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#1

“King Norodom of Cambodia replied, “Lt. General Kawamura of the Japanese Imperial Army, It is my understanding that you Japanese are granting my people a partial freedom which is always subject to the approval of any laws we make by the Japanese Government in Tokyo!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

tags: determination, difficulty, experience, fighting, inspiring, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty

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#2

“The anchor symbolizes clarity and courage during chaos and confusion,” my Grand-mere says. “Chaos and Confusion, aren’t those your cats names?” Now I know her story is a delusion.”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot

tags: biographical-literary-fiction, captivating, complex, drama, gripping, intrigue, page-turner, relationships, unpredictable, women-in-history

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#3

“The seclusion of this ranch house threatened to take her breath away, but she managed to smile. So this is what it’s like to be a country girl.”
― Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

tags: action, drama, excitement, gripping, literary-fiction, love, romance

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#4

“Somethings wrong,’ he told her.
‘Be specific Jack,’ she said pressuring him.
Jack turned again to the desert. ‘We should already be dead,’ he said. ‘That’s what’s wrong.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

tags: android, fast-paced, future, gripping, literary-fiction, mission, mystery, tags-adventure, thrilling

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#5

“People rarely search for bodies in ceilings…”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

tags: adventure, colonization, cyberpunk, epic, original, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, space, thriller

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#6

“Conventional belief holds that after triumphing over a mid-career bout with polio, FDR went on to serve two vigorous terms as gov- ernor of New York and three-plus more as president of the United States, succumbing unexpectedly to a stroke on April 12, 1945. In truth, Franklin spent those eventful twenty-four years battling swarms of maladies including polio’s ongoing crippling effects, life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding, two incurable cancers, severe cardiovascular disease, and epilepsy.”
― Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

tags: authorative, democracy, fdr, freedom, historical-biography, history, medical-history, presidency, researched, roosevelt

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#7

“The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

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#8

“يحتاج الإنسان إلى قصة داخلية مستمرة للحفاظ على نفسه وهويته *”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

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#9

“Chafing at custom's chain;”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

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#10

“You never fail until you quit trying.”
― Tom Sechrist

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#11

“And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

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#12

“war. There was now no point in a war that might once have been justified as a search for free subsistence and living space – it had degenerated into vast, inhuman mass slaughter, negating all cultural values, and it can never be justified to the German people; it will be utterly condemned by the nation as a whole. All the torturing of Poles under arrest, the shooting of prisoners of war and their bestial treatment – that can never be justified either.”
― Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

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#13

“Elizabeth felt as if every cell in her body was aflame with desire.”
― Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin, Sacrifices Beyond Kingdoms: A Provocative Romance Torn Between Continents and Cultures

tags: anger, cultures, danger, family, fiction, loyalty, sacrifice, secrets, strong-women, territory

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#14

“He cringed each morning as the newspapers were brought to him. The media was eating the story up. His anger grew as he read the suppositions and the innuendos; the fact that his life was being laid bare for the entire world to see.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

tags: crime, death, fast-paced, mystery-thriller, suffering

49 likes

#15

“Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fiction, historical-fantasy, intrigue, magic, mystery

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#16

“Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, athens, democracy, educational, evolution, fiction, greece, love, love-story, novel

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#17

“Nearing the Riefler's big red brick house he could see the yellow light spill out on the galerie Yvonne had insisted her German husband wrap around the house. There was a tightening in Victor's chest. It happened to him whenever he got close to the Riefler's house, or church on Sunday- anytime he thought he might catch a glimpse of Celena.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: captivating, drama, dramatic, fiction-writing, intrigue, literary-novel, passion, relationships, tense, torment

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#18

“What’s “ague?”‘ Raya asked.
‘Malaria.’ Oscar said.
‘Oh, great.’
‘Hey, you want plague? They got that too.’ Raya ignored
the cat.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, coming-of-age, coming-of-age-fiction, engaging, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, occult, supernatural, young-adult

441 likes

#19

“Are you a student of Shakespeare?"
"He's been dead a long time, so not precisely, but who isn't?" she said.”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

tags: action-and-adventure-literature, action-packed, change, coming-of-age, fiction, literature, love, mountains, myth-and-legend-fiction, ya-fantasy

162 likes

#20

“Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: advanced, bloodshed, drama, exciting, fiction, genetics, lovers, political, supremacist, thrilling

453 likes

#21

“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

282 likes

#22

“Tomorrows needn’t be bad. Maybe they hold the brightest of our days – the compensation for what we had never had.”
― Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

tags: cheerfulness, future-quotes, inspirational-quotes, life-quotes-and-sayings, live-in-the-moment, positive-quotes, positive-thoughts, tomorrow-quotes

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#23

“So, you do speak English. That makes sense now.” Catherine said, shaking her head.

“Of course, I speak English. I’m from Australia, not Tanzania.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

tags: compelling, friendship, fun, humorous-fiction, journey, laugh-out-loud, relationships, rom-com, romance-novel, suspense

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#24

“One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.”
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

tags: aging, growing-old, inspirational, mythology, philosophy, spirituality

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#25

“This world we live in is confusing, overwhelming and painful because he has a condition known as autism.”
― Tina Traverse, Forever, Christian

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#26

“Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or—and the outward semblance is the same—crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more. The latter is perhaps the truest theory. She who has once been a woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transformation.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

tags: womanhood

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#27

“He told me to call him Zorrillo, which means little fox in Spanish.”
― Henri Charrière, Papillon

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#28

“the lady who was coming was one whose opinion was highly thought of, and for whom everybody had a great respect.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

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#29

“My theory was that readers just thought they cared nothing but the action; that really, although they didn't know it, they cared very little about the action. The things they really cared about, and that I cared about, were the creation of emotion through dialog and description. The things they remembered, that haunted them, were not for example that a man got killed, but that in the moment of his death he was trying to pick a paper clip off the polished surface of a desk, and it kept slipping away from him, so that there was a look of strain on his face and his mouth was half open in a kind of tormented grin, and the last thing in the world he thought about was death. He didn't even hear death knock on the door. That damn little paper clip kept slipping away from his fingers.”
― Raymond Chandler

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