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    Margarita Barresi
    “You boys must always remember your roots, everything that makes you Puerto Rican. Don’t ever lose the stain of the plantain,” Isa said.”
    ― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage
    tags: ballrooms, betrayal, family-dynamics, historical-puerto-rican-society, intimate, loyalty, lush, nostalgia, period-fiction, rebellion
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “His remains consigned to the elements and wolves, would scattered across the March.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: destruction, fast-paced, gripping, humans, irreversible-damage, literary-fiction, mission, struggles, threat, turmoil
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    “The birth of quantum physics brought science and spirituality into alignment. It was the realization by physicists that photons have consciousness, and not just limited consciousness, but awareness of the entire cosmos.”
    ― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
    tags: consciousness, cosmos, energetics, physics, quantum-energetics, quantum-physics, quantum-theory, science, spirituality, vibrations
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    “The blast of hot air lifted Tazeem from his feet and threw him onto his back in the road. He blinked up into the night sky; raindrops glowed orange as they fell towards the earth.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: descriptive-prose, explosion
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    Sara Pascoe
    “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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    Susanna Kaysen
    “Five-minute. Fitfteen-minutes. Half-hour checks. Some nurses said, "Checks," when they opened the door. Click, turn the knob, swish, open the door, "Checks," swish, pull the door shut, turn the knob. Five-minute checks. Not enough time to drink a cup of coffee, read three pages of a book, take a shower.”
    ― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
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    Philippa Gregory
    “You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.”
    ― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl
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    Frederick Forsyth
    “That…be not told of my death, Or made to grieve on account of me, And that I be not buried in consecrated ground, And that no sexton be asked to toll the bell, And that nobody is wished to see my dead body, And that no mourners walk behind me at my funeral, And that no flowers be planted on my grave, And that no man remember me, To this I put my name. —Thomas Hardy”
    ― Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War
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    Jack London
    “I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
    ― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman
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    John Steinbeck
    “We could live offa the fatta the lan'.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
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  • #11
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
    ― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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