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#1

“Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge”
― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover

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#2

“Vengeance was one hell of a roommate.”
― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover

tags: black, dagger, dark, lover, wrath

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#3

“I am merely at the midway point in the novel of my own life. On around page 250 of a 500-page tale, maybe even 200. There’s no reason why the next 250, 300, or even 350 pages will not be far more exciting than the first half.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: bigger-and-better-things, don-t-waste-your-time, endless-possibilities, enjoy-life-to-the-fullest, life-is-a-beautiful-journey, life-is-an-adventure, life-is-once, turn-up, unpredictable-future, want-more-out-of-life

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#4

“In his lifetime, he had seen enough injustice to know the world was cold and remorseless and didn’t care one fig about the happiness of people. He tried to live a good life and devote that life to helping others, but he never thought the world would reward him for his efforts. Such a thought would be the ultimate in self-deluding self-aggrandizement, for why would the world care one iota about him?”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: brown-skin, delusions-of-grandeur, good-life, guard-your-heart, reward, self-delusion, ugliness-of-life, ugly-world

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#5

“Inside her mind, she felt increasingly adrift, as if their lovemaking had reached a realm that transcended the physical body. She saw herself float above her body, past her ceiling, through her roof, and higher and higher, the entire world pulsating and alive with sensations. Even these receded as she floated above her town, the pinpoints of the shop windows and car headlights downtown, then she was even higher, above the mighty Mississippi.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: city-lights, feel-free, female-orgasm, lovemaking, magic-of-love, making-love, rise-in-love, sex-magic

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#6

“John knew the best love stories were the ones that were never told. For no medium—no book, no poem, no play or movie—could ever tell a love story in its entirety, its full span and depth, from the exhilarating beginning to the tragic ending of all love stories. He didn’t mind if his life was forgotten—it had never occurred to him to want to be remembered—as long as he had truly lived, and to live life without experiencing one great love story was to not live at all.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: being-remembered, complicated-love, gamble, irreplaceable-love, life-love-truth, live-and-love, love-is-the-source-of-life, nothing-else-matters, spice-of-life, without-love

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#7

“To fight against these falsehoods, though, one needed to be able to see past the present-day and very male-oriented distortion lens to the underlying truth. Beyond question, Molly Valle could do this. A woman whose surface appearance, eyeglasses and conservative clothes, fit the schoolmarm stereotype to a T. Yet she had sloughed off that exterior and society’s restrictions as effortlessly as she had her clothes, and during their lovemaking, she had not only kept up with him but often passed ahead of him. With other women, he had seen the embers of passion but never the flame. Tonight, he had witnessed the bonfire.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: appearances-are-deceiving, don-t-judge-a-book-by-its-cover, expectations-vs-reality, force-to-be-reckoned-with, gender-norms, insatiable, looking-down-on-others, love-fever, sexual-health

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#8

“The goddess of sex that most men had fantasized about since their teenage years wasn’t to be found in some red-light district of town or in an illicit magazine but was actually standing right next to them at work, at the library, at the coffee shop. And they were too blind to see it!”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: blind-spots, don-t-judge-a-book-by-its-cover, hidden-treasure, librian, plot-twist, sex-appeal, sex-goddess, what-men-want

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#9

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: history, misattributed-napoleon-bonaparte

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#10

“These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time."
Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail."
"I was referring to the Bible."
Faukman cringed. "I knew that.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: harry-potter, holy-grail, humor

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#11

“Her eyes were olive green―incisive and clear.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: green-eyes

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#12

“The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman?

"Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: da-vinci-code, dan-brown, the-da-vinci-code

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#13

“We fear what we do not understand...”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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#14

“إن سوء الفهم يولّد الشك.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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#15

“It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

tags: synthesist-s-view

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#16

“As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

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#17

“Her bedroom window overlooked the garden, and now and then, usually when she was "having a bad spell," Mr. Helm had seen her stand long hours gazing into the garden, as though what she saw bewitched her. ("When I was a girl," she had once told a friend, "I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things, and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough...")”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

tags: flowers, nature, trees

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#18

“Imagination, of course, can open any door—turn the key and let terror walk right in.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

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#19

“Then starting home, he walked toward the trees, and under them, leaving behind him the big sky, the whisper of wind voices in the wind-bent wheat.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

tags: last-sentence

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#20

“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

tags: perry-smith, suicide

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#21

“Time rarely weighed upon him, for he had many methods of passing it.”
― Capote Truman, In Cold Blood

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#22

“My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: sir-leigh-teabing

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#23

“Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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#24

“أن الرجال قد يفعلون أي شيء لتجنب ما يخشونه أكثر مما قد يبذلونه للحصول على شيء يرغبون فيه.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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#25

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#26

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#27

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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