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#1

“A look of absolute terror locked onto her features.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#2

“We are greater than our problems and stronger than our adversaries, but these are the times that try a man to determine his core truths, and his faith.”
― Guy Morris, Swarm

tags: crime, danger, drama, fantasy, fast-paced, intrigue, noir-thriller, suspense, thriller

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#3

“Cairo. An inter-services game of cricket was in progress in the lush grounds behind him as Powell made his way through the grand portal of the Gezira Sporting Club. It was a hot and humid day and Powell was dripping with sweat. A fellow officer had given him a lift for part of the way but he had had to walk the last mile. Uniformed Egyptian attendants bowed and guided him through the lobby towards the bar, where he could see his host with a drink already in hand.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

tags: commandos, courage, defence, freedom, french-army, liberation, ptsd, special-forces, strength, war

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#4

“Lev was a man who appreciated the finer things in life. To him, Maeve was one of them.”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

tags: detective, devastating, fighting, investigation, mystery-series, private-investigator, secrets, survival, threats, violence

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#5

“… the primitive comprehension that the state property represents a social one, their identification, and their equalization could not resist the criticism of the time. The state property is not socialism. The state-monopoly property, as it was on the both sides of the Berlin Wall and which continues to be such one even after it dropped down, is not social property. There was never and nowhere any socialism! In the twentieth century, we passed through a system of utopian socialism as proof that this was not socialism that was not possible, but the utopia of the writers before Marx and after Marx. We were visited by a utopian socialism, which at the contemporary stage is simply capitalism—state, monopolistic.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: civil-society, democratic, freedom, justice, liberty, monopolistic, myth, oppression, society, totalitarian-system

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#6

“The first thing that caught her eye was the three words Aonaibh Ri Chéile. The words burned her soul like a brand.
Quietly she said to Audun, “Please take that thing back to where you got it. I can’t bear the sight of it.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

tags: action, cruel, drama, greed, history, power, trilogy, truth, war, wealth

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#7

“ “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: documented, fiction, historical, recount-of-war, truth, unity, unrest, war, warring, world

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#8

“His dark hair was tousled from the wind, the
kind of mess that looked accidental but somehow perfect.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: Secrets

tags: complexity, dark-humour, drama, dramatic, fiction, funny, heart-wrenching, heartwarming, intrigue, thriller

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#9

“Alice watched and listened and focused beyond the words the actress spoke. She saw her eyes become desperate, searching, pleading for truth. She saw them land softly and gratefully on it. Her voice felt at first tentative and scared. Slowly, and without getting louder, it grew more confident and then joyful, playing sometimes like a song. Her eyebrows and shoulders and hands softened and opened, asking for acceptance and offering forgiveness. Her voice and body created an energy that filled Alice and moved her to tears. She squeezed the beautiful baby in her lap and kissed his sweet-smelling head.
The actress stopped and came back into herself. She looked at Alice and waited.
“Okay, what do you feel?”
“I feel love. It’s about love.”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice

tags: love

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#10

“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: fuck-off

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#11

“Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.”
― Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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#12

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

tags: civilization, writers, writing

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#13

“Actually, I was the very lowest ranked member of the crew. I would only be “in command” if I were the only remaining person.”
What do you know? I’m in command”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

tags: humor

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#14

“Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?”
― Richard Carlson, PhD.

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