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#1

“She lay in darkness so thick she could feel its pressure all around her.”
― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode

tags: adventure-reads, atmospheric, dark-fantasy-vibes, fantasy, fear, middle-grade, resilience, survival

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#2

“Love Has Neither Time Nor Distance.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: loveacrosstime, metaphysicalfiction, philosophicalromance, soulconnection, thepythagorean, timelesslove

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#3

“Everything is more expensive. There is so much more to do in Madrid, so you’ll have to learn to say no to events so you can study.”
― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University

tags: college-advice, madrid-life, nonfiction, priorities, student-life-balance, study-habits, time-management

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#4

“I have MPS, a marsupial positioning system”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animal-adventure, character-voice, humor, kids-books, lighthearted, middle-grade, overconfident-hero, read-aloud, talking-animals

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#5

“Inside he was hurt. Not so much with Linda, but his failure to impress women generally with his abilities. There she was, an example: lending – no, giving –thirty thousand pounds to a smooth-talking old bastard, but she would not part with a penny to him after living with him for a year or more.”
― 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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#6

“A wise man, my father, always said, a bitter root bears bitter fruit and then he’d point to the crucifix on the mantel adding . . . he’s the only one who had the right to be bitter and wasn’t.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

tags: action, action-thriller, anger, family-life, favorites, fiction, forgiveness, pain

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#7

“Although London is known for many things, a fashion-forward capital is not one of them.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: london, london-quotes, london-weather

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#8

“I hear I'm stronger than I look.”
― J. Rose Black, The Real Ones

tags: book-quotes, comeback-energy, confidence, empowerment, new-adult-romance, resilience, self-worth, sports-romance, strong-heroine

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#9

“Alick grabbed the seat arms tightly, trying to keep tears from his eyes as they backed away from the world he had known.” ”
― J L MARRAIN, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

tags: bittersweet, book-quotes, character-journey, coming-of-age, fantasy, new-beginnings, resilience

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#10

“Storm-grey eyes, broad shoulders encased in a dark blue suit jacket. Jaw carved from some righteous, attorney-like stone. My brother Evan's old friend. My teenage crush. And now, to my surprise, my new boss.”
― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance

tags: forbidden-attraction, long-time-crush, new-boss, page-turner-romance, romancebooks, slow-burn-tension, suited-up, swoony-moments, workplace-romance

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#11

“Everyone, including Robbin’ Robin, dashed for the house as rain hammered down on them, Mary slammed the back door shut just as the sky split open.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: action-scene, cinematic-writing, high-tension, page-turner, stormy-reads, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery

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#12

“In one way, it feels like six lifetimes, and yet I clearly recall my days of running along the beach of the Tarsus coast with my sisters, playing hide-and-seek behind the dunes.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

tags: ancient-world, biblical-fiction, childhood, family, heartfelt, historical-fiction, memory, nostalgia

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#13

“They looked young, even Nevil, who’d had his teeth knocked out, while the aunts—Ruth, Raylene, Alma, and even Mama—seemed old, worn-down, and slow, born to mother, nurse, and clean up after the men.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

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#14

“They would probably never even know that the human race existed. Such monumental indifference was worse than any deliberate insult. When”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

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#15

“Moyers: But if God is the god we have only imagined, how can we stand in awe of our own creation?
Campbell: How can we be terrified by a dream? You have to break past your image of God to get through to the connoted illumination. The psychologist Jung has a relevant saying: "Religion is a defense against the experience of God."
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There is a Hindu saying, "None but a god can worship a god." You have to identify yourself in some measure with whatever spiritual principle your god represents to you in order to worship him properly and live according to his word.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

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#16

“Se comprendere è impossibile, conoscere è necessario, perché ciò che è accaduto può ritornare, le coscienze possono nuovamente essere sedotte es oscurate: anche le nostre.
Per questo, meditare su quanto è avvenuto è un dovere di tutti. Tutti devono sapere, o ricordare, che Hitler e Mussolini, quando parlavano pubblicamente, venivano creduti, applauditi, ammirati, adorati come dei. Erano “capi carismatici”, possedevano un segreto potere di seduzione che non procedeva dalla credibilità o dalla giustezza delle cose che dicevano, ma dal modo suggestivo con cui le dicevano, dalla loro eloquenza, dalla loro arte istrionica, forse istintiva, forse pazientemente esercitata e appresa. Le idee che proclamavano non erano sempre le stesse, e in generale erano aberranti, o sciocche, o crudeli; eppure vennero osannati, e seguiti ino alla loro morte da milioni di fedeli.”
― Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

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#17

“Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

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#18

“Some people need a picture. Any great religion has to be inclusive. And to be inclusive you have to accommodate different levels of sophistication.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

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#19

“And it’s rather odd, because Nast is often nasty.” As Marc chuckled, Roosevelt continued, “But to my delight, he, too, has treated me fairly, at least thus far.”
― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age

tags: dry-humor, gilded-age, historical-fiction, historical-vibes, political-history, quote-share, real-figures-in-fiction, theodore-roosevelt

63 likes

#20

“Trust me. You have to trust me.”
― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode

tags: book-quotes, courage, emotional-reads, fantasy, found-family, friendship, kid-lit, middle-grade, trust

64 likes

#21

“I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives though. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?” “You insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you think of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be you. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.” “You mean you don't hate me?” This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him. He was used to hate, he could deal with it, but this he could not understand, he had used the girl ruthlessly and yet she did not hate him.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, action-and-adventure, action-thriller, favourite-books, suspense, thriller, thriller-writing

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#22

“Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: descriptive-prose, lust, strippers

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#23

“Nguyen said, “Ho and I shall return to our positions on the deck, where we are keeping watches of two people on duty for two hours at a time.”

He then continued, he said, “Cung, from what you have told me, you appear to be a loyal citizen of Vietnam. Yet, you are being hunted by the Vietnamese security organisations!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: action, battlefield, brothers, chaos, conflict, corruption, danger, peace, soldier, technical

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#24

“Even whispers were not tolerated in the Pietà when someone else was speaking.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: ambition, coming-of-age, growth, historical-fiction, pieta, resilience, self-determination, women-in-history

206 likes

#25

“Iron Mike was learning how to love.”
― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege

tags: character-change, compassion, faith, healing, human-growth, love-and-learning, memoir, redemption, second-chances, transformative-reads

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#26

“The colors were brighter, the air was fresher, and the flowers more beautiful than any that the teens had ever seen.”
― J.L. Marrain, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

tags: beautiful-places, escapist-reads, fantasy, nature-magic, portal-fantasy, sense-of-wonder, worldbuilding, ya

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#27

“Prepare to experience a paradigm shift.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: capsule-method, confident-travel, intentional-living, packing-system, style-upgrade, travel-mindset, travel-transformation

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#28

“Music Is the Language of Emotions”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: art-and-soul, creative-life, emotional-truth, human-experience, music-lovers, philosophical-fiction, reading-mood

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#29

“Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous, and yet absolutely everyone does it, so that it is the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing who feels out of place and uncomfortable and self-conscious . . . in a word, ridiculous. Right out of Kafka: the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing is the person who is ridiculous. [...] Modern party-dance is an evil thing.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System

tags: conformity, dancing, humor

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#30

“Of the four men in Preston Prichard’s cabin, D-90, only one survived, his friend Arthur Gadsden. Prichard’s body was never recovered, yet in the red volume that now contains the beautifully archived replies to Mrs. Prichard’s letters there exists a surprisingly vivid sense of him, as though he resided still in the peripheral vision of the world.”
― Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

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