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#1

“You sound like you’re enjoying my suffering.”
― 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

“Please understand, Conception of a Dialysis Patient (the untold truths), is for those who have never crossed over, and experienced this world first hand. Tethered to a machine for survival, takes an emotional toll, yes on the patient, but family and friends as well. Anyone who draws breath needs to take this expedition. Dialysis patients, unfortunately, know their untold truths, so this may simply be confirmation of sorts, acknowledgement of their not being alone. This is the point of view of one patient, not a physician. I ask that you and others hear our voices. As the creator of the opus, I have firsthand experience. Removed from the machine, with my second transplant of a lifetime, I am certainly blessed.

My objective is to open everyone’s eyes and minds, especially those of you who never been tethered to a dialysis machine. From my perception, you will value the emotional charge, and destruction dialysis forces upon patients, and their families. Again, the goal is to enlighten, in a manner that is sure to linger, and have you examining your own predicaments.

I so appreciate you passing the word,
Please take that breath with us…

-Fayton”
― Fayton Hollington

tags: family-emotions

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#3

“Still, in 1877, Engels wanted to protect us from false socialism. Still then, in Anti-Dühring, he wrote that not any nationalization is socialist, because in the contrary case both Bismarck and Napoleon would have to be arranged among the founders of socialism.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: east-europe, economic-theory, effective, equality, historical, private-property, scientific-socialism, speculation, totalitarian, unity

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#4

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

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#5

“Fair enough, that's what most people look for to begin with, but money can be a sliding scale, the more you have, the more you want, the more you need,' McBlane said as he sharpened the ash on the tip of his cigar into a point against the rim of the ashtray. It gave him the appearance of wielding a dagger as he gestured with his cigar holding hand.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: visual-moments

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#6

“الخواء: هذا ما أفهمه! بدأتُ أقتنع أن ما من شيء يمكن أن يفعله المرء لإصلاحه، مهما حاول. هذا ما تعلمته من جلسات المعالجة النفسية: إن الفجوات في حياتك أمرٌ دائم. عليك أن تنمو من حولها مثلما تنمو الشجرة من حول الإسمنت. عليك أن تعيد تشكيل نفسك من خلالها.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

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#7

“Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down,
Wayside school is falling down my fair lady.

Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground,
Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady
.
Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore,
Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady.

We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more,
We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady.”
― Louis Sachar, Wayside School Is Falling Down

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#8

“Why did this war have to happen at all? Because humanity had to be shown where its godlessness was taking it.”
― Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

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#9

“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair

tags: foibles, ideals

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#10

“Machinery was so much easier to deal with than people. There was always a precise set of reasons why a machine may not be working, and there were always completely logical solutions. People were slippery and elusive, changeable and moody. You thought you understood them and then found out that you did not. You thought they loved you, and then they suddenly turned spiteful or indifferent.”
― Louis de Bernières, So Much Life Left Over

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#11

“I have a deep gratitude that Ida B exists.”
― Kate Dicamillo

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#12

“The interior of the Loomis house was silent in a way
that felt deliberate, as though the sound had been swept
up with yesterday’s dust. ”
― D.L. Maddox, Secrets

tags: drama, fantasy, ntense, psychological, psychological-thriller, supernatural, tense, thriller

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#13

“We need to call Glenn the Glimmer Wizard.”
― Robert Agnello, The Glimmers Save Christmas

tags: children-s-learning, discovery, fun, imagination, literature, love, mystery, story, warm

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#14

“Everyone was in position by 9 p.m. Merlin and Bridges had taken the Charing Cross conveniences, Johnson Leicester Square and Price Piccadilly Circus. It was agreed that Robinson would move back and forth between the three locations and act as a go-between.”
― Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer

tags: action, conflict, destruction, documented, drama, life, loyalty, secrets, unity, unrest

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#15

“Daring to raise my eyes,
I call out, a bird-like sound,
giving myself to this day,
abandoning desire
for all except you.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

tags: acceptance, accomplish, ambition, be-happy, believe, change, cherish, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, leadership

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#16

“There are lots of different kinds of bows and Cleo loves them all.”
― Sybrina Durant, Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story

tags: artistic, bed-time-story, bows, cognitive-functioning, educational, great-gift-books, learning-to-read, montessori, picture-book

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#17

“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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#18

“
The she-wolf visibly recoiled. “You speak with the dead? Then you are truly the one spoken of who has come to save us.” She stood immediately and gave a shrill howl to her pack, all the wolves in the glade sitting up with ears pricked. “I give you Two-heads,” called the she-wolf, “the shaman our elders foretold, he comes to save us from the predations of the men from the sky...”
― Graham Pryor, Cerberus

tags: action, drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, general, mystery, past, science

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#19

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma

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#20

“If the onset of wrinkles in middle age were referred to as laughter lines, then to look at him, Scott thought, Twinkle's life must have been hilarious. He had sharp eyes that often seemed to visually contradict the lack of intelligence that could be derived from listening to him talk. There might not be a lot to respect in Twinkle, but Scott liked him. He just didn't want to end up like him.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: descriptive-prose, empathetic

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#21

“I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, noir-mystery, nvestigation, thriller

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#22

“Above all, we must stick tightly in our cluster, so we do not lose each other. Understand?”
― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

tags: drama, evil, fantastical, fiction, history, honour, magic, magical, powerful

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#23

“Aye. I’m afraid for my immortal soul now.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: ancestry, courage, exploration, hatred, history, loss, romance, secrets, thrilling, victims

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#24

“It’s in English,” I call out as it comes into focus. “It says ‘Made in China.’” At first Sister Loretta thinks I must be wrong, but when she sees the words for herself, she explains to us that God anticipated that the Communists in China would create technology that makes medals, rosaries, and plastic figurines really cheaply, and He was ready to temporarily forgive them for not being a democracy and for being pagans if they were willing to sell these holy goods to us at a fantastic discount, which shows us that God, like everyone else, goes out of His way to get a good deal on something He really needs. Who doesn’t like a bargain?”
― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood

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#25

“Jake’s shirt and jeans gave off a business vibe with the hint of a wide range of corporate occupations from sales to IT. Only politicians and real estate agents wore a suit and tie these days. Dressed to push an agenda. A man wearing a two-piece suit and tie would be remembered and many people became guarded, sus of the wearer’s intention. Guarded meant memorable.
Blend into the environment; do not stick out.”
― Simon W. Clark, Dead Mercenary's Trail

tags: action, betrayal, conspiracy, covert, disguises, espionage, international-locations, political-thriller, spy-thriller, technothriller

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#26

“You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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#27

“I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called “A Voyage round the world.” ”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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#28

“Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

tags: christopher-mccandless, into-the-wild, supertramp, travel, travel-writer

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#29

“Los recuerdos que uno entierra en el silencio son los que nunca dejan de perseguirle”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus

tags: thriller

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