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  • #1
    Eoin Dempsey
    “Because I needed to be valuable again. I needed to do something useful, something good.”
    ― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest
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    Lori Gottlieb
    “Did I tell you that she created a shared Google calendar to make sure I won’t forget things that are ‘important’”—with his free hand, John does an air quote as he says the word important—“so now I’m even more stressed because my calendar is filled with Margo’s things and I’ve already got a packed schedule!”
    ― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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    Amanda Lamb
    “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
    ― Amanda Lamb, Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs
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    Tanya Thompson
    “There’s no English equivalent for silovik. It doesn’t translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the KGB and the GRU, and then a shift from communism to capitalism followed by a gear-grinding reverse into despotism.”
    ― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia
    tags: capitalism, communism, despotism, fsb, kgb, machiavellian, politics, russia, silovik
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  • #5
    Delia Owens
    “His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what's necessary to defend a woman.”
    ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
    tags: a-real-man, real-men
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    Vivian Barz
    “When people asked about his schizophrenia, Eric, who didn’t exactly flaunt his illness but wasn’t ashamed of it, either, offered up the comparison of alcoholism. Not every drunk is a single bourbon away from skid row, just like every schizophrenic is not a tatty-haired, crazy-eyed gunman who delights in murdering alien-people from clock towers. There are functioning alcoholics just as there are functioning schizophrenics, individuals who work, maintain homes, and have hobbies, goals, and relationships like every other slob on the planet.”
    ― Vivian Barz, Forgotten Bones
    tags: dark-humor, forgotten-bones, mental-health-awareness, mental-health-quotes, mental-health-stigma, schizophrenia, schizophrenic, vivian-barz
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    Mark T. Sullivan
    “But most people are essentially good. You have to believe that.” “Even the Nazis?” Father Re hesitated, and then said, “I can’t explain the Nazis. I don’t think the Nazis can explain the Nazis.”
    ― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky
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    Mark Manson
    “And if we reject nothing (perhaps in fear of being rejected by something ourselves), we essentially have no identity at all.”
    ― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
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  • #9
    Josh Malerman
    “Your baby is smarter than you think.”
    ― Josh Malerman, Bird Box
    tags: baby, intelligence
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  • #10
    Gregg Olsen
    “These aren’t”
    ― Gregg Olsen, The Girl in the Woods
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  • #11
    Robert Bryndza
    “tabloids. Stills”
    ― Robert Bryndza, The Girl in the Ice
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  • #12
    Tara Westover
    “He had defined me to myself, and there’s no greater power than that.”
    ― Tara Westover, Educated
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    Stieg Larsson
    “At some point on the morning of the second day she came to a terrifying realisation. She had no idea how it had happened or how she was supposed to cope with it. She was in love for the first time in her life.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: lisbeth-salander, stieg-larsson, the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo
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    Todor Bombov
    “Of course, during the centuries the justice was always a rather elastic term, but always till now and “everywhere the justice is the same thing – the usefully for the stronger” (Plato, The Republic).”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: civil-society, class-inequality, democrats, dictatorship, oppression, political, political-system, scientific-socialism, socialism, unity
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  • #15
    “Making it to the Super Bowl is something few and far between. Many football players never get the opportunity to make it that far.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: complex, drama, happy, help, humour, life, love, people, philosophy, self-discovery
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  • #16
    Michael G. Kramer
    “Heinrich replied, “The fact that Kramer’s radio station has  been wiped out by the British Navy in now classified information!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
    tags: ancestry, australia, discovery, drama, generational, history, identity, life-experiences, vietnam, war
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    Rebecca Harlem
    “Fiona grabbed Rick in her arms and sobbed, “Oh Rick, this song drives me crazy. I can’t stop myself when you’re around me. I’m losing control of myself. Rick, please tell them to stop, otherwise I don’t know what I will do.” Saying this, Fiona placed her lips on Rick’s lips. Now Rick was no longer in a position to speak so that he could ask the DJ to change the song. He only needed to signal the DJ to do that. But after tasting the moisture on Fiona’s lips, which was like dewdrops on rose petals, he realized that this endeavour would have required a lot of courage, which he most certainly lacked at the time.”
    ― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac
    tags: affairs, change, cheating, fiction, gripping, lust, personal, plot-twists, sexy, unbridled-desire
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  • #18
    Max Nowaz
    “You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma
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  • #19
    “That noise you are hearing, drowning out
the blows of life, is the wind touching the fronds of the thirty or so eighty-foot-tall palm trees encircling the centrally located swimming pool. You have fun thinking this sound might be the Holy Spirit.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: faith, fiction, human-seeking, insightful, passionate, personal-refelction, refelctive, soul-healing, spirituality, thought-provoking
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  • #20
    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “The family discussed some of the things they could do to stop the forest from being cut down. They talked about making flyers and delivering them in the neighbourhood.”
    ― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water
    tags: eco-consciousness, emotional-impact, emotional-intelligence, gratitude, kindness-matters, life-energy, personal-growth, playful-exploration, storytelling, teaching-respect
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  • #21
    J. Rose Black
    “If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement. Just him, a quiet mind and his breath.”
    ― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath
    tags: drama, fiction, fun, general-fiction, laugh-out-loud, love, relationships, romance-novel, satire-fiction, suspense
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  • #22
    H.G. Wells
    “It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.”
    ― H.G. Wells, A Dream of Armageddon
    tags: love, madness, reason, war
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  • #23
    Diana Gabaldon
    “Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon
    tags: jamie-fraser, outlander
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  • #24
    Tim Butcher
    “I can think of no concept more abused in modern Africa than sovereignty”
    ― Tim Butcher, Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country
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  • #25
    Michael Ondaatje
    “Commissioner Harris at the far end stared along the mad pathway. This was his first child and it had already become a murderer.”
    ― Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
    tags: bridge, harris, lewis, lion, michael-ondaatje, nun, patrick, rowland, skin
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  • #26
    Yann Martel
    “No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”
    ― Mark Twain
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