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    “Various large trees— willowy peppers and especially the pines—seem to be reaching down to hold your hand.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: descriptive, fiction, humour, insightful, realistic, refreshing, relateable, soul-healing, spiritual, thought-provoking
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    Sara Pascoe
    “I really like Matilda and that's not a clever book, is it? It's for children. But she's my favourite main character because she comes from an awful family and likes reading, like I do. Those special powers must've made her life a lot easier, though. She wouldn't be working in a pub at thirty-two.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo
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  • #3
    “The devil wins only through lies and deception.”
    ― Kathryn Krick
    tags: conscience, goodness, hurt, inner-demons, kindness, light-and-dark, love, monsters, peace, wounded
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    Dawn Chalker
    “Out of the bedroom window, Tara watches the silver moon in the night sky cast a faint glow on the pine trees.  Ian was right.  It’s time to move on.  Not to forget, but to forge ahead.”
    ― Dawn Chalker
    tags: accepting, connection, destiny, feelings, finding-yourself, future, love, motivation, moving-on, uplifting
    225 likes

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    J. Rose Black
    “Callan sucked in a breath. As a sniper, he’d been trained by the Marines to know and recognize moments. 

    Moments when all the training—his focused mind, muscle memory, weapon knowledge . . . 

    When all the preparation—target reconnaissance, angle of attack, position scouting . . . 

    When all the setup—hidden amid the terrain, barrel aimed, trajectory known . . . 

    When everything came together in one crucial moment—when the sniper squeezed the trigger and took his shot.”
    ― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath
    tags: adult-romance, adversity, drama, love, ptsd, relationship, romance, steamy-romcom, suspense
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    Max Nowaz
    “The world is full of magic. You’ve just got to learn how to access it.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
    tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller
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  • #7
    “I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When did you get in?’ We mainly just talked to get familiar with each other.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: grief, humour, imagination, literary-fiction, love, neighbours, rural-fiction, small-town, small-town-fiction
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Colonel Nguyen Van Tan said, “Sauget et Sang, you shall start making amends by confessing your crimes in public here, in this courtroom when the reporters from news services around the world arrive!”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: bad, dangerous, deeds, divided, division, ethics, good, greed, helpless, humanity
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    Lotchie Burton
    “Everybody has scars, and every scar has a story. Especially the ones you don’t see. Those go deeper. And cause more damage.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire
    tags: conspiracies, conspire, domination, finding, heated, heroes, plots, secrets, suspense, thrilling
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    Shafter Bailey
    “The faint outlines of two packages on his front porch attracted his attention. The size of the packages matched his two packages that contained his Christmas gifts and handwritten cards for his son and daughter. Samantha wouldn’t do that, he thought.”
    ― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children
    tags: education-funding, educational-policy, generational-learning, justice, legislative-challenges, moral-responsibility, professional-organizations, resistance, school-reform, societal-change
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  • #11
    Elizabeth George Speare
    “When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.”
    ― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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    David Guterson
    “I owe all a great debt. In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear! DANTE The Divine Comedy”
    ― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
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    Barack Obama
    “I believe in (the American) people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen. I think there's evil in the world. But I think that at the end of the day, if we work hard, and if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that, the world gets a little better each time. That's what this presidency is trying to be about. And I see that in the young people i work with. This is not just drama-obama. This is what I really believe.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: barack, barack-obama, ending, good, good-and-evil, obama, people-are-good, presidency, speech, stay-true-to-yourself, the-young-people, truth
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    John Irving
    “What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”
    ― John Irving, The Cider House Rules
    tags: living, sad
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    Christopher Paolini
    “To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: arya
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  • #16
    Fredrik Backman
    “But the universe gave you both Noah. He’s the bridge between you. That’s why we get the chance to spoil our grandchildren, because by doing that we’re apologizing to our children.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
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