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    Max Nowaz
    “Sci-Fi, Space-Travel, Space-Opera, Chance-Encounters, Adventure-Reads, Speculative-Fiction, Book-Quotes”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
    tags: adventure-reads, book-quotes, chance-encounters, sci-fi, space-opera, space-travel, speculative-fiction
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    “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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    Sara Pascoe
    “Suddenly, an idea swooshed into his marsupial brain like a small propeller plane buzzing a crowd. ‘Why didn’t I think of that?”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
    tags: animalstories, children-sbook, childrens, dream, funnykidsbooks, hopeful, humorouschildrensbooks, kidlit, loving, middlegrade
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    Rich DiSilvio
    “Standing before her was the eleven-feet tall by fifteen-feet wide masterpiece, encased in a modern steel frame and protected behind glass.”
    ― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
    tags: art-in-fiction, art-lovers, book-quotes, gallery-vibes, immersive-reads, masterpiece-moment, museum-mystery, visual-writing
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    Susan Rowland
    “The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: action, adventure, climatic, dramatic, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, mystery, profound, tense, unpredictable
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    “Jerusalem takes you in and puts you under its exotic, opulent spell in a way few other cities can.”
    ― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht
    tags: adult-fiction, armchair-travel, book-quotes, city-magic, goodreads, sense-of-place, travel-lit, wanderlust
    141 likes

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    Anne Michaud
    “The Clintons’ partnership is infused with patriotic fervor. Early on, they referred to their life together as “the journey.” They intended to inspire the expansion of the country’s social consciousness.”
    ― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives
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    Mary Doria Russell
    “Religion—the wishful thinking of an ape that talks! You know what I think?” he asked rhetorically, trying to distract himself from yet another death. “Random shit happens, and we turn it into stories and call it sacred scripture—”
    ― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God
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    Barack Obama
    “For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.”
    ― President Barack Obama
    tags: inauguration
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    Daniel Quinn
    “Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities.”
    ― Daniel Quinn
    tags: beatitudes
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    David Guterson
    “What did she know about the vast region of emptiness that inhabited him all of the time? What did she know about him anyway? It was one thing for her to have known him as a child; it was another for her to come to terms with the nature of his adult wounds. She didn’t know, finally; he couldn’t explain himself. He did not want to explain to her his coldness or reveal himself in any way.”
    ― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
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    David McCullough
    “We dared to hope we had invented something that would bring lasting peace to the earth. But we were wrong. . . ”
    ― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers
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    Erik Larson
    “No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burlap.”
    ― Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
    tags: hurricane, weather, wind
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