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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “Venice would not be who she is without her music lingering around every narrow calle and corner.”
    ― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
    tags: beautiful-writing, cultural-fiction, historical-fiction, italian-history, music, setting-as-character, venice
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    “by”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
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    Mark Ellis
    “London. “Look Olivier. Quite a sight isn’t it?” Commandant Auguste Angers stood tall in his stirrups as he pointed out the far distant dome of St. Paul’s. The bronzed roof of the cathedral was glistening in the sun during a brief break in the clouds. The commandant and his colleague and deputy, Captain Olivier Rougemont, had enjoyed a morning’s exhilarating ride in Richmond Park. The commandant was riding his favourite grey, Chloe, and Rougemont was on his boss’s second string, a chestnut Annette.”
    ― Mark Ellis, The French Spy
    tags: bosnia, deceptions, ethnic-groups, fiction, fiction-drama, fragile, insecurity, journalist, violence, war
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    S.E. Stitcher
    “Time is a luxury we don’t have. Each passing second raises the probability that someone else just took their last breath.”
    ― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher
    tags: crime, crime-thriller, fbi-profiler, high-stakes, procedural-thriller, race-against-time, serial-killer, serial-killer-hunt, thriller, thriller-readers
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    Robert Reid
    “The old man smiled. “If they could talk, these walls would tell you of battles lost and won, of fear and terror, of red fire and white light, of peace and prosperity. Aldene has a history going back centuries.”
    ― Robert Reid, The Emperor
    tags: adventure, book-1, drama, fantasy, fiction, historical, history, mystery, trilogy
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    Fons Burger
    “We can’t fix one thing without addressing the rest. A holistic vision of the far future - that is the only possible solution.”
    ― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
    tags: climate-solutions, environmentalism, future, future-generations, nonfiction, quote-of-the-day, sustainability, systems-thinking
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    “During the Depression of the 1930s everyone suffered, even the rich. It was hard times for all and people helped each other if they could. Americans coming through that together meant something. Now they were being asked to struggle again. But because so many servicemen were killed at Pearl Harbor, Americans had a cause that they all shared – fight the Fascists and keep the threat and the war from coming home. Yet, now the grim reality, the depths of the sacrifices, and the grief of their losses was devastating.”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: america, american-history, discovery, historical-fiction, historical-investigations, historical-mysteries, history-novel, war, war-time-history
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    Italo Calvino
    “Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond...”
    ― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
    tags: art, listening, work
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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    Anne Brontë
    “I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it”
    ― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    tags: evil, falling-in-love, pleasure, society
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    Betty Smith
    “Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.”
    ― Betty Smith
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    Bernhard Schlink
    “I was not disturbed by the fact that the memories made me nostalgic, because I could never bring back the events, or that they made me sad, because they reflected only the positive side of experiences that had their negative side as well. Such is always the case with happy memories. What disturbed me was that they made me more than nostalgic and sad: they made me tired. Deeply, dumbly, blackly tired. (141)”
    ― Bernhard Schlink, Homecoming
    tags: despair, life, memories, recollections, sorrows
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