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#1

“The pup had peed on a Palm Springs golf course, ordered off the menu at Lazy Dog Café and sailed to Catalina Island dressed in a fuchsia bikini. Spoiled in style.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

tags: manipulation, murder, mystery

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#2

“The good looking ones always gave you more trouble than they’re worth.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

tags: murder, mystery, suspense

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#3

“Determined, Natalie stood up, took a firm stance, saw the face she’d pieced together in her mind of bad boy Tobias Trent Rutherford. She fired five consecutive rounds; blew his face away five times.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: adventure, excitement, exciting, fast-paced, fear, full-on, gripping, intrigue, sex, thrilling

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#4

“The film image of a dead child dressed in blood-red floating, Ophelia-like, in "Don’t Look Now" swam before her eyes. It must be some kind of diabolical threat!”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: betrayal, danger, deceit, drama, penalty, redemption, sin, sinners, suspense, understanding

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#5

“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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#6

“Well, now, Mistress No-English," Sarah spat out, "I don't suppose you've seen a new pair of silver shoes." She looked down at the svelte French woman's feet. "Just about your size, I'd judge.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: action, crime-novel, fiction, murder-thriller, organised-crime, political-thriller, sleuth, suspense-thriller, vigilante-justice, women-s-adventure

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#7

“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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#8

“Did you splice my—DNA?”
Hannah puts her hand on the side of his face and looks him square in the eyes. “Your girlfriend was kind enough to let me pull some marrow from her rib, Romeo.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: biohacking, dna, genetics, lab-life, mad-science, medical-thriller, regenerative-medicine, sci-fi-medicine, stem-cells

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#9

“We!” he emphasizes, pointing at his crew, “get to be the first link in a new chapter in our history. But I want you all to really consider what is going on here…” He takes the tone of a circus ringmaster. “This is bigger than successfully colonizing Mars and Ganymede. It’s bigger than Columbus or Magellan. It’s even bigger than the first homo sapiens leaving Africa.” He raises his voice even more, waving his arms. “Hell, this is bigger than fish crawling out of the fucking water and growing legs! Think about it!” Everyone is quiet, avoiding eye contact with Calvin. Everyone except Captain Taylor looks at him ambiguously.
“Why not Cook and Vancouver?” Taylor asks.
“Excuse me, sir?”
“You said Columbus or Magellan, but that’s preposterous. Magellan was a madman who tortured his crew and never made the whole trip, and Columbus, to be honest, is completely overblown. The dignity alone that Captain Cook commanded…”
“Yeah, yeah, OK. Cook and Magellan? Frances Drake? Whoever. The point is…” Calvin walks to the glass and points. “This,” the pudgy showman continues, “is right here, right now. Got it?! Everyone here needs to admit the real reason we want to go down to that mysterious blue planet, figure out the atmosphere, and collect some space plasma. It’s not because it’s our job. No. It’s time we’re all honest and admit we are now part of something much bigger than ourselves. It’s not just our job, it’s our story. It’s our story as human beings, it’s our instinct to explore!”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: exploration-quotes, first-contact, science-fiction

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#10

“Everything feels impossibly vivid, like a memory stolen from a fairytale.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, The Hunter and the Star Queen

tags: adventure, adventure-fantasy, adventure-reads, atmospheric-reads, cosmic-wonder, dreamlike, quote-of-the-day, science, science-fantasy, speculative-fiction

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#11

“The music stops as they walk out of the forest toward the smooth extra-terrestrial spacecraft glistening in the sun on the far side of the meadow. To Atom, the ship feels like a time machine. Steven and Sylvia watch them with deadpan stares as the three astronauts walk with the spectacle of eclectic, colorful characters on feathered horseback following. A breeze picks up and Atom glances back to see stoic faces with vibrant robes and dresses flowing in the wind.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: adventure-reads, alien-world, cinematic-reading, epic-sci-fi, planetary-romance, portal-vibes, science-fantasy, space-and-swords, strange-new-worlds, worldbuilding

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#12

“That kind of leader usually manages to show up whenever there’s a culture in crisis. People get scared stupid, and they listen to anybody who sounds like he has a plan to get them out of the jam they’re in.”
― N.S. Wikarski, The Mountain Mother Cipher

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#13

“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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#14

“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

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#15

“It seems to me that we are the ones who choose beauty or ugliness. And yes, too often we choose the latter.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: choices, christian-fantasy, faith, fantasy, fantasy-books, fantasy-readers, human-nature, humanism, moral-choices, reflective-reads

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#16

“By muck and by mud, as I see it, when we were blest we made the blessing a curse. And when we were cursed, the curse became our blessing!”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

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

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#17

“Because your own soul is in bondage, do you resent the freedom of another?”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: christian-fantasy, faith-journey, fantasy-journey, freedom-and-bondage, inner-conflict, journey-of-life, moral-choice, redemption, thoughtprovoking

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#18

“Once you start liking someone, the truth is harder to see.”
― 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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#19

“I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: admire, bitch, confidence, critic, inspirational, life, writing

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#20

“We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: acid, love-gone-wrong, love-hurts, poison, reflection

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#21

“I'm not into this whole "move with the times" thing. I reckon we should just decide on a year and stick with it.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: cynicism, humour, life, philosophy, writers-life

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#22

“A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris had stopped again, his silhouette a stark black juxtaposition against the background of illuminated branches.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: descriptive-prose, visual-moments

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#23

“The belief that time heals most traumas is, I fear, not to be relied upon.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: literary-fiction, memory, psychological-fiction, quiet-reflection, regret, thought-provoking, trauma-and-healing

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#24

“I wish I had a canvas and could paint the serene colours of eternity from the harsh palette that is planet Earth.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: fiction, human-nature, literary-fiction, mortality, poetic, poetic-fiction, romantic

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#25

“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

tags: farming, living, nature

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#26

“Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.”
― Aldo Leopold

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#27

“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.”
― Aldo Leopold

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#28

“I feel a deep sense of security in this single-mindedness of freight trains”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

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#29

“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: choice, life, man

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#30

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: writing

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