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“He dropped the phone back onto its cradle, began to turn around and felt a sudden ice-cold furrow open up in his side. Strength drained from his legs, and a moment later he sank to his knees. There was warmth now that ran over the initial and persistent cold.

Mohammed was confused, and barely noticed the briefcase being removed from his grip. He heard the click of a cell phone opening, and a soft beeping as a number was dialed.

'The package is in my possession,' a female voice said, and the phone clicked shut.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: assassin, death-and-dying, descriptive-prose

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“Hours passed—or maybe days. It didn’t matter. The body adapted. But the mind—
The mind needed purpose.
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― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

tags: complexity, dark-humour, drama, dramatic, emotionally-charged, fiction, heart-wrenching, human-fragility, intrigue, thriller

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“But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, murder, psychological, suspense, thriller

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#4

“Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#5

“Of course, during the centuries the justice was always a rather elastic term, but always till now and “everywhere the justice is the same thing – the usefully for the stronger” (Plato, The Republic).”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: civil-society, class-inequality, democrats, dictatorship, oppression, political, political-system, scientific-socialism, socialism, unity

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#6

“Holding to each other
we burn back the pressing dark
with the fire we've tended,
alone together beside the river,
quiet as the trees.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

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

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#7

“What’s plan B?” "I don’t know sir I’m still working on plan A.”
― Robert Agnello, The Glimmers Save Christmas

tags: bond, friends, happiness, heartbreak, inspiring, loss, love, magical, pets, special-bond

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#8

“… One thing was clear – the trek would be a terrible test of endurance before it was over. There was always another thought too – the Japs. Were they giving chase? Nobody knew and few now cared … Captain Gribble”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

tags: battles, death, desperation, determination, fear, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, grit, veterans

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#9

“The fights are always the same”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: family, relationships

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#10

“Begbie doesnae even notice; he's in his element, particularly good at funerals in the way a lot ay psychopaths tend tae be. Ah suppose if bringing death and despair is yir life's work, then being somewhere like this must feel like a result; the job's already done and you can just kick back and relax.”
― Irvine Welsh, Skagboys

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#11

“I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#12

“George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

tags: faith, george-macdonald, suffering

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#13

“There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

tags: bombing, books, death, hiroshima, japan, ways-to-die, world-war-ii, wwii

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#14

“From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance”
― The Dalai Lama

tags: philosophy, science

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