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    Rich DiSilvio
    “Well, it appears my feathery quill has just as much power, influence, and value as any robber baron, for it evidently pricked your boorish skin!”
    ― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age
    tags: gilded-age, historical-fiction, journalism, literary-quotes, period-drama-vibes, social-commentary, speaking-truth, wit-and-edge
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    “Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: editing, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing
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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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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Cynthia said, “How are things going for you with this birth?”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
    tags: drama, enlightening, exploration, fiction-writing, historical-biography, human-history, lovers, novel, period-drama, powerful
    181 likes

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    John C. Waugh
    “tiny spider
i too hang in vastness”
    ― John C. Waugh, busted haiku
    tags: awe, existential, minimalism, nature-mirror, perspective, poetry, poetry-lovers, stillness
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  • #6
    “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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  • #7
    “Seeing all the kids pick out different books brings a smile to her face.”
    ― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words
    tags: book-joy, book-lovers, kids-reading, library-life, picture-book, read-aloud, storytime
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    “Since there are many IE events in Madrid, networking opportunities abound”
    ― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University
    tags: career-development, ie-events, madrid-life, networking, nonfiction, professional-growth, student-success
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    Sara Pascoe
    “But if you flip this around, the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.
    Hold my bag while I victory-lap.”
    ― Sara Pascoe
    tags: gender, humour
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    K. Ritz
    “The price be one copper. Tis a wee price for salvation, Noble One.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: fantasy, fate, irony, moral-cost, quote-worthy, religion, street-wisdom, temptation
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    Max Nowaz
    “It was the height of insanity, but he wanted to protect his true identity from people who might cause him harm until he was sure of things”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
    tags: identity, protect-yourself, science-fiction, secrets, survival-mode, thriller-tension, trus-tno-one
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    J.L. Marrain
    “This was getting worse by the minute.”
    ― J L MARRAIN, THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER
    tags: adventure, book-quotes, fantasy, high-stakes, page-turner, relatable, tension
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    Dorothy Allison
    “It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.”
    ― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
    tags: religion
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    Susanna Clarke
    “I no longer feel quite so alarmed when a nonsensical word in my Journal gives rise to a mental image that I cannot account for. Do not be anxious, I tell Myself. It is the House. It is the House enlarging your understanding.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
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    Christopher Paolini
    “He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.”
    ― Christopher Paolini
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    Anita Diamant
    “You know, Ava, it’s good to be smart, but kindness is more important. Oh dear, another old-lady chestnut to stitch on a sampler. Or maybe one of those cute little throw pillows.”
    ― Anita Diamant, The Boston Girl
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    Boris Pasternak
    “Through its inborn faculty of hearing, poetry seeks the melody of nature amid the noise of the dictionary, then, picking it out like picking out a tune, it gives itself up to improvisation on that theme.”
    ― Boris Pasternak
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    Justin Cronin
    “And then, despite all these concerns, Arnette felt her mind begin to loosen, the images of the day unwinding inside her like a spool of thread, pulling her down into sleep.”
    ― Justin Cronin, The Passage
    tags: sleep
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    Joseph A. Anderson
    “Atom, all life and reality as we know it is created by consciousness… your dream made it probable that we would find life,”
    ― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b
    tags: beautiful-writing, dream-logic, emotional-sci-fi, hope-after-loss, human-condition, inner-worlds, literary-sci-fi, loss-and-healing, lyrical-sci-fi, quote-of-the-day
    49 likes

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    “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
    87 likes

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    George Critchlow
    “Iron Mike was learning how to love.”
    ― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege
    tags: character-change, compassion, faith, healing, human-growth, love-and-learning, memoir, redemption, second-chances, transformative-reads
    57 likes

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    Anastasia Pash
    “She taught me at a young age that one judges a book by its cover, so you better look presentable when arriving in foreign land”
    ― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules
    tags: cultural-awareness, dress-with-intention, first-impressions, mindful-travel, style-confidence, travel-etiquette, travel-inspiration
    36 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
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    Susan Rowland
    “Waiting for the correct time to descend for cocktails, Mary sat on her bed and reviewed her impressions of the house party one by one. Belinda Choudhry M. P. she knew least. As mother of murdered Perdita, she was sure to be a volatile addition.”
    ― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds
    tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, insight, mystery, profound, unpredictable
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    Rich DiSilvio
    “Those who are unread are easily mislead.”
    ― Rich DiSilvio
    tags: life-lessons, philosophy, wisdom
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    Patricia Mather Parker
    “She lay in darkness so thick she could feel its pressure all around her.”
    ― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode
    tags: adventure-reads, atmospheric, dark-fantasy-vibes, fantasy, fear, middle-grade, resilience, survival
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    Max Nowaz
    “Being magnanimous in victory usually worked, but to keep abreast of the situation he had to 
pump the girl for all she knew. Was there a pang of remorse for his actions in his mind? 
Possibly, but what choice did he have? If he wanted to survive, he had no room for weakness.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: action, dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction-writing, humour, mystery, thriller
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “I also fear an attack directly upon us which shall be considerably aided by the French colonists! I therefore support your plan to act first and stage a preemptive strike against the French by launching “Operation Bright Moon”, which is now the code name for the Japanese coup d ětat which will disarm the Vichy French Forces by or during the 9th of March 1945!”  

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war
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    Anthony Doerr
    “----quick-witted, an open book in her lap; inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
    tags: books
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    Thomas More
    “For surely if a man may—as indeed he may—have great comfort in the clearness of his conscience, who hath a false crime put upon him and by false witness proved upon him, and who is falsely punished and put to worldly shame and pain for it; a hundred times more comfort may he have in his heart who, where white is called black and right is called wrong, abideth by the truth and is persecuted for justice.”
    ― Thomas More, The Essential Works of Thomas More: Enriched edition. Essays, Prayers, Poems, Letters & Biographies: Utopia, The History of King Richard III, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
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