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    Max Nowaz
    “Some people say
    Rhyming is but a sin.
    Little sins are fun
    So try, before you bin.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Timbi's Dream
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    George Critchlow
    “This statement of the jurors’ sense of justice may be the most succinct and forthright declaration of white privilege and racial paternalism I have ever heard.”
    ― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege
    tags: book-discussion, cultural-critique, justice-reform, legal-system, memoir, nonfiction, race-in-america, social-justice, thought-provoking, white-privilege
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    Susan Rowland
    “But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, murder, psychological, suspense, thriller
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    Joseph A. Anderson
    “He falls further into darkness. The stinging pain of daily torture and the numbing cold hardly bother him now, and he relishes the thought that soon he might disappear entirely. Then Lylitte is there in his thoughts again, and the splitting pain brings him back into this life, and again, only one thing eases the torment: winding further out of existence.”
    ― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b
    tags: broken-heroes, character-driven, dark-sci-fi, descent-into-darkness, existential-fiction, griefin-fiction, mind-and-memory, psychological-sci-fi, survival-story, trauma-in-fiction
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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “Her quiet sobs were absorbed into the aria of their voices, their protection and love enveloping her pain and carrying her song.”
    ― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
    tags: community, found-family, grief, historical-fiction, hopeful-moments, lyrical-prose, music, venice
    38 likes

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  • #6
    “The World Is Ruled by Numbers”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: ancient-greece, big-ideas, mathematics, mind-and-meaning, pattern-seeking, philosophy, speculative-fiction
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  • #7
    “I won’t lie, it scares the dickens out of me to be outside when the lightning starts flashing its light-up-the-sky daggers,”
    ― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community
    tags: atmospheric, character-voice, coming-of-age, courage, fear-and-bravery, rural-life, vivid-writing, weather-mood
    46 likes

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    J.L. Marrain
    “Welcome back to Faeryland, your Majesty," said the elder man.”
    ― J.L. Marrain, THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER
    tags: adventure-reads, faeries, faeryland, fantasy, magical-realms, portal-fantasy, royalty-vibes, ya
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    Patricia Mather Parker
    “My name is Fel. I am the child that the Mists spoke of.”
    ― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode
    tags: adventure, book-quotes, courage, destiny, fantasy, found-family, kid-lit, magic, middle-grade
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    K. Ritz
    “Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.
”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: atmosphere, brooding-narrator, dark-fantasy, dark-humor, epic-fantasy, gothic-vibes, moody-reads, night-reads, quote-of-the-day
    54 likes

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  • #11
    “by”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: friedrich-nietzsche
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    Shannon Hale
    “Finn leaped from his horse to greet Enna, and she entwined herself into him, their arms around each other, their faces close. Thoug they did not kiss, Rin thought that the way they looked at each other was even more intimate.
    'Let's get married,' Enna was saying with yearning in her voice. 'Please, let's get married right now.'
    Finn put his face into her neck and whispered something that made her hum.”
    ― Shannon Hale, Forest Born
    tags: enna, finn, love
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    Robert Penn Warren
    “Hell, a man can lie there and want something so bad and be so full of wanting it he just plain forgets what it is he wants. Just like when you are a boy and the sap first rises and you think you will go crazy some night wanting something and you want it so bad and get so near sick wanting it you near forget what it is.”
    ― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
    tags: wanting
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    Edmond Rostand
    “my white plume"
    - Cyrano de Bergerac”
    ― Edmund Rostand
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    Mary Stewart
    “I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.”
    ― Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting
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    Maurice Sendak
    “If there's anything I'm proud of in my work--it's not that I draw better; there's so many better graphic artists than me--or that I write better, no. It's--and I'm not saying I know the truth, because what the hell is that? But what I got from Ruth and Dave, a kind of fierce honesty, to not let the kid down, to not let the kid get punished, to not suffer the child to be dealt with in a boring, simpering, crushing-of-the-spirit kind of way.”
    ― Maurice Sendak
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