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    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
    “Real leadership is treating your least favorite employee the same as your favorite”
    ― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
    tags: bias, business, chemistry, motivations, organisations, relationship, retention, science, sentiment, unwritten-rules
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    Lotchie Burton
    “The image of the sensual, sleep-laden Naomi made him smile. And wish he’d been lying on the pillow next to her when she’d opened her eyes. Lucky pillow.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire
    tags: action, adventure, discovery, drama, emotions, fiction, intrigue, mystery, romance
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    “He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: alone, melancholy, reflection
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    Marcia Breece
    “A beautiful violin has no value unless someone who loves music plays it.”
    ― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle
    tags: book-club-reads, family-saga, inheritance, legacy, literary-fiction, music-in-fiction, violin
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    Maria Jane
    “I still love the person he is—loyal and kind—but we’re on different paths, and that is okay.”
    ― Maria Jane, Perfect
    tags: breakup-quotes, contemporary-romance, different-paths, emotional-clarity, letting-go-of-the-past, letting-go-quotes, romance, womens-fiction
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    JoDee Neathery
    “Starla and Conner ambled to his car, knowing each deliberate footstep meant the road to parting was nearer. He leaned his back against the door pulling her within inches of his face, their personal space evaporating like dew steeped in the warmth of the morning sun. She tilted her head sideways, searching his eyes with hers. Straightening the collar of his shirt she said, “If I’m too bold forgive me, but you fill a void in my life . . . you’re like finding that stray earring I’ve been trying to find for ages and now that I have, it scares me.”
    ― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush
    tags: blame, challenges, guilt, love, mystery, novel, redemption, romance, suspense, tradgedy
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    Behcet Kaya
    “I called and called until someone took pity and told me what was going on. She developed COVID-19 pneumonia and they put her on a ventilator.”
    My sister’s crying was bordering on hysteria. “Jack, she died this morning! Deloris is gone! I still can’t believe it!”
    I swerved, slammed on the brakes, and pulled the Ram over to the side of the highway.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel
    tags: drama, fiction, fiction-writing, murder-mystery, mystery, noir, noir-mystery, organised-crime, secrets
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    Joseph A. Anderson
    “There were times, while Atom slept and she was awake soothing her crying daughter, that a question itched from somewhere deep within. This "unsolved mystery" that Atom spoke of: It was all in the past, her mind insisted, as that's what her husband had promised. But she couldn't let it go, so eventually she had to ask. "Why did these ghost people emerge and then just vanish in your world?”
    ― Joseph A. Anderson, Return to Planet Earth
    tags: alien-dna, descent-into-darkness, existential-fiction, lokas, multiverse, psychological-sci-fi, quantum-theory, science-gone-wrong
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    Isham Cook
    “But the outcome was inevitable: she assumed you would not take no for an answer; she could already see your charming smile morph into the grimace of a rabid dog. To”
    ― Isham Cook, Lust and Philosophy
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    Lois Lowry
    “...an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “إن الطريقة التي يتقبل بها الإنسان قدره و يتقبل بها كل ما يحمله من معاناة , و الطريقة التي يواجه بها محنه , كل هذا يهيئ ء له فرصة عظيمة - حتى في أحلك الظروف - لكي يضيف إلى حياته معنى أعمق ..”
    ― فيكتور إيميل فرانكل, Man's Search for Meaning
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    “Ah, bella damigella, dignità, virtù e valore non sono riposti solo nell'abbigliamento!" esclamò Balin. "La virilità e l'onore sono celati nella persona, e vi sono molti insigni cavalieri ignoti a tutti, a riprova che il pregio e l'ardimento non hanno alcun rapporto con le vesti che indossano.”
    ― Thomas Malory, Storia di re Artù e dei suoi cavalieri
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    Tracy Kidder
    “We can spend sixty-eight thousand dollars per TB patient in New York City, but if you start giving watches or radios here [Haiti], suddenly the international health community jumps on you for creating 'nonsustainable' projects. If a patient says, I really need a Bible or nail clippers, well, for God's sake!”
    ― Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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    T.S. Eliot
    “No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of aesthetic, not merely historical, criticism.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood
    tags: art-appreciation, intertextuality
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    Garth Stein
    “It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation
    and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.”
    ― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
    tags: communication, difficult, interpretation, moving-parts, presentation
    30 likes



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