-quotes, hospital-life, medical-thriller, night-shift, resilience, workplace-reality

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#3

“The Ganeva conference on Indochina agreements stated that the south of Vietnam would be handed over to a provisional administration after two years at the most and that general elections would be held in 1956 at the latest, giving Vietnam a single and united government. (due to American actions, the agreements were never put into place)”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: american-army, commandos, defence, freedom, french-army, liberation, nvasion, special-forces, strength, war

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#4

“Everything seemed complicated then.”
― J. Rose Black, The Real Ones

tags: book-quotes, emotional-romance, fresh-start, growing-up, healing-journey, heartache-to-hope, past-and-present, romance-readers, second-chance-romance

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#5

“Even if you are an introvert, you’ll still find many possibilities for meeting others. Everyone is so welcoming, and you will make friends regardless because the town is small!”
― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University

tags: campus-life, ie-university, international-students, introvert-friendly, new-student-tips, nonfiction, student-community

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#6

“I do not recommend jumpsuits or rompers on safari drives. You may need to relieve yourself in the bush. The last thing you want is to be entirely butt naked and look up to find a wild animal staring you down.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: classy-woman, female-travellers, safari, style-quotes, travel, travel-quotes

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#7

“This shouldn’t be happening. I’ve spent many nights pushing aside my memories of her. But in the blink of an eye, here she is resetting my fantasies as if it were yesterday”
― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance

tags: can-t-forget-her, emotional-romance, heart-vs-head, old-flame-energy, romance-readers, second-chance-romance, tension-on-sight, uninvited-feelings, yearning

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#8

“Happy memories are like lifesavers, keeping us buoyant amid stormy seas and changing times.”
― Rich DiSilvio

tags: inspirational-quotes, memories, reflection-on-life, reflections, uplifting-quotes

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#9

“forget what you know”
― John C. Waugh, busted haiku

tags: fresh-start, micro-poetry, mindfulness, minimalist-poetry, poetry, poetry-lovers, reflective-reads, zen-vibes

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#10

“Anyone who says "Trust me" is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: humour, life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, writer

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#11

“The price be one copper. Tis a wee price for salvation, Noble One.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: fantasy, fate, irony, moral-cost, quote-worthy, religion, street-wisdom, temptation

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#12

“Taught us all a lesson about the kindness of strangers, eh?” Tiny said.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animal, animalfriendship, feelgoodfiction, fictionalread, foundfamily, kidlit, kindnessmatters, lo, middlegrade, neighborhoodstories

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#13

“She felt a small shudder of fear. Fear was always a part of life for the people. Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting. There was fear of cold, of sickness and hunger. There was fear of beasts.”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

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#14

“My best seller was Golden Stream, written under my pen name of I.P. Daly.”
― Kyle Keyes, Quantum Roots

tags: scifi, scifi-adventure

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#15

“Love is a clash of lightnings”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: beautiful, love, poetry, spanish, true

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#16

“I'm like a machine being run over its RPM limit: The bearings are overheating - a minute longer, and the metal is going to melt and start dripping and that'll be the end of everything. I need a quick splash of cold water, logic. I pour it on in buckets, but the logic hisses on the hot bearings and dissipates in the air as a fleeting white mist.

Well, of course, it's clear that you can't establish a function without taking into account what its limit is. And it's also clear that what I felt yesterday, that stupid "dissolving in the universe," if you take it to its limit, is death. Because that's exactly what death is - the fullest possible dissolving of myself into the universe. Hence, if we let L stand for love and D for death, then L = f (D), i.e., love and death...”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

tags: death, love

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#17

“Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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#18

“I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw...”
― Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family

tags: humanity, race

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#19

“We imagine our paths are freely chosen. But there is a need to account for biology and history, the random intercession of other people, culture, race, and the mystery of the transcendent. ”
― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege

tags: big-questions, book-club, criminal-justice, human-behavior, memoir, narrative-nonfiction, nonfiction-reads, race-and-culture, social-context, thought-provoking

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#20

“This was getting worse by the minute.”
― J L MARRAIN, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

tags: adventure, book-quotes, fantasy, high-stakes, page-turner, relatable, tension

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#21

“So far we’re just stumbling along pretending we know what we’re doing.”
― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode

tags: adventure, book-quotes, courage, fantasy, friendship, humor, kid-lit, middle-grade, real-talk

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#22

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: philosophical-musings, reflection

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#23

“How lovely. He’d forgotten how magical the Edwardses’ garden was, an oasis of green paths, flowering bushes, and jasmine-covered archways.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animal-story, beautiful-setting, calm-moments, cozy-reads, feel-good-fiction, heartwarming, kids-books, middle-grade, nature-vibes

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#24

“Think of it as your very own movie montage!”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: closet-edit, confident-packing, outfit-planning, packing-tips, style-routine, travel-prep, travel-style

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#25

“Dear Lord! I can’t wait to tell Mom and Cho I brought my lunch in a saddlebag and shared my sandwich and cookies with a den of rattlesnakes!”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: adventure-vibes, best-friend-energy, coming-of-age, fish-out-of-water, humor, memoir-feel-fiction, rural-life, share-worthy

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#26

“Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern.”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: action, ancestry, discovery, family, family-history, future, history, literary-fiction, love, suspense

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#27

“So, let me get this right. You invented this groundbreaking medical technology that changes the way we literally do everything in trauma and blood, and you are out here, 30.3 light-years away from Earth, on a planet where everyone involved in the Eden project was a hundred percent sure there’d be no DNA, blood, or anything? And now here we are playing with the DNA of an alien race? What is this? What is actually going on here?”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: alien-dna, bio-tech, deep-space, ethics-in-science, first-contact, genetic-engineering, hard-sci-fi, medical-sci-fi, science-gone-wrong, space-exploratio

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#28

“If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

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

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#29

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: love

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#30

“If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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