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    Susan Rowland
    “Their branches shook as if trying to dislodge beetles crawling up their bony arms.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders
    tags: atmospheric-reads, dark-fairytale-vibes, gothic-mood, london-nature, mystery-series, nature-imagery, urban-fantasy
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    K. Ritz
    “Sunset painted the sky. Royal Wood, clad in spring green, rustled in a breeze. A fine evening for a stroll.
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    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: atmospheric, calm-before-storm, fantasy, immersive-world, lyrical, nature-mood, scenic-read, setting-love
    55 likes

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  • #3
    “Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: editing, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing
    346 likes

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “We cannot choose our rebirth, but we are reborn according to our karma.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick
    tags: buddhistthought, educate, karma, learning, secondchances, spiritualfiction, thoughtprovoking, weekendreads, wise
    60 likes

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    JoDee Neathery
    “It’s Gabe. My God, he’s so young and has the vision of a John Rockefeller. I’m not sure what you call it . . . but some people have strength of mind . . . his is of the soul.”
    ― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush
    tags: action, action-thriller, anger, family-life, favorites, fiction, forgiveness, pain
    60 likes

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    Tricia Newlan
    “You don’t owe me anything. But I need you to know I didn’t show up because I thought you were weak. I came because I know how strong you are—and I hate that you’ve had to be strong alone.”
    ― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance
    tags: comfort-romance, emotional-support, found-safety, healing-journey, resilience, romance-readers, seen-and-held, tender-love, you-are-strong
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  • #7
    “Remember that they often contain “distractors” (answer choices designed to mislead you); stay focused to avoid getting tripped up by these distractors.”
    ― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University
    tags: academic-success, exam-tips, focus, multiple-choice, nonfiction, study-strategy, test-taking
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    J. Rose Black
    “I have words for this patently pedantic policy and what the mildly misogynistic men who tried to run my life could do with it. And if it rhymed with "dove it up their mass," I'd never tell a soul.”
    ― J. Rose Black, Chasing Headlines
    tags: affairs-of-the-heart, american-romance, attraction, happiness, joy, love, risk, romantic-fiction, suspense
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    Patricia Mather Parker
    “Sillyhead, Sam said. Are you kidding! You’ve been raised by pirates. Remember!”
    ― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode
    tags: adventure, book-quotes, fantasy, found-family, friendship, humor, middle-grade, pirates
    57 likes

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    J.L. Marrain
    “How could he possibly say the words?”
    ― J L MARRAIN, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder
    tags: book-quotes, character-moment, coming-of-age, emotional-tension, family, fantasy, readers
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    Sara Pascoe
    “By six in the morning, she was baking with Emma. She was allowed to eat the burnt and the broken, and together they invented new muffins and pastries.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: bookquotes, burntandbroken, cafelife, comfortreads, foundfamily, yafantasy
    55 likes

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    Rachel Carson
    “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
    ― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Wallace Stegner
    “Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
    wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
    ― Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird
    tags: heartbreak, hurt, life-lessons, scars, wisdom, wounds
    557 likes

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    Christopher Moore
    “There's always a bloody ghost.”
    ― Christopher Moore, Fool
    tags: humor
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    Cornelia Funke
    “The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fall over them.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: existence, memory
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    Patricia Mather Parker
    “You bear the mark, young one. Watch and learn and you will know the truth about yourself.”
    ― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode
    tags: book-quotes, destiny, fantasy, identity, kid-lit, magic, middle-grade, mystery, self-discovery
    54 likes

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    Susan Rowland
    “He says it was tourists being careless, where I see a fiendishly clever murder attempt.”
    “Mr. McCarthy, you’d better explain.”
    “Patrick, please. You’ll be tempted to laugh. It was a banana skin.”
    ― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds
    tags: betrayal, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, murder-mystery, mystery, noir-mystery, suspense
    373 likes

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  • #20
    “Music Is the Language of Emotions”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: art-and-soul, creative-life, emotional-truth, human-experience, music-lovers, philosophical-fiction, reading-mood
    83 likes

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    J.L. Marrain
    “The sky was overcast, with alternating sunshine and rain.”
    ― J L MARRAIN, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder
    tags: adventure, atmosphere, book-quotes, fantasy, immersive-reads, moody-vibes, setting
    73 likes

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    Rich DiSilvio
    “In one breath, you fear the government getting involved with unions, welfare, or immigration laws all, in essence, aimed at helping our poor fellow Americanyet, in another breath, you look for tariffs and even subsidies.”
    ― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
    tags: american-history, book-quotes, class-politics, gilded-age, historical-fiction, industrial-america, labor-history, social-commentary
    63 likes

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The April forced ‘Resettlement’ of the villages of Long Phuoc, and Long Tan inflamed the already seething hatred of foreigners by the local Vietnamese people. They had only recently removed the French yoke after almost a century of cruel and repressive French rule. Now here were the Americans and their allies who in the Vietnamese eyes were continuing to do as the French had done before them. Into this sort of environment of hate, the Australian soldiers were sent to complete what the Americans had started.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: educational, entertaining, factual, indochina-war, insightful, political-dictatorship, united, unity, unrest, warring
    191 likes

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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
    465 likes

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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “The moisture in the air sat in the crevices of storefront windows, like the tears that welled in the corners of her dark brown eyes.”
    ― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
    tags: coming-of-age, emotional-reads, grief, historical-fiction, lyrical-prose, strong-heroine, venice
    443 likes

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    Sara Pascoe
    “And he always felt better with an aim and a purpose.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
    tags: animalstories, enjoyable, growingup, humour, kidlit, lifelessons, middlegrade, motivationalreads, purpose
    42 likes

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    Raymond Chandler
    “All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.”
    ― Raymond Chandler
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    Rachel Caine
    “And how are we supposed to do that, exactly? Shane's all grrr now.”
    ― Rachel Caine, Bite Club
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    Art Spiegelman
    “But my feeling is that America shouldn’t be subsidising this terrible thing. My sympathy, and my charitable giving, often goes to Palestinian causes, not because I think the Palestinians are pure but because somehow the text of Maus leads me into having to support them.”
    ― Art Spiegelman
    tags: holocaust
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    Madeline Miller
    “Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, ashes, dead, free, names, patrochilles, patroclus
    336 likes



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