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    Isham Cook
    “It freed them up to do as they wish, not because it was forbidden but because the entire moral order was defunct and irrelevant.”
    ― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison
    tags: dark-humor, fiction, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, rebellion, social-outsiders, transgressive-fiction
    60 likes

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    “Learning who we truly are on the inside gives us the confidence of being ourselves regardless of the place or person.”
    ― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child
    tags: confidence, emotional-healing, healing-journey, inner-child-healing, personal-growth, self-discovery, self-worth
    96 likes

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    Lotchie Burton
    “It wasn’t easy to walk away from one life, disappear, then start another.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge
    tags: bookquotes, lifequotes, quotes-of-the-day, romantic-suspense, starting-over-quotes, survivor-strength, womeninfiction
    39 likes

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    Theasa Tuohy
    “In those happy days before Notre Dame Cathedral burned and Paris streets became thick with electric scooters.”
    ― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth
    tags: action, adventure, drama, dramatic, fast-paced, investigation, mystery, thriller
    72 likes

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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “The moisture in the air sat in the crevices of storefront windows, like the tears that welled in the corners of her dark brown eyes.”
    ― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
    tags: coming-of-age, emotional-reads, grief, historical-fiction, lyrical-prose, strong-heroine, venice
    449 likes

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  • #6
    “You cannot!' Tatiana said sharply. 'If you order a gun there is only a single shot, and once delivered the doors are locked and will not open until it has been fired.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: dangerous-games, dangerous-liaisons, impending-doom
    346 likes

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  • #7
    “She knew how people slipped through cracks—not all at once, but in layers.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel
    tags: drama, excitement, fiction-novel, fictional, horror, psychological-thriller, redemptive, self-actualisation, tense, thriller
    131 likes

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    Joseph A. Anderson
    “Clarity of purpose often comes from wandering through mistakes”
    ― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b
    tags: am-writing, author-quotes, creative-process, fail-forward, growth-mindset, revision-life, writer-life, writers-of-instagram, writing-community, writing-quote
    143 likes

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    Mark Ellis
    “Sporadically cars drove past him, their drivers groping their way through the treacly darkness with blinkered headlights.”
    ― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders
    tags: crime-fiction, crime-thriller, historical-fiction, historical-thriller, london, thriller, war-time
    56 likes

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    Behcet Kaya
    “So, wait. Now I’m confused. What about the senator’s son, the guy that fell? The Olmsteds hired you to investigate their son’s death and you end up investigating the senator? Swamp, you’re acting really weird. The man’s paying your fees. I don’t follow the logic.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Murder in Buckhead
    tags: curiosity, drama, dramatic, exhilarating, fiction, investigator, mystery, profound-mystery, thriller
    41 likes

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    Veronica Roth
    “Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: knowledge
    140 likes

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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's
    71 likes

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    Sun Tzu
    “Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: planning, preparation
    104 likes

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    Iain Banks
    “Why had he done it? Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel, why couldn't he go back and stop it happening? Ships that could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few years, and count every cell in your body from light-years off, but he wasn't able to go back one miserable day and alter one tiny, stupid, idiotic, shameful decision...”
    ― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games
    tags: cheating, galaxies, jernau-morat-gurgeh, mistakes, regret, shame, stupidity, time-travel
    31 likes



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