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#1

“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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#2

“Dear Lord! I can’t wait to tell Mom and Cho I brought my lunch in a saddlebag and shared my sandwich and cookies with a den of rattlesnakes!”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: adventure-vibes, best-friend-energy, coming-of-age, fish-out-of-water, humor, memoir-feel-fiction, rural-life, share-worthy

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#3

“Life can be hard and cruel sometimes,”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

tags: coming-of-age, emotional-fiction, hard-won-hope, heartfelt, inspirational-reads, life-lessons, reflective, resilience

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#4

“I’ve always found it curious how a coffin, if placed upright, resembles a doorway.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: dark-symbolism, existential-dread, gothic-atmosphere, late-night-reading, mortality, psychological-horror, psychological-thriller, the-uncanny, thriller, thriller-readers

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#5

“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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#6

“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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#7

“I looked back down at the cursive. Not because it made sense, but because it felt aimed. Not at me. Past me. Toward whoever would come next.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

tags: after-dark-reads, hidden-meaning, metafiction, power-of-words, psychological-horror, psychological-thriller, psychological-unease, suspense-readers, thriller, unsettling-reads

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#8

“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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#9

“It hardly felt real that she was gone, though the heavy pain Agata had carried for weeks reminded her, sitting like too many sweets in her stomach; that and the black fabric, the black everywhere.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: coming-of-age, emotional-reads, grief, healing-journey, historical-fiction, loss, lyrical-prose

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#10

“Nonna was steady and safe and always took a strong lead.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: comfort-read, coming-of-age, found-family, grandmother-bond, historical-fiction, resilience, women-supporting-women

347 likes

#11

“Those who seek glory in power become less when they abuse it, yes.”
― Elijah Wingnut, Vegas then Rome

tags: ambition, cost-of-glory, dark-fantasy, desire, fantasy, fantasy-book-club, historical-fantasy, human-dignity, moral-responsibility, power-and-corruption

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#12

“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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#13

“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

49 likes

#14

“I’m a policeman, he thought, not a moral judge, nor a Peeping Tom.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

tags: crime-fiction, crime-thriller, detective-voice, dry-humour, historical-crime, mystery-novels, mystery-readers, mystery-suspense, mystery-thriller

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#15

“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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#16

“A young life full of possibilities snuffed out meaninglessly.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

tags: crime-fiction, crime-fiction-thriller, crime-thriller, crimes-against-humanity, murder-mystery, murder-mystery-novel, thought-provoking, thriller, thrillers-mystery

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#17

“Looking for missing persons in London had become a nightmare since the war started.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

tags: crime, crime-fiction, crimes-against-humanity, historical-crime-story, police-procedural, ww2, ww2-history

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#18

“After wriggling over multiple keys, Anna shut the computer as if locking away an explosive device.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: modern-gothic, mystery-thriller, page-turner-moment, suspense-vibes, tech-and-tension, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery

284 likes

#19

“His candle began to flicker rhythmically as if someone blew on it from a distance.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: candlelight-vibes, gothic-atmosphere, moody-fiction, night-reads, paranormal-mystery, ritual-magic, witchy-reads

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#20

“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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#21

“Rain darkened with the approaching night, while the wind howled as if it was in pain. ”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: dark-atmosphere, gothic-tone, moody-mystery, page-turner-energy, storm-chasers, urban-fantasy, weather-as-character

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#22

“Got to keep smiling, as me old Pa used to say, however shitty the mess you’re in.”
― Mark Ellis, A Death In Mayfair

tags: british-fiction, crime, gallows-humour, historical-crime, historical-fiction, humour-lovers, keep-going, resilience, wartime-fiction, when-life-gets-hard

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#23

“It matters because if you tell us a lie, that undermines everything else you tell us.”
― Mark Ellis, A Death In Mayfair

tags: accountability, armchair-detectives, book-club-discussion, british-mystery, historical-crime, mystery, mystery-readers, police-procedural, trust, truth-matters

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#24

“Creativity became a part of daily life; not a job, not a contest, just something we all did, like breathing.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

tags: art-and-society, creativity, future-of-work, hopeful-nonfiction, huma-potential, meaningful-life

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#25

“With honest ingredients, a deeper appreciation of flavor, and less distance between farm and plate, we can relearn what food truly means, for ourselves and for the Earth.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

tags: climate-solutions, conscious-eating, earth-care, food, food-anthropology, food-systems, regenerative-agriculture, sustainable-living

166 likes

#26

“If we are to find the only possible solution, it won’t come from fixing one thing at a time, it will come from seeing the whole - and realizing that we are part of it, not above it, not beside it, but within it, woven through it.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

tags: big-ideas, environmental-conservation, environmental-nonfiction, environmental-protection, future-generations, interconnectedness, long-term-thinking, quote-of-the-day, systems-thinking

108 likes

#27

“This is biodiversity: a delicate web of life that we are slowly and systematically dismantling.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

tags: biodiversity, climate-awareness, ecology, environmental-nonfiction, nature-writing, planetary-boundaries, planetary-destruction, planetary-health

104 likes

#28

“The schools of the future will not only teach how to think but how to be, in a world where information is infinite but wisdom is rare.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

tags: ai-and-humanity, big-ideas, education, future-of-education, future-success, futures-thinking, lifelong-learning, thoughtful-reads, wisdom

115 likes

#29

“The people of Light are always stronger than the people of Evil, for they have already conquered it in themselves. They have conquered the weaknesses that still entrap others.” ”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: innerwork, inspirationalreads, peopleoflight, philosophicalfiction, selfmastery, shadowwork, spiritualgrowth

234 likes

#30

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

tags: loveacrosstime, metaphysicalfiction, philosophicalromance, soulconnection, thepythagorean, timelesslove

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