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#1

“I felt calm well, maybe not calm but safe. For the first time during a Montana thunderstorm, I did feel safe.”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: comfort-reads, coming-of-age, courage, emotional-fiction, healing, new-beginnings, rural-life, safety

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#2

“I found it interesting when, after the program, both Mrs. Rath and Mrs. Walker mentioned how nice it was to see Ira attending school and community events again.”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: community, found-family, grandparent-bond, growth, healing, heartwarming, quiet-transformation, small-town-life

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#3

“Life can be hard and cruel sometimes,”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: coming-of-age, emotional-fiction, hard-won-hope, heartfelt, inspirational-reads, life-lessons, reflective, resilience

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#4

“If you ever get lost, you can get your bearings and find your way home. Just remember to find Buffalo Butte and head toward that.”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: coming-of-age, grandparent-bond, guidance, home, hope, inspirational-fiction, life-lessons, small-town-story

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#5

“I won’t lie, it scares the dickens out of me to be outside when the lightning starts flashing its light-up-the-sky daggers,”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: atmospheric, character-voice, coming-of-age, courage, fear-and-bravery, rural-life, vivid-writing, weather-mood

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#6

“From up here, the world doesn’t seem so small and confining.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: christian-fantasy, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-journey, goodreads-quotes, hopeful-reads, perspective, perspective-quotes, quote-of-the-day

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#7

“Every man stands before his Maker, and although a man may stand alone, if he stands true, it is enough.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: christian-fantasy, epic-fantasy, faith, fantasy-fiction, integrity, moral-courage, reflective-reads, standing-alone

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#8

“Kander, the laws Baruch has laid out are for our good. If we break them in one way or another, we or others suffer. Because he loves us, he does not want to see us suffer or cause others to suffer.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: christian-fantasy, consequences, faith, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, quote-of-the-day, redemption

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#9

“Because your own soul is in bondage, do you resent the freedom of another?”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: christian-fantasy, faith-journey, fantasy-journey, freedom-and-bondage, inner-conflict, journey-of-life, moral-choice, redemption, thoughtprovoking

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#10

“I have often reflected that people who say “times have changed” usually live as though they had not.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: book-club-reads, changing-times, dry-wit, fiction, fiction-writing, human-nature, literary-fiction

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#11

“The belief that time heals most traumas is, I fear, not to be relied upon.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: literary-fiction, memory, psychological-fiction, quiet-reflection, regret, thought-provoking, trauma-and-healing

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#12

“I wish I had a canvas and could paint the serene colours of eternity from the harsh palette that is planet Earth.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: fiction, human-nature, literary-fiction, mortality, poetic, poetic-fiction, romantic

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#13

“Being in love is so often depicted as a blissful condition in the comforting pages of fiction. It was not so for me.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: adult-fiction, emotional-conflict, literary-fiction, love, romantic, romantic-tragedy

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#14

“After wriggling over multiple keys, Anna shut the computer as if locking away an explosive device.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: modern-gothic, mystery-thriller, page-turner-moment, suspense-vibes, tech-and-tension, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery

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#15

“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

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#16

“Doesn’t matter how you feel,” said Janet. “It’s not about whether it’s fair. You’ll find the killer because you’re the only one on Holywell island who can.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: climatic, drama, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, fiction, intrigue, mystery, tense, unpredictable

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#17

“Mary continued. “Irina flying, Mr. Dee, takes us to meeting you over Swan Lake at Greenwich. You were to act the sorcerer, the man magicking girls into swans. You are a sorcerer, you say. Did you turn Irina Prince into a swan? Did you make her believe she could fly?”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: action, danger, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, insight, suspense, thriller, unpredictable

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#18

“Sometimes, I think that we each inhabit alternative bubbles of reality.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: character-quotes, human-nature, literary-thriller, psychological-insight, thriller

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#19

“Some people are thrilled to have full control of their own lives. Others aren’t comfortable without an authority figure telling them what to do.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: conspiracy-thriller, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, freedom, freedom-of-choice, independent-thinking, mystery, personal-freedom, thriller-novels, thrillers-mystery

75 likes

#20

“A feeling of kinship is forged through years of shared experiences, not by biological accident.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: archaeological-thriller, belonging-quote, character-driven, found-family, human-connection, reflective-reads, thriller, thrillers-mystery

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#21

“The power to destroy life was valued far more than the power to create it, as represented by a mother goddess.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: ancient-religion, archaeological-thriller, feminist-history, goddess-history, history, lost-civilizations, quote, quote-of-the-day

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#22

“Flipping through, the first thing she came across was a restaurant menu featuring animals and rodents in a reference to the starvation of residents during the Siege of Paris of 1870-71 − horse soup, dog cutlets, ragout of cat, roast ostrich, fricassee of rats and mice? The French and their obsession with food presentation.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: climatic, drama, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, fiction, intrigue, mystery, tense, unpredictable

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#23

“The woman patted Sarah's hand. "Of course, my dove," her thick, almost black lipstick bunched into a dark oval, punctuating her face. Sarah snatched her hand back, startled. The volunteer label didn't quite fit with the black lipstick.
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― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: action, adventure, danger, drama, fiction-novel, insight, suspense, thriller, unpredictable

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#24

“She skirted the offensive dressing table with its glaring bright bulbs where Georgie had bled to death and moved to a dark corner of the basement dressing room.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: action, action-thriller, discovery, diversity, fiction, grief, intrigue, manipulation, strength, suffering

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#25

“Mary moved down to join the gathered actors, but little was said beyond questioning whispers. This was, after all, a morgue.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: drama, emotional, fantasy, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, supernatural-thriller, thriller

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#26

“He loved the eternal feeling of being on the water, in the zone, day after day as if time had stopped.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: fishing-fiction, fishing-quotes, flow-state, fly-fishing, outdoor-adventure, sports-fiction

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#27

“Striped bass are the gateway drug to saltwater fly fishing. Catch one on fly, and twenty years later, you’re throwin’ pink synthetic chickens at marlin.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: angler-humor, fishing, fishing-fiction, fly-fishing, humor, outdoor-adventure, quote-of-the-day, saltwater-fishing, sports-fiction, weekend-reads

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#28

“You create a winning team by combining a guide who can find the fish that don’t want to be found with an angler who can catch the fish that don’t want to be caught.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: angler, competitive, fish, fishing, fly-fishing, sports, sports-fiction, teamwork

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#29

“What we have learned, my dear, is that loving you and your siblings is the easiest thing in the universe and perhaps the most complex and meaningful.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, The Hunter and the Star Queen

tags: adventure, family, family-loyalty, family-relationships, fantasy-adventure, love, love-quotes, science-fantasy, sibling-love

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#30

“You will do what you can do. And you know, as you always have, that you only discover what more you can do once the moment demands it.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, The Hunter and the Star Queen

tags: courage, fantasy, growth, growth-mindset, inner-strength, personal-growth, resilience, science, science-fantasy

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