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    Rich DiSilvio
    “I guess that’s why I’m attracted to you—I love antiques.” Before she could respond, he leaned over and kissed her on the lips, while “Head Over Heels” by Tears for Fears played on the radio.”
    ― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
    tags: art-mystery, book-quotes, meet-cute-energy, music-in-books, readers-who-love-romance, romantic-moment, slow-burn-romance, vintage-vibes
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    “As well, for a young woman, you carry yourself with a special kind of dignity and grace, a quality of confidence and self-assurance that I find most appealing and is not often found in someone your age.”
    ― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht
    tags: adult-fiction, confidence, dignity-and-grace, empowerment, romance-reads, save-this-quote, women-in-fiction
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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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    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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    K. Ritz
    “I envy him for it, sure he’s dreaming of Cassie.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: character-voice, envy, fantasy, human-moment, loneliness, night-thoughts, quiet-sadness, yearning
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    Susan Rowland
    “Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman’s silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: fiction-novel, murder, past-experiences, personal-relationships, power, psychological, tense, thriller
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    Anne Michaud
    “The Profumo Affair in 1963 profoundly altered British society. It gave lie to the belief that those born into the ruling class were inherently superior and destined to lead.”
    ― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives
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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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    Sara Pascoe
    “His mother always told him he would “be a real somebody, be important someday.” And now that she was gone, he wanted to prove her right all the more.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
    tags: animalinfluenced, animalstories, dreamsandambition, foundfamily, griefandhope, heartfeltreads, kidlit, middlegrade, pageturner
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    “Why do they say that positive emotions prolong life? That is exactly true, because they physically provide the body with vital energy, and on the opposite side of the equation negative emotions burn the energy.”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh
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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “You know what they say?” Nonna paused, “The character of the Venetian people is like the tide.”
    ― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
    tags: community, historical-fiction, human-nature, italian-history, thought-provoking, venice, wisdom
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    Stephen Crane
    “Within him something bade to cry out. He had the impulse to make a rallying speech, to sing a battle hymn, but he could only get his tongue to call into the air: “Why—why—what—what ’s th’ matter?”
    ― Stephen Crane, The Red Badge Of Courage
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    Ki Longfellow
    “A man who gains control over the rain can surely gain control over sin, which is merely a word for error.”
    ― Ki Longfellow, The Secret Magdalene
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    Janet Fitch
    “He had loved her, but he hated himself more.”
    ― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black
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    Mark Helprin
    “We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spinning spirits that have risen like fireworks, tethered to the souls of those men and women who, by reflection, mortification, and devotion, effortlessly outdazzle kings.”
    ― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
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    Jared Diamond
    “By selecting and growing those few species of plants and animals that we can eat, so that they constitute 90 percent rather than 0.1 percent of the biomass on an acre of land, we obtain far more edible calories per acre. As a result, one acre can feed many more herders and farmers—typically, 10 to 100 times more—than hunter-gatherers. That strength of brute numbers was the first of many military advantages that food-producing tribes gained over hunter-gatherer tribes.”
    ― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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    Rick Warren
    “anyone in recovery will tell you, setbacks are part of the process in long-term change. Rather than beat myself up, I simply asked God and my friends to help me get back on track.”
    ― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life
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