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    Max Nowaz
    “Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
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    Susan Rowland
    “If it’s the next storm, perhaps it’s going the other way.” “Goddess, I hope so,” said Dorothy, grimacing at her tea.
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    ― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders
    tags: found-family, hope-in-darkness, stormy-reads, tea-and-books, urban-fantasy, weekend-read, witchy-mystery
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    “Seeing all the kids pick out different books brings a smile to her face.”
    ― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words
    tags: book-joy, book-lovers, kids-reading, library-life, picture-book, read-aloud, storytime
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    David Øybo
    “Also, one day I’ll likely just end up as the art teacher at the Godshus Upper School,” she judged, realistically.”
    ― David Øybo, Julebord: The Holiday Party
    tags: character-voice, crime-fiction, human-stories, nordic-setting, quiet-realism, reflective-moments, small-town-life, understated-humor
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    “Theo, always remember that if you’ve learned something useful and haven’t put it into practice, it’s not ‘knowledge,’ it’s just ‘information.’ Information becomes knowledge only when it finds an application in real life. That is very important to remember.”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh
    tags: alexandermorpheigh, appliedwisdom, bookquotes, innerwork, lifelonglearning, mindfulreading, philosophicalfiction, thepythagorean
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “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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    Anne Allen
    “It was strange to be on her own back in the cottage until Annabel reminded herself she wasn’t technically alone.”
    ― Anne Allen, The Ghost of Seagull Cottage: Inspired by The Ghost and Mrs Muir
    tags: atmospheric-reads, banter, cozy-paranormal, ghost-story, haunted-cottage, living-with-a-ghost, night-read, spooky-cozy
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    “To whomever swapped my tattoo cream for toothpaste........ well played.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: humour, humourous-situations, tattoo, tattoos
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    K. Ritz
    “This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, engaging, exciting, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery
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    JoDee Neathery
    “I’m pretty sure she’s got an angel job now where she plucks a large handful of flowers and carries them up to God where they will bloom even brighter than on earth.”
     
    Can we ask God to bring her back home?”
    You know what, she’s already home.” Starla patted her chest. “She’ll always be right here in our hearts.”
    But I can’t give her a hug.”
     
    Yes, you can . . . if you hug yourself or me or Willa or Daddy or Big Pop or GoGo you’re hugging her because she’s a part of us.”
    ― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush
    tags: fiction, fiction-novel, guilt, love, mystery, redemption, romance, sorrow, suffering
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    J. Rose Black
    “Warm, aquamarine eyes stared into him—providing a lifeline to shore. And he wondered if she was really the one who needed saving . . .”
    ― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath
    tags: adversity, drama, funny, love, ptsd, relationship, romance, romantic-comedy, spicy, witty
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    Leon Uris
    “Until a man is struck in his own face he does not want to believe the attack on his brother concerns him.”
    ― Leon Uris
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    Milan Kundera
    “Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass!

    The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: kitsch
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    Daniel Defoe
    “Man is a short-sighted creature, sees but a very little way before him; and as his passions are none of his best friends, so his particular affections are generally his worst counselors.”
    ― Daniel Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
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    Oliver Sacks
    “إذا فقد رَجُلا رِجلا أو عَينا، فهو يعرف أنه فقد رِجلا أو عَينا، و لكن إذا فقد نفسا-نفسه-فليس بإمكانه أن يعرف ذلك، لأنه لم يعد موجودا هناك ليعرف”
    ― أوليفر ساكس, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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    Johanna Spyri
    “—Las flores prefieren estar en el prado al sol y no en tu delantal”
    ― Johanna Spyri, Heidi
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    Toni Morrison
    “Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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