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    Susan Rowland
    “But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, murder, psychological, suspense, thriller
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    Mark C. Zauderer
    “It made me realize that I had to leave my old life behind, because nobody but me cared about it.”
    ― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life
    tags: career-turning-point, coming-of-age, law-school, legal-memoir, life-lessons, personal-growth, reflective-nonfiction
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    Rich DiSilvio
    “Yielding to convention yields nothing new.”
    ― Rich DiSilvio
    tags: creativity, genius, innovation, inspirational-quotes, invention, progress
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    Don Hynes
    “Upon the altar of the heart,
cleansed of conflict,
the world rests radiant
in naked splendor.”
    ― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation
    tags: contemplative-verse, heart-wisdom, innerpeace, poetry, radiant-world, sacred-beauty, spiritual-clarity, stillness
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    Candace L. Talmadge
    “The trial awaiting Helen was known among the Toltecs as a Kazil,
    a special court convened to consider only those state crimes serious
    enough to be punished by death. It consisted of a joint session of
    the Kinshazen and the highest-ranking priests of the Temple of Kronos,
    who were referred to as the Host of the Faithful.
    A Kazil was always conducted at Kindred House, the building where
    the members of the Kinshazen met. Its outer layer consisted of massive
    blocks of polished pink granite, which had a decidedly dark cast to it.
    Kindred House was closest to Lake Shambhala of all the structures in
    the Nighthall government complex.
    Those summoned before a Kazil and convicted of the charges were invariably put to death within three days of the proceeding. And in only a few, very rare, instances had anyone been found innocent on trial before a Kazil.”
    ― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
    tags: ancient-evil, anger, dark-fantasy, empowerment, flawed-characters, moral-dilemmas, political-courts, prophecy-fulfillment, societal-prejudice, supernatural-powers
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    Charles Dowding
    “It’s incredible to reflect on how much knowledge and growth power is contained in seeds.”
    ― Charles Dowding
    tags: gardening, growth, harvest, harvesting, herb-gardening, knowledge, organic, vegetable, vegetable-garden
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    Chad Boudreaux
    “Home was the one place he wanted to forget, the place from which he’d run away but never could escape. And, yes, home was the place he’d been instructed to leave—the place where the trouble began and the trouble would end.”
    ― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
    tags: drama, fiction, investigate, mystery, page-turner, plot-driven, puppeteering, survival, thriller, treachery
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    “Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    Toni Morrison
    “I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
    ― Toni Morrison
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    Dean Koontz
    “As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope”
    ― Dean Koontz
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    Leon Uris
    “So before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world. And all of us against the infidel.”
    ― Leon Uris, The Haj
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    “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
    ― Anonymous, Holy Bible: The New King James Version
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    Mark Ellis
    “If my name is on the bomb, so be it. Kismet is the word, isn’t it?”
    ― Mark Ellis, In the Shadows of the Blitz: A deeply captivating classic crime thriller
    tags: blitz-fiction, fate, goodreads-quotes, quotes, wartime-fiction, wartime-london, wwii, wwii-history
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    Fons Burger
    “Creativity became a part of daily life; not a job, not a contest, just something we all did, like breathing.”
    ― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
    tags: art-and-society, creativity, future-of-work, hopeful-nonfiction, huma-potential, meaningful-life
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    Joseph A. Anderson
    “The sun burns, clawing its way higher and higher in the sky, scorching Lylitte's neck and shoulders. It's more than just the heat that overwhelms. Her belly feels as if it has doubled in size, and all her parts are swollen; her back is exhausted, and her joints ache. She watches from under heavy lids as an indifferent land of sparse grass, dirt, and sand give off waves of heat that look as though it will cook her and her children alive. Earth is horrendous and uncomfortable and ugly, she reflects. How will we possibly survive?”
    ― Joseph A. Anderson, Return to Planet Earth
    tags: action-adventure-thriller, dystopian-fictionian, hindu-looks, many-worlds-theory, multiversese, next-century-sci, science-fiction-fantasy, survival-instinct
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    Robert Reid
    “You have been anointed by God and He is pleased,” he said. “Seek His guidance when you are troubled or unsure. I do not have a crystal ball to tell the future, but with luck and your wisdom you can enjoy a golden age.”
    ― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire
    tags: change, drama, faith, fight, future, god, guidance, mystery, power, wisdom
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    John Edgell
    “I would caution you—ambition is a deadly disease.”
    ― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled
    tags: ambition, christian-fantasy, dark-fantasy, darkness, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, political-fantasy, quote-of-the-day
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    “That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: misery-loves-company, reflection
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “May the Gods give us girls the victory despite our men!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1
    tags: ancient-world, battle-humor, fierce-heroines, germanic-tribes, goodreads-quotes, historical-fiction, social-quote, warrior-women
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    E.L. James
    “You love me,” I whisper.
    His eyes widen further and his mouth opens. He takes a huge breath as if winded. He looks tortured—vulnerable.
    “Yes,” he whispers. “I do.”
    ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker
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    Pat Conroy
    “Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.”
    ― Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir
    tags: creativity, prayer
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead. ”
    ― Jodi Picoult
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    Michael Cunningham
    “You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
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    Thomas Hardy
    “My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: love, passion
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