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    “It is time to tell your story without feeling ashamed. This is how you heal.”
    ― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child
    tags: emotional-healing, healing-journey, inner-child-healing, memoir, self-worth, survivor-story, trauma-recovery
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    Isham Cook
    “The poor were born survivors, but their equity was bound to the land—dwelling, farm, animals.”
    ― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison
    tags: class-struggle, fiction, historical, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, qing-dynasty, social-history, survival
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    Behcet Kaya
    “Cindy extended her hand. I got up, faced her, and shook her hand. A strong handshake. This was definitely a no-nonsense young woman.
    “I recognize you from your pictures, Mr. Ludefance.”
    “Pleasure to meet you, Cindy. And you can call me Jack. I’m afraid you have the advantage. You probably did a Google search on me and have all my background information?”
    She didn’t hesitate. “Yes.”
    “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.”
    “I don’t.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge
    tags: drama, excitement, murder-mystery
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    “Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: philosophical-musings, reflection
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    Theasa Tuohy
    “Quite," Detective Vidal pronounced as though he'd learned his English in a British finishing school. "Even Madame Rachel, who sat right beside, could not tell.”
    ― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth
    tags: action, crime-story, detective, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, mystery, thriller
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    Mark Ellis
    “Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the bed of this seedy hotel room in central London. The sight and smell was sickening - even to a hardened detective like him. Felling the bile rising in his throat again, he hurried out into the dimly lit corridor. “Where are you, Sergeant? Is the doctor here yet?”
    ― Mark Ellis, The French Spy
    tags: action, balkan, civil-war, drama, fast-paced, intriguing, page-turner, victims, violence, war
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    Marcia Breece
    “The bouquet of assorted meats, onions, garlic, thyme, bay and parsley wrapped around her like a warm, familiar quilt.”
    ― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle
    tags: cozy-reads-3, culinary-fiction, family-saga, fiction, food-lovers, french-cooking, literary-fiction, sense-of-home
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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “The sky was stark, stale, and gray. The air, cold.”
    ― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
    tags: atmospheric, coming-of-age, historical-fiction, italian-history, literary-setting, venice, winter-mood
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    Lotchie Burton
    “You’re like that black-and-yellow strip of tape the police stretch across a crime scene. Everything about you screams ‘do not cross.’ And like my friends down south say, my momma didn’t raise no fool. I know a dangerous woman when I see one.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge
    tags: action-packed, emotionally-charged, exciting, romance, suspense
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  • #10
    “There was nothing about the morning that suggested it would be anything other than routine. Those were always the days that changed things.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, THE SUPER
    tags: conspiracy-thriller, mystery-suspense, mystery-thriller, quote-of-the-day, suspense, suspense-thriller, thriller, thrillers-mystery
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  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: gandalf, prophecy, unanticipated
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    Michael Shaara
    “There ought to be more than just that metallic end, and then silence, then the worms, and sometimes he believed, but just this moment he did not believe at all...there was nothing beyond the sound of the guns...not even silence, just an end.”
    ― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.”
    ― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
    tags: memory, past
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    E.M. Forster
    “When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.”
    ― E.M. Forster, Maurice
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    Diane Setterfield
    “They are more real than the books on the shelves, books that are sketched with the barest hint of a line here and there, fading in places to a ghostly nothingness. Why recall the picture now, you must be wondering. The reason I remember it so well is that it seems to be an image of the way I have lived my own life. I have closed my study door on the world and shut myself away with people of my imagination.”
    ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
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    “Puff, puff, chug, chug, went the Little Blue Engine. “I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can.”

    […]

    “I thought I could. I thought I could. I thought I could.

    I thought I could.

    I thought I could.

    I thought I could.”
    ― Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
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