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#1

“If Adam were honest with himself, which he rarely was, he’d come to terms with the fact that beyond his work and the view, he was floundering a bit. His plan had been to take the insurance money, leave his old life behind, and start completely over somewhere new. A place where memories didn’t lurk around every corner.
He hadn’t figured on the memories coming along with him.”
― Kirsten Fullmer

tags: cozy-mystery, small-town-mystery, small-town-romance, sweet-romance

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#2

“they’re teaching us that the real Catholic belief about Mary is that she got pregnant through her ear—that “Just as Eve listened to Satan and gave birth to sin, so Mary listened to Gabriel and became pregnant with the Son of God.”
― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood

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#3

“As she taped up her latest cuts, she wondered if, somewhere, there was a version of herself having fun. Feet up on the back of a theater seat while movie monsters slunk out of the shadows, and people in the audience screamed because it was fun to be afraid when you knew you were safe.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

tags: fear

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#4

“There is no reason to regard God as immune from
consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is
certainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neither
proved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: humor, religion, science

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#5

“May your day be filled with joy with a sprinkling of positivity on top.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: explore, happiness, imagination, joy, love, magic, pride, wander, writing

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#6

“Do you know where Jean de Tournet is?” Jason asked.
“He is dead, Uncle,” Charlotte said flatly.
“How do you know?”
“I killed him in 1943. He was doing business with the Nazis. He tried to rape me” – she stopped and shivered – “but I killed him before he could.”
Jason and Sophie both looked at Charlotte with horror. This was the first time Jason had showed any genuine emotion throughout the evening. It was fear.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

tags: holocaust-survivor, love-and-loss, mood-driven, plot-twists, secret-identities, small-town-intrigue, star-crossed-romance, suspense-novel, tragic-resolutions, unexpected-endings

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#7

“What happens to our island affects all of us, including my boys.” Isa looked Marco in the eyes, like a boa constrictor eyeing its prey. “That gives me every right to an opinion.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: atmospheric, compromise, cultural-crossroads, cultural-heritage, feminism, moral-decay, redemption, rural-vs-urban-life, thought-provoking, women-s-fiction

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#8

“Fairness isn’t about charity. It’s smart business.”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

tags: academic, bias, chemistry, emotional-intelligence, grounded, power-balance, relationship, research, teamwork, workplace-norms

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#9

“The subject of quantum physics is identifying the smallest parts of an entity and understanding its nature and its part in the whole of existence. In every case we come to the understanding that there is no objective world that we perceive, except for the conceptions inside of our minds. We are all collectively dreaming together the empirical realm. We collectively hold the fundamental energies in the frequencies of the electromagnetic wave patterns that we perceive. The quality of our experience is created in our consciousness.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

tags: as-within-so-without, awareness, beings-of-light, infinite, intuition, module, quantum-state, raising-vibrations, self-awareness, vibrational-energy

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#10

“For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

tags: humans, instinct, learning

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#11

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

tags: lovers

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#12

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

tags: relationships

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#13

“Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

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#14

“Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt.
"Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired.
"Very good answer.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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#15

“It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses which were so thick that they were matted together.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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#16

“There is a wonderful saying that goes: ‘A person needs, on average, two years to learn to speak and then an entire lifetime to learn to be silent.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: innerpeace, listening, mindfulness, philosophicalfiction, silence, thepythagorean, wisdomquotes

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#17

“The salt of Elat stored on the deck began to dissolve and the purple colour in the water deepened as it spread out. As the concentration of salt increased around the first transport, the ferocity of the othium fires became more intense. In a few moments the heat and the salt caused the othium to reach critical level, and a huge explosion blew both transports into matchwood. The blasts grew in intensity as rock after rock exploded.”
― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#18

“I watched her undress with moonlight shivering across the room from behind sheer curtains that moved with the currents from the hearth fire.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#19

“A uniformed cop around 6’4” with pock marked face squinted, “Looky here, if it ain’t one a the bad seed O’Shaughnessy’s, female version.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, adventure, drama, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, mystery, thriller

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#20

“A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris had stopped again, his silhouette a stark black juxtaposition against the background of illuminated branches.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: descriptive-prose, visual-moments

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#21

“For your information, Dolores, Rudi gave me full leave to do what I think is best for our children.”
― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

tags: action, conquest, drama, greed, gunpowder, mysterious, orphan, truth, war, weapon

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#22

“There is no word that admits of more various significations, and has made more varied impressions on the human mind, than that of liberty.” (Montesquieu) In order to exist, liberty and justice in a society, there should be equality in this society before them and together with them. Only then can we speak of humanism. Only socially equal personalities are free. And only free and equal in rights personalities could “love each other like brothers.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: communism, east-europe, effective, historical, oppressive-regime, regime, society, totalitarian-government, totalitarian-system, ussr

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#23

“Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, engaging, fiction, literature, new-adult, romance, ya, ya-litterature

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#24

“ It was a letter that described someone’s misfortunes so vividly that the recipient of the letter would feel better about his or her own misfortunes.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

tags: bookclubreads, compassion, epistolaryvibes, philosophicalfiction, readerswhofeeldeeply, traumaandhealing

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#25

“There is almost nothing worse than a much-loved face transformed by death, or physical decay, or horrifying illness. Those faces are monsters of the most frightening kind—the unbearable beloved.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

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#26

“Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.”
― Irvine Welsh, Skagboys

tags: philosophy

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#27

“So many men who had dodged death over there now seemed addicted to its lure.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

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#28

“It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

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#29

“Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

tags: humor

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#30

“The names of virtues, with their precepts, were:
1. Temperance. Eat not do dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. Order. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. Frugality. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. Industry. Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. Sincerity. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. Justice. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. Moderation. Avoid extreams; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloths, or habitation.
11. Tranquillity. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. Chastity. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.
13. Humility. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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