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#1

“Before a wall 
of ancient stone,
 I place prayers 
in cracks of silence.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: ancient-stone, contemplative-writing, poetry, prayer, quiet-faith, sacred-spaces, silence, spiritual-reflection

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#2

“After years of toil and grief I turn and face forward in my unexpected seat on the train to Eden”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: eden-imagery, forward-motion, healing-journey, hope-after-grief, personal-transformation, poetry, redemption, resilience

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#3

“Welcome the womb, seed and flower, welcome the timeless, welcome the hour.
Welcome the grieving, all who mourn, welcome the earth, welcome the dawn.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: contemplativewriting, griefandhealing, mourningandhope, poeticprayer, poetry, sacredearth, spiritualreflection, timelessbeauty

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#4

“Rivers don’t sleep,
 dark forests rise,
 sodden roots shatter 
the concrete prison.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: dark-forest, elemental-imagery, lyrical-intensity, nature-power, poetry, resistance, untamed-life, wild-earth

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#5

“He loved the eternal feeling of being on the water, in the zone, day after day as if time had stopped.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: fishing-fiction, fishing-quotes, flow-state, fly-fishing, outdoor-adventure, sports-fiction

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#6

“Now Isla Plata was to fishing as Nantucket was to whaling: a memory of a bygone era.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: coastal-fiction, eco-fiction, environmental, fishing, fishing-fiction, marine-conservation, quote, sports-fiction, thought-provoking-reads

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#7

“She’d never shied away from a challenge before, no matter how loudly her self-doubt had screamed.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: character-growth, courage, fishing-life, fly-fishing, quote-of-the-day, resilience, self-doubt, self-doubt-quotes, sports, sports-fiction

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#8

“Tarpon fishing is a state of mind. It transports us to a special place completely outside of our normal lives.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

tags: escapism, fishing, fishing-fiction, flow-state, fly-fishing, nature-writing, outdoors, sports, sports-fiction

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#9

“We all saw the same printed lettering on the same pages, but there’s always somebody in every group who comes out with the weirdest interpretation of what the writer was trying to say.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: book-club-reads, book-lovers-quotes, interpretation, mystery-series, quote-of-the-day, quotes, reader-humor

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#10

“The power to destroy life was valued far more than the power to create it, as represented by a mother goddess.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: ancient-religion, archaeological-thriller, feminist-history, goddess-history, history, lost-civilizations, quote, quote-of-the-day

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#11

“Tel Aviv and its metro area were a scant 40 miles away from Jerusalem. Only forty miles and three thousand years divided them.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: conspiracythriller, dark-irony, highstakes, historical-thriller, life, manipulation-quotes, political-suspense, quote-of-the-day, thriller-readers

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#12

“The sad part isn’t getting over a loss. It’s far sadder to try to cling to something that’s gone.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

tags: emotional, grief-quotes, historical-thriller, letting-go, letting-go-of-the-past, letting-go-quotes, moving-forward, thriller, thrillers-mystery

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#13

“I felt it as a G-force that building pressure that starts in your chest and spreads outward, reminding you that you have mass and the universe has more.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: cosmic-scale, future-tech, galactic-adventure, sci-fi-readers, science-fiction, space-opera, space-travel

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#14

“Some people just don’t appreciate it when you save their planet.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: sci-fi, sci-fi-humor, science, science-fiction, space, space-opera

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#15

“But the longing was there. That inexplicable human conviction, older than language, that the stars are not simply out there that they are, in some way that resists articulation, home.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: belonging, cosmic-wonder, human-origins, sci-fi, sci-fi-readers, science, science-fiction, space, space-opera, starbound

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#16

“I know the ship's sounds the way a person knows their own heartbeat not consciously, until something changes.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: ai-companion, character-driven-sci-fi, fiction, human-machine-bond, quiet-emotion, sci-fi, sci-fi-readers, science, science-fiction, space-opera

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#17

“A world that was struggling was not the same as a world that was unsalvageable.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

tags: futures, hope, human-nature, human-nature-quotes, resilience, resilience-quotes, science-fiction

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#18

“Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern.”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: action, ancestry, discovery, family, family-history, future, history, literary-fiction, love, suspense

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#19

“Oskar Scultetus said, “Two of my men have been ordered to cut two of the guy wires holding the transmission tower in place, and they are already doing so using oxy-acetylene torches. When they have done it, the tower will fall!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: action, ancestry, drama, family, fiction, historical, learning, powerful, truths, war

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#20

“I have been called many things in my life before now, but no-one has ever called me a solution before!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers & Mick

tags: dry-humour, historical, historical-fiction, human, human-nature, humour, personal-growth, quote-of-the-day, quotes-about-life, witty

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#21

“Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: drama, exciting, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, page-turner, past, politics, present

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#22

“The wind has blown sand over the footprints and the tears.”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers & Mick

tags: action, ancestry, drama, family, fiction, historical, learning, powerful, truths, war

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#23

“Flipping through, the first thing she came across was a restaurant menu featuring animals and rodents in a reference to the starvation of residents during the Siege of Paris of 1870-71 − horse soup, dog cutlets, ragout of cat, roast ostrich, fricassee of rats and mice? The French and their obsession with food presentation.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: climatic, drama, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, fiction, intrigue, mystery, tense, unpredictable

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#24

“The room was cavernous, divided into varied sections by high Moorish arches of a rusty peach, the ceiling of painted patterns set between strips of light blue wood. Bright colors everywhere, high curved windows bordered in violet, smaller windows inset with yellow and green stones and framed in aqua, banquettes upholstered in red and gold.
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― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: action, adventure, crime, drama, fiction, organised-crime, thriller, women-s-adventure

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#25

“In those happy days before Notre Dame Cathedral burned and Paris streets became thick with electric scooters.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: action, adventure, drama, dramatic, fast-paced, investigation, mystery, thriller

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#26

“I would caution you—ambition is a deadly disease.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: ambition, christian-fantasy, dark-fantasy, darkness, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, political-fantasy, quote-of-the-day

500 likes

#27

“But it is not the land that is at peace. It is my heart that is at peace when I am in this land.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: christian-fantasy, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-readers-fantasy, inner-peace, nature-and-faith, quiet-strength, spiritual-journey, wilderness-journey

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#28

“Every man stands before his Maker, and although a man may stand alone, if he stands true, it is enough.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: christian-fantasy, epic-fantasy, faith, fantasy-fiction, integrity, moral-courage, reflective-reads, standing-alone

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#29

“The promise of rain, of hope, of life. Are the clouds but an illusion? Laughing, do they pass over this land only to leave the forest languishing and its thirst unsatisfied?”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: christian-fantasy, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-journey, goodreads-quotes, hopeful-reads, perspective, perspective-quotes, quote-of-the-day

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#30

“When I first got put in jail, I went in as a criminal. When I got released from state prison, I came out a hardened crook. You learn from other inmates how to pull off all sorts of illegal activity.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: action, adventure, danger, drama, fast-paced, mob, mystery, romance

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