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#1

“Her firm belief was that things would be better in society if there was a periodic ‘social cleansing’ to eliminate those influences that are considered unsavory. She sounds like she’d be fun at parties,” the officer joked.”
― Kathleen Lopez, Thirteen for Dinner

tags: dramatic, enemies, great-characters, high-society, lively, murder-mystery, socialites, suspenseful, tense, who-done-it

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#2

“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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#3

“If climate drives business results, what drives climate? 50-70% of how employees perceive their organization’s climate corresponds to the actions of one person: their manager.”
― Raymond Wheeler, Lift: Five Practices Great Managers Do Consistently: Raise Performance and Morale - See Your Employees Thrive

tags: advancement, continuous-improvement, educational, employee-engagement, growth, leadership, management, people-development, progression

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#4

“...The human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
― N. H. Kleinbaum

tags: inspirational-quotes, philosophy

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#5

“The fear that lies at the heart. Only this can keep you from what is yours. Conquer the fear in your heart and you may have anything that you desire.”
― Chuck Dixon, Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1

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#6

“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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#7

“No, not secrets so much as just the Secret. What he knew and had not told anybody, what he knew about his mother that had caused the divorce, what he knew, what he knew--- the Secret.”
― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

tags: personal-use

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#8

“And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#9

“Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: betrayals, constancy, courage, cowardice, steadfastness, truthfulness

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#10

“Travel is the epitome of expansion, connection, and discovery – both of the world and one-self. It's a profound experience that transcends geography, opening our hearts to the mesmerising tapestry of our world. Travel invites us to shatter the confines of our daily routines and perspectives, guiding us to embrace fresh outlooks, alternative lifestyles, and mind-boggling traditions.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: inspirational, life-lessons, travel, travel-writing, wisdom

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#11

“In one breath, you fear the government getting involved with unions, welfare, or immigration laws all, in essence, aimed at helping our poor fellow Americanyet, in another breath, you look for tariffs and even subsidies.”
― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries

tags: american-history, book-quotes, class-politics, gilded-age, historical-fiction, industrial-america, labor-history, social-commentary

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#12

“Eshra’s arena, dark and vile, like a black mold growing on the skin of the world. Yet oddly beautiful. The longer I stared at those walls, the more beautiful they appeared. Strong. Inviting.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: atmospheric-writing, beautiful-horror, dark-fantasy, epic-fantasy, gothic-fantasy, immersive-reads, saveable-quote, temptation, worldbuilding

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#13

“I’m pretty sure she’s got an angel job now where she plucks a large handful of flowers and carries them up to God where they will bloom even brighter than on earth.”

Can we ask God to bring her back home?”
You know what, she’s already home.” Starla patted her chest. “She’ll always be right here in our hearts.”
But I can’t give her a hug.”

Yes, you can . . . if you hug yourself or me or Willa or Daddy or Big Pop or GoGo you’re hugging her because she’s a part of us.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

tags: fiction, fiction-novel, guilt, love, mystery, redemption, romance, sorrow, suffering

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#14

“Another is a friend, a boon companion, who will not be with you when sorrow comes.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

tags: book-quotes, friendship, grief, historical-fiction, reflective-reads, tender, truths-of-life, wisdom

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#15

“Are you really a reporter?” asked Brown. “You already asked me that. Come back to Levita, take the pardon.”  “I doubt I’ll live long enough to get there,” said Brown bitterly. “I hope you survive. You are a fighter. And we have the antidote for your habit on Levita. I suggest you take a vacation. There’s nothing much that’s going to happen here.” With that she left, leaving Brown more confused than ever. He was a father, he had a son. And, the Levitians had a cure for his drug-addled body.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: contemporary-fiction, intrigue, manipulation, mystery, suspense, thriller

447 likes

#16

“I can feel her pulse through our linked hands, steady and strong—matching mine.”
― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance

tags: hand-holding, heartbeats, love-stories, quiet-intimacy, romance-vibes, sapphic-romance, slow-burn, tender-moments, wlwbooks

25 likes

#17

“If you cannot answer all the questions, choose “C” as the answer. Chances are that you’ll accidentally get a few correct!”
― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University

tags: college-life, exam-season, nonfiction, relatable, student-humor, study-survival, test-taking

87 likes

#18

“The April forced ‘Resettlement’ of the villages of Long Phuoc, and Long Tan inflamed the already seething hatred of foreigners by the local Vietnamese people. They had only recently removed the French yoke after almost a century of cruel and repressive French rule. Now here were the Americans and their allies who in the Vietnamese eyes were continuing to do as the French had done before them. Into this sort of environment of hate, the Australian soldiers were sent to complete what the Americans had started.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: educational, entertaining, factual, indochina-war, insightful, political-dictatorship, united, unity, unrest, warring

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#19

“Blood began to flow, at first cautiously, as if embarrassed by its appearance; a few thin red lines exploring the gravitational trajectory of its new terrain. Now it flowed faster, steadily staining her pale flesh a horrific red.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: blood, descriptive-prose, horror

266 likes

#20

“How could he possibly say the words?”
― J L MARRAIN, THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER

tags: book-quotes, character-moment, coming-of-age, emotional-tension, family, fantasy, readers

40 likes

#21

“... tall apartment blocks and industrial buildings flashed by. The sky had clouded over. Raya’s reflection flickered in the window. She looked younger and sadder than she’d imagined.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: comingofage, relatablereads, restlesshearts, secondchances, yafantasy, yalit

27 likes

#22

“We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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#23

“The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice...”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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#24

“Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced”
― Barbara Tuchman

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#25

“I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

152 likes

#26

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

tags: brain, mind

3736 likes

#27

“Noi eravamo come i cavalieri dell’antica leggenda, che veleggiavano lungo un mistico lago verso l’ignoto regno del crepuscolo, verso la sconfinata terra del tramonto. Ma non arrivammo nella terra del tramonto, andammo a finire contro il barchino da pesca sul quale stavano pescando i tre vecchi.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Tre uomini in barca

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#28

“It’s your life”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: feel-good-fiction, friendship, growing-up, kids-books, kindness, life-lessons, middle-grade, support-system, talking-animals

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#29

“All right, see you then. Auwaa” — peace, said King Kaskae.”
― J.L. Marrain, THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER

tags: adventure-reads, culture-and-language, fantasy, found-family, hopeful-moments, new-worlds, portal-fantasy, ya

31 likes

#30

“Without their help, she feared they would all be lost forever.”
― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode

tags: adventure-reads, courage, fantasy, friendship, high-stakes, loyalty, middle-grade, teamwork

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