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    Gary Clemenceau
    “Something was very wrong, somewhere, and if I didn’t get away soon, I feared it would be too late: I’d have no choice but to join them.”
    ― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity
    tags: foreboding, pageturner, stakes, surrealnoir, tension, thrilleradjacent
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “His remains consigned to the elements and wolves, would scattered across the March.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: destruction, fast-paced, gripping, humans, irreversible-damage, literary-fiction, mission, struggles, threat, turmoil
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  • #3
    “A girl. Arranged, not dropped.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, Killer
    tags: action, chillinglines, crimefiction, dead, minimalistprose, murdermystery, mysteryvibes, thrillerreads, thrilling
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    Todor Bombov
    “The dream of all peoples—a world without weapons, a world without wars—despite any initiatives, no matter whether they are strategic or not, is only a utopia within the contemporary content of the State. Nowadays, the State is the biggest, the most powerful criminal organization of continuous robbery of social labor. The State is a mafia today, in which the basic principle is the “law” omertá—“who’s not mum, is dead!” Now the State is the final phase of the organized criminality. It is “a conspiracy of the rich” (Thomas More), where because of the judicial astrology, “in every situation, powerful rogues know how to save themselves at the expense of the feeble” (Jean-Jacque Rousseau). Until now, the class society represents a power of one family that divided for itself the state as private property!”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: abolition, analysis, class-inequality, dictatorship, division, economic-laws, humanity, myth, political-system, state-property
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  • #5
    “Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: life, philosophical, philosophical-musings
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    H. Meadow Hopewell
    “The molecular structure of my body has been replaced with nanostructures. They assemble DNA to do extraordinary things. The nano-DNA regenerates cellular structures at the atomic level as my body passes through things.
    My head hurts trying to process everything. You better not come through any of my walls!
    Not a chance. I’d be too afraid you might kill me.”
    ― H. Meadow Hopewell, Rage Against the Machine
    tags: curiosity, drama, exhilarating, fiction, fiction-novel, investigator, mystery, sleuth, thriller
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    Theasa Tuohy
    “The film image of a dead child dressed in blood-red floating, Ophelia-like, in "Don’t Look Now" swam before her eyes. It must be some kind of diabolical threat!”
    ― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth
    tags: betrayal, danger, deceit, drama, penalty, redemption, sin, sinners, suspense, understanding
    49 likes

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “I said to Hun Sen, “Thank you, Hun! You have also told me that there was a kidnapping incident which almost bankrupted your family! Can you please elaborate upon that?”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: army, band-of-brothers, family, front-line, guns, love, loyalty, military-budget, pilots
    188 likes

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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly?”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
    tags: maggots, old, wounds
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    Eric Schlosser
    “The first duty of the command and control system is to survive,” Baran argued, proposing a distributed network with hundreds or thousands of separate nodes connected through multiple paths. Messages would be broken into smaller “blocks,” sent along the first available path, and reassembled at their final destination. If nodes were out of service or destroyed, the network would automatically adapt and send the data along a route that was still intact. Baran’s work later provided the conceptual basis for the top secret communications networks at the Pentagon, as well as their civilian offshoot, the Internet.”
    ― Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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    Peter S. Beagle
    “You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention. [...] Never run. [...] Walk slowly, and pretend to be thinking of something else. Sing a song, say a poem, do your tricks, but walk slowly and she may not follow.”
    ― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
    tags: advice, fantasy, immortals
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    Olive Ann Burns
    “boy,”
    ― Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree
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    Leif Enger
    “The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all.

    Virgil Wander”
    ― Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
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    Lynne Truss
    “Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?”
    ― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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    Max Nowaz
    “Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
    ― 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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    Rich DiSilvio
    “The exotic beauty and nostalgic charm of the old brick and etched-stone museum appeared to be an apparition of grander days.”
    ― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
    tags: art-lovers, art-mystery, atmospheric-setting, book-quotes, cozy-aesthetic, museum-vibes, old-world-charm, travel-reads, weekend-reads
    45 likes

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    Sara Pascoe
    “She saw a jack-o-lantern, smiling and hollowed out, with no candle in it, when a well-dressed businesswoman came in for a latte and muffin.
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    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: bookquotes, grief, magicrealismvibes, readerslife, visualmetaphor, yafantasy
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Meanwhile, the British had announced that they would leave all British bases east of Suez. That cause great concern to the Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Menzies, who immediately went into discussion about this with cabinet ministers.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: documented, educational, entertaining, factual, history-resource, leaders, political-dictatorship, research, strategy, veterans
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    John C. Waugh
    “plastic flowers beside the highway
middle of somewhere”
    ― John C. Waugh, busted haiku
    tags: americana, found-poetry, imagery, melancholy-beauty, modern-poetry, poetry, roadside, small-town-vibes
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    JoDee Neathery
    “That’s a medley of promise, fairy tales, and magic bullets all welded together in a chorus of a cloud nine song.”
    ― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush
    tags: blame, challenges, fiction, guilt, insight, intrigue, novel, suspense, thriller, tradgedy
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    Patricia Mather Parker
    “Time, as Fel and Hidalgo knew, acted strangely inside the Mists. Each second was the same as the one before, each hour identical to all of the others.
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    ― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode
    tags: adventure, atmosphere, book-quotes, fantasy, magic, middle-grade, portal-fantasy, wonder
    55 likes

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    K. Ritz
    “When will I learn to stop toying with other people’s lives?”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: character-driven, consequences, dark-fantasy, moral-ambiguity, redemption-thread, regret, self-awareness, thought-provoking
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  • #23
    “God has no other hands but ours”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: compassion, do-good, humanity, kindness, philosophical-fiction, service, spiritual-wisdom
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    Lin Wilder
    “Confidence returned as I joined Father in the recitation of a verse that enveloped my soul with faith, trust, and deligh”
    ― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World
    tags: biblical-fiction, faith, historical-fiction, inspirational-reads, prayer-life, reflective-reads, spiritual-journey, trust
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    Tricia Newlan
    “I’ve loved you for as long as I can remember. You are the fire in my blood, the reason I fight. You are my best friend, my fiercest defender, the only woman who has ever truly seen me.”
    ― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance
    tags: best-friends-to-lovers, book-couples, devotion, emotional-reads, epic-romance, protective-hero, romance-quotes, soul-deep-love, touch-her-and-die-vibes
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    Susan Rowland
    “Puzzlement radiated from them, thought Mary, as if not recognizing that the beings staring at back at them were human.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders
    tags: book-club-pick, human-nature, mirror-moments, social-commentary, thought-provoking, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery
    107 likes

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    Emma Donoghue
    “It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
    ― Emma Donoghue
    tags: inspirational
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    Rebecca Skloot
    “But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can’t afford to see no doctors? Don’t make no sense. People got rich off my mother without us even knowin about them takin her cells, now we don’t get a dime.”
    ― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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    Hilary Mantel
    “When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of style. I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there's nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety
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    George Eliot
    “The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.”
    ― George Eliot
    69 likes



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