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#1

“I felt it as a G-force that building pressure that starts in your chest and spreads outward, reminding you that you have mass and the universe has more.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: cosmic-scale, future-tech, galactic-adventure, sci-fi-readers, science-fiction, space-opera, space-travel

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#2

“I know the ship's sounds the way a person knows their own heartbeat not consciously, until something changes.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: ai-companion, character-driven-sci-fi, fiction, human-machine-bond, quiet-emotion, sci-fi, sci-fi-readers, science, science-fiction, space-opera

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#3

“His grandfather had told him once that the hardest negotiations were the ones where everyone in the room was right about something. You couldn’t win those. You could only find the path that preserved the most of what mattered.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: diplomacy, leadership, moral-choices, peace, political-sci-fi, sci-fi, science, science-fiction, science-sci-fi, thought-provoking-reads

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#4

“Some people just don’t appreciate it when you save their planet.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: sci-fi, sci-fi-humor, science, science-fiction, space, space-opera

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#5

“There is no kindness in showing people a door they cannot open.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: cosmic-mystery, curiosity, forbidden-knowledge, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi-adventure, space, space-opera

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#6

“Attached to each arm, as well as the skirt, they looked like an attempt to grow wings. ”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: art-and-magic, ballet-aesthetic, dark-fairytale-vibes, goodreads-quotes, lyrical-prose, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery

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#7

“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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#8

“I see the fat woman is right. I saw how you looked at him – Billy Dee. He’s your lover. Compared to my harmless affairs that man’s a monster.”
“I AM NOT FAT,” yelled Caroline. Something glittered in her eyes. Anna hissed, and Mary remembered that she carried a concealed knife.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, mystery, noir-mystery, suspense, thriller

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#9

“People are becoming more and more like pets in digital cages, where the only meaning of their lives is to consume and isolate themselves from others like themselves.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: digitalage, modernlifecritique, philosophicalfiction, screentime, socialcommentary, thoughtprovokingreads, wakeupcall

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#10

“If we attempt to explain, in an easily accessible and clear way, how positive and negative actions affect the filling and decreasing of their life ether, we can state that physically it depends on their intentions.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: deepreads, dogood, karmaandintentions, lifeenergy, metaphysicalfiction, spiritualethics, thepythagorean

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#11

“None of the other kids my age has to do all the grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, and bill paying. It’s just not fair that I have to be an adult when I’m still a kid.”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: book-club-pick, childhood, coming-of-age, emotional-truth, family, heartfelt-reads, historical-fiction, resilience

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#12

“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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#13

“the next obvious question that lay lurking like a black storm cloud over my head: If I wasn’t to live with the Jeongs, then where would I go? And with whom?”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: belonging, coming-of-age, emotional-reads, found-family, historical-fiction, hope-and-fear, thought-provoking, uncertainty

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#14

“He didn’t give a damn for the defeatist Kennedy, or indeed for that stuffed-shirt Chamberlain, whom Hitler had comprehensively hoodwinked. Nothing should stand in the way of a murder investigation, however lowly the victim. No doubt Joan’s fate would seem unimportant in the greater scheme of things whenever the Luftwaffe got round to bombing London, but that was nothing to him. It was his job to seek out the truth behind her death, regardless.”
― Mark Ellis, Princes Gate

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#15

“It was his job to seek out the truth behind her death, regardless.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

tags: crime-fiction, crime-thriller, detective-fiction, detectives, historical-mystery, justice, mystery-novels, mystery-suspense, mystery-thriller, police-procedural

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#16

“Don’t think I don’t appreciate the sentiments but if I lose any more of my best officers, chaos will ensue – and chaos, Frank, is worth a hundred divisions to Herr Hitler.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

tags: historical-crime, home-front-fiction, moral-pressure, mystery, mystery-thriller, police-procedural, wartime-thriller, wwii, wwii-history, wwii-reads

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#17

“And, as he knew well, ordinary people continued to commit ordinary crimes, regardless of the latest news from Poland or France.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

tags: crime-fiction, historical-crime-story, home-front, london, police-procedural, social-observation, wartime, ww2, ww2-history

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#18

“This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, antasy, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery

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#19

“At what point does faith become insanity?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, magic, mystery, past, wit

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#20

“In the case of our bodies, we cannot sew on additional organs or devices, but people can easily use the existing ‘standard equipment’ of their body, which is ‘delivered as standard from the manufacturer’ but which has huge built-in capabilities for ‘upgrading.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: everydaymysticism, meditationpractice, mindbodyspirit, philosophicalfiction, spiritualjourney, thepythagorean, upgradeyourlife

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#21

“Therefore, knowledge is guarded more carefully than gold”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: ancient-wisdom, big-ideas, curiosity, knowledge, philosophical-fiction, quote-worthy, truth-seeking

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#22

“Here we have a stopwatch turned on for life, which is why the most valuable thing we have is the time allotted to us by life, which is something that should not be burned in vain.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: deepreads, lifelessons, philosophicalfiction, spiritualjourney, thepythagorean, timeisprecious, valueyourtime

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#23

“Love Has Neither Time Nor Distance”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: book-quotes, connection, heart-and-mind, love-across-time, romantic-philosophy, speculative-fiction, time-travel-fiction

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#24

“You won’t be able to start your training either, and you won’t be able to meet your true teacher and return home, Theo, until you defeat your own inner dragon.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: charactergrowth, defeatyourdragon, herowithin, innerwork, metaphysicalfiction, spiritualjourney, thepythagorean

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#25

“Lust is so sweet when flavoured with guilt.”
― Elijah Wingnut, Vegas then Rome

tags: adult-fantasy, desire, guilt, historical-fantasy, inner-conflict, provocative-reads, spicy-romance, temptation, transgression

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#26

“I understood you had all the wealth you need. Be careful not to lose yourself in search of more.”
― Elijah Wingnut, Vegas then Rome

tags: ambition, book-club-discussion, fantasy, fantasy-romance, historical-fantasy, identity, knowing-when-to-stop, reflective-reads, self-worth, wealth-and-status

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#27

“I love the night diamonds. If I could travel to the sky like the gods, I would make a necklace from them.”
― Elijah Wingnut, Vegas then Rome

tags: beauty-in-small-things, dreams, escapist-reads, fantasy, historical-fantasy, imagination, nighttime-reading, starlight, time-travel-fantasy, wonder

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#28

“A story is not only what it says. A story is what it does. It infects. Then it propagates.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: after-dark-reads, horror-readers, metafiction, power-of-stories, psychological, psychological-horror, psychological-thriller, psychological-unease, thought-provoking-reads, thriller

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#29

“Attention is the rarest currency, and you spent a great deal of yours here. On me.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: attention, late-night-reading, metafiction, power-of-words, psychological, psychological-tension, psychological-thriller, thriller, thriller-readers, unsettling-reads

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#30

“Every story worth a damn is about getting inside someone else’s skin and living there. Not observing. Not empathizing. Living there. The rest is furniture.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: art-of-storytelling, books-about-writers, identity, immersive-reading, literary-readers, literary-thriller, metafiction, psychological, thriller, writers-who-read

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