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    Trevor Alan Foris
    “Right, so I wake up in the morgue as me, Grace, but I’m eighteen again and I’m like wow!”
    ― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
    tags: different, exciting, fantasy, original, science-fiction, thrilling, unique
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    Fred Saberhagen
    “But even the best luck is no good until it’s used, and we must find the right way to use it.”
    ― fred Saberhagen, Sightblinder's Story
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    China Miéville
    “With the city like this, don’t we have greater needs than poetry?”
    ― China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris
    tags: poetry
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    “يجب أن يكون الانسان حكيما باعتدال ولكن ليس مفرط الحكمة حتى لا يعرف قدره مسبقا”
    ― Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
    tags: novel, wisdom
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    Arkady Strugatsky
    “Счастливей всех шуты, дураки, сущеглупые и нерадивые, ибо укоров совести они не знают, призраков и прочей нежити не страшатся, боязнью грядущих бедствий не терзаются, надеждой будущих благ не обольщаются»).”
    ― Arkady Strugatsky, Понедельник начинается в субботу
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    Mary Doria Russell
    “Raise your sights, sugar. Aim low all you'll hit is rats, snakes and rock bottom" from Epitaph”
    ― Mary Doria Russell, Epitaph
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    “None of the other kids my age has to do all the grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, and bill paying. It’s just not fair that I have to be an adult when I’m still a kid.”
    ― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community
    tags: book-club-pick, childhood, coming-of-age, emotional-truth, family, heartfelt-reads, historical-fiction, resilience
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  • #8
    “People are becoming more and more like pets in digital cages, where the only meaning of their lives is to consume and isolate themselves from others like themselves.”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: digitalage, modernlifecritique, philosophicalfiction, screentime, socialcommentary, thoughtprovokingreads, wakeupcall
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    Patricia Mather Parker
    “It’s called a hug, Pel said. People beyond the Mists, people who love each other, hug all the time. It’s like sharing thoughts, only with your arms.”
    ― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode
    tags: book-quotes, fantasy, found-family, healing, hope, kid-lit, love, middle-grade, tender-moments
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  • #10
    Max Nowaz
    “Do I have a choice”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
    tags: character-voice, future-world, power-dynamics, quick-read, science-fiction, space-thriller, witty-dialogue
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vulture”. He said, “When the day comes for me to meet my maker and account for my actions, the thing that I would be most proud of is the fact that I fought against and perhaps totally prevented the carrying out of one of the most hare-brained tactical schemes that would have cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of men!”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: determination, difficulty, experience, fighting, inspiring, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty
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    Sara Pascoe
    “Need to fuel the brain for optimal thinking”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
    tags: animal-adventure, character-voice, funny-books, humor, kids-lit, middle-grade, snack-time, talking-animals, weekend-read
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    Susan Rowland
    “We have magic you do not dream of.” That was Janet, although Mary could not see the diminutive witch.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders
    tags: fantasy-quote, magic-and-myth, paranormal-mystery, series-starter, spooky-season-reads, urban-fantasy, witchy-reads
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    Joseph A. Anderson
    “The supposition was that the difference in energy when n (or v) changes by one is therefore equal to hv, the product of the Planck constant and the vibration frequency was always derived using these pre-revolution mechanics. This was, of course, dependent on gravity having an effect on an atomic level, while acknowledging that it does not. Absurd right? But for a transition from level n to level n+ one due to absorption of a photon, the frequency of the photon has nothing to do with Planck…”
    “Atom, for god’s sake, stop it!” Hannah interrupts.
    “Stop? Stop what?”
    “Why do you do this to people?” Hannah says, causing Lylitte to laugh, and the older woman to look at Hannah curiously.
    “What he was going to eventually say is that we’re teaching the stem cells to sing their songs louder so that they harmonize and teach their melody to the host, once it’s introduced,” Billy explains.”
    ― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b
    tags: bio-tech-sci-fi, future-science, hard-sci-fi, nerd-lit, physics-nerd, quantum-talk, regenerative-medicine, science-in-fiction, stem-cells, stem-reads
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    “That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: misery-loves-company, reflection
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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “The moisture in the air sat in the crevices of storefront windows, like the tears that welled in the corners of her dark brown eyes.”
    ― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
    tags: coming-of-age, emotional-reads, grief, historical-fiction, lyrical-prose, strong-heroine, venice
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    Harold Bloom
    “Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere.”
    ― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
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    Omar Farhad
    “At the justice superstore, only the rich is able to buy and the well connected to sell. The falsely accused poor is stuck with a 94 years old, legally blind eyewitness to ultimately deliver the inevitable”
    ― Omar Farhad , Honor and Polygamy by Omar Farhad (7-May-2014) Paperback
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    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
    tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance
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    Emily Brontë
    “And you love Edgar, and Edgar loves you. All seems smooth and easy: where is the obstacle?"
    "Here! and here!" replied Catherine, striking one hand on her forehead, and another on her breast: "in whichever place the soul lives. In my soul and in my heart, I'm convinced I'm wrong!”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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  • #21
    “I have no patience for revelations, for new beginnings, for events that take place beyond the realm of my immediate vision.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
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    Edith Wharton
    “The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
    ― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
    tags: falsehood, family, friends, insincerity, kindness, loneliness, pretense
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