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#1

“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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#2

“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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#3

“The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: war

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#4

“By our warriors having a written German language, we can rob the Romans of the advantages that they currently hold over us.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1

tags: historical-fiction, language-power, quote-of-the-day, quotes-about-life, quotes-to-live-by, resistance-quotes, strategy, thoughtful-reads

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#5

“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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#6

“She stared at the center of the target, a face she’d never seen before, but recognized. The image she’d pieced together in her mind of the bastard that murdered her darling Grandpa Anders. She aimed the gun, hands steady, pulled the trigger. Kaboom. Blew his face apart.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

tags: murder, mystery, suspense

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#7

“Unless you drive a Ferrari or a Rolls Royce, your new set of tires might look old to you now, in comparison to that Maserati.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

tags: action, drama, exciting, exploration, fiction, love, passion, romance, sex, suspense

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#8

“Who’d guess I fight crime?”
“Don’t exaggerate. You catch people doing the nasty with people they have no business getting nasty with.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

tags: manipulation, mystery, women-s-strength

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#9

“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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#10

“So, let me get this right. You invented this groundbreaking medical technology that changes the way we literally do everything in trauma and blood, and you are out here, 30.3 light-years away from Earth, on a planet where everyone involved in the Eden project was a hundred percent sure there’d be no DNA, blood, or anything? And now here we are playing with the DNA of an alien race? What is this? What is actually going on here?”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: alien-dna, bio-tech, deep-space, ethics-in-science, first-contact, genetic-engineering, hard-sci-fi, medical-sci-fi, science-gone-wrong, space-exploratio

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#11

“Atom, all life and reality as we know it is created by consciousness… your dream made it probable that we would find life,”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: beautiful-writing, dream-logic, emotional-sci-fi, hope-after-loss, human-condition, inner-worlds, literary-sci-fi, loss-and-healing, lyrical-sci-fi, quote-of-the-day

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#12

“The body we choose to be born in, and the people we find in life, are the expression of the soul, and your frequency therapies don’t conflict with this.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Return to Planet Earth: The Star Dreamers: book 2

tags: human-connection, identity, metaphysical-fiction, sci-fi, sci-fi-adventure, sci-fi-fantasy, science-fiction, soul-and-science, spiritual-sci-fi

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#13

“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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#14

“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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#15

“When they reached the Hôtel de Ville, early as it was, its fountain waters already danced in the lights playing on the magnificent old building. On good days, dusk stays long in Paris, but barely into September as it was now, evenings stretched way into the night”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, mystery, noir-mystery, suspense, thriller

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#16

“From up here, the world doesn’t seem so small and confining.”
― 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

591 likes

#17

“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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#18

“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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#19

“How it will come about remains a question. That it will come about is not a point in question.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: christian-fantasy, faith, faith-quotes, fantasy, hope, perseverance, promise, quest-fantasy

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#20

“The promise of rain, of hope, of life. Are the clouds but an illusion? Laughing, do they pass over this land only to leave the forest languishing and its thirst unsatisfied?”
― 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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#21

“Being in love is so often depicted as a blissful condition in the comforting pages of fiction. It was not so for me.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: adult-fiction, emotional-conflict, literary-fiction, love, romantic, romantic-tragedy

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#22

“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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#23

“But though we can reconstruct history, we can’t always imagine the sentiments of our ancestors when they seem so intolerant compared to our own.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich

tags: ancestry, family-history, genealogy, historical-fiction, historical-mystery, historical-romance, human-nature, quote-of-the-day

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#24

“Against the tide of violence
something spoken from the silence
like an arrow parting air
with the sharpened point of love.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

tags: chances, change, compassion, completion, dig-deep, explore, joy, love-yourself, respecting-others, strength

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#25

“Like snow melt
and passing leaves,
we show our faces
then are gone,
and like rivers we pour.”
― Don Hynes

tags: growth, inspirational, inspiring, introspective, laugh, luck, motivating, motivational, personal-development, struggle

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#26

“In the embrace of silence,
just me and a few words
waiting in the shadows,
loitering in the dark
like hungry lovers.
”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

tags: attitude, blessing, inspiration, motiv

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#27

“She's a gift, you see,
rare and precious
as wild grass
or heron in flight;
unpredictable,
beyond imitation,
gemstone perfect.
”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

tags: confidence, destiny, explore, journey, opportunity, power, pride, satisfaction, values, wander

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#28

“I never will be sober while desire guides me, lured by darkness to distant light,
where sky gods celebrate those who love night glory, who dare once more to sing among the stars.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: cosmic-imagery, desire, longing, meditative-writing, mystic-poetry, night-thoughts, poetry, starlight, wild-spirit

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#29

“If the goal is to build a life of meaning and not just motion (or worse, being 'sloppy busy'), then we need to regularly assess and recalibrate how we spend the currency of life—our time.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: life-purpose, life-quotes, meaningful-living, purpose-driven-life, purpose-of-life, quotes-about-life, quotes-to-live-by, work-life-balance

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#30

“Are you living on Someday Island, always waiting for a breeze that never comes?”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

tags: guide-for-living, intentional-living, life-guide, life-purpose, mindset-shift, personal-growth, procrastinating, purpose-driven-life, purpose-of-life, take-the-leap

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