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    Don Hynes
    “Something dark and unseen
    breaks into awareness,
    bursting like a mushroom
    with the full throat of desire.
     ”
    ― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
    tags: choice, happiness, inspiring, kindness, life-and-living, life-lessons, motivating, optimism, positive, positive-attitude
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    “It made me realize that I had to leave my old life behind, because nobody but me cared about it.”
    ― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life
    tags: career-turning-point, coming-of-age, law-school, legal-memoir, life-lessons, personal-growth, reflective-nonfiction
    52 likes

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    Susan Rowland
    “For once he looked at her as if he saw her – an older woman unafraid of blustering men, too assured to play at looking younger.
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    ― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders
    tags: character-insight, feminist-fiction, midlife-heroine, own-your-power, strong-women, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery
    144 likes

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    Chad Boudreaux
    “She remembered what her old priest had said: a half-truth masquerading as a whole truth was nothing but an untruth. But half-truths were horseplay in Miranda, where big lies came quick and easy. And they were about to come a lot easier.”
    ― Chad Boudreaux, Homecoming Queen: A Small-Town Political Thriller
    tags: action, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, mystery, suspense, thriller
    48 likes

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    Candace L. Talmadge
    “There will come a moment when you will look at your child, your firstborn, and realize there isn’t anything you would not do, would not suffer, would not sacrifice, for that child’s well-being.”
    ― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
    tags: emotional-fantasy, family-saga, fantasy, heart-lines, love, parenthood, protectiveness, sacrifice
    39 likes

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    Charles Dowding
    “More leaf over the soil means more fertility returning to the ground.”
    ― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests
    tags: compost, gardening, kitchen-garden, no-dig, regenerative-growing, soil-health, sustainable-gardening
    31 likes

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    Rich DiSilvio
    “The silence, seclusion, and sky-scraping perch atop the highest peak in the valley struck him at once as quite eerie, yet sublimely ethereal.”
    ― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
    tags: art-lovers, art-mystery, atmospheric-reads, book-quotes, evening-reading, gothic-vibes, moody-prose, museum-mystery, mystery-readers, travel-mystery
    62 likes

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    Kathryn Stockett
    “When I started typing her bathroom iniative for the newsletter, typing words like disease and protect yourself and you're welcome! it was like something cracked open inside of me, not unlike a watermelon, cool and soothing sweet. I always thought insanity would be a dark and bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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    Daniel Quinn
    “koan”
    ― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
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    Malcolm X
    “I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.”
    ― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
    tags: a-dream-deferred
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    Olive Ann Burns
    “Two or more year ago she was out workin' in her rose garden one mornin' - did you know, boy, she's got over sixty different kinds out there? - and she said to me, said, 'Mr. Blakeslee, I wouldn't even mind dyin' if'n I could be buried in a bed of roses.”
    ― Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree
    tags: death, love
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