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#1

“He would tell you to leave?”
“Yes. He is…was a rude man, but it didn’t bother me. I was used to it. As I said, I’d gotten used to Mr. Hines. He is…was, despite his rudeness, a good boss. He never questioned me or my brother on how much we spent on the house. If there was something that needed fixing, he’d instruct my brother on what was to be done.”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

tags: fiction-novel, murder-mystery, suspense-thriller

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#2

“By disconnecting from the ever-whirling devices, we reconnect with ourselves. I don’t mean in some heavy, existential, angsty kind of way. I mean reconnecting with ourselves to reconnect with our delights, our memories, our dreams and plans, and our very experience of the present moment in a natural and satisfying way. It provides a refreshing and destressing dip into the fresh lake of life. It also means reconnecting with the people around us, our loved ones, family, and friends.”
― Art Rios

tags: connection, discovery-of-oneself, self-worth

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#3

“The usual warmth of his hands wasn’t there. They chilled my skin as they slipped to my waist, and I realized he was scared.”
― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

tags: avenger, dark-magic, falsely-accused, fantasy, magical-world, mythical-creatures, on-the-run, romance, underworld, vampires

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#4

“Under the lake by Anvil Creek, a man has been frozen much like another man in the same wilderness had been frozen, in this area of Alaska where silence is the loudest sound.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor

tags: alaska, crime-fiction, historical-fictionrical, science-fiction, thriller

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#5

“This book is dedicated to my children, Pi, Coco, and Jay. When your grandkids are old enough to read this book, tell them how much I loved you.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

tags: death, murder, revenge, thriller

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#6

“We're supposed to strive for harmony, and that's what the art of tea is supposed to accomplish... but harmony is very, very difficult to achieve in this country. Tea ceremony is powerless. But it's also not such a bad thing either. You should enjoy it while you can.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

tags: battle, government, harmony, tea-ceremony

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#7

“The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

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#8

“Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#9

“I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a
bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely
than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south
wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new
house.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#10

“I don't want to have 'carnal knowledge' with any old Zuni, asshole." From the way she seemed to relish the word asshole as it unwound from her lips, I guessed that she rarely used it. It sounded like a mark of esteem, and I was momentarily very jealous of Arthur. I wondered what it might take to get Jane to call me an asshole too.”
― Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

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#11

“The Taliban want to turn the girls of Pakistan into identical, lifeless dolls.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

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#12

“God is dead," said Maneck. "That's what a German philosopher wrote."

She was shocked. "Trust the Germans to say such things," she frowned. "And do you believe it?"

"I used to. But now I prefer to think that God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don't fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

tags: god, philosophy

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#13

“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.”
― Richard P. Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

tags: physics, science

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#14

“How do you tell someone she has to learn to love herself and her own body before she can be loved or love?”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

tags: love

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#15

“Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.”
― Daniel Defoe

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#16

“I mourn for the quicksilvery racehorse passage of time. Its swiftness has caught me with the same ineffable start that comes to every man and woman who lives long enough. It remains as the single great surprise of any life. In”
― Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir

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#17

“Slowly at first, and then in a rush, more people came to settle here and bought with them new ways and new sounds, some very beautiful and some less so. But everyone was so busy with the things that had to be don that they scarcely had time to listen at all. And, as you know, a sound which is not heard disappears forever and is not to be found again.
People laughed less and grumbled more, sang less and shouted more, and the sounds they made grew louder and uglier. It became difficult to hear even the birds or the breeze, and soon everyone stopped listening for them.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#18

“Keep those eyes of yours, mate, wide-fucking-open. Never know when it’s watching.”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

tags: awakening, dystopian, evidence, fiction, nightmarish, pain, political-fiction, politicians, science-fiction, thought-provoking

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#19

“The intercourse was over in no time. That intercourse gave Karl a feeling of unprecedented pleasure. On the other hand, it failed to bring back Luna to reality, as she had been floating into another dimension. And it left Fiona with a deep hatred for Luna.”
― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

tags: affairs-of-the-heart, bring-out-the-best, empowerment, fulfilment, kinky, literature, lust, passion, profound, restless-spirit

138 likes

#20

“No one can make you feel inferior unless you allow them to.”
― Sherman Kennon

tags: inspiration, inspirational-quotes

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#21

“The morgue was the name the human workers gave to this room in the facility. They were careful not to utter it in front of the androids, for fear of offending them.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

tags: adventure, dystopian, fast-paced, future, gripping, human-evolution, literary-fiction, mission, mystery, thrilling

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#22

“That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: misery-loves-company, reflection

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#23

“…the painting was now all finished, she would leave the masking tape on till it dried. It was satisfying to do this. A job with a beginning, middle and end, and people to have dinner with. Don’t think about it, keep busy. Got no money anyway.”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

tags: beyond-the-grave, cocaine-addiction, demon, emotional, exorcism, fear, ghost, lies, lonely, manor-house

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#24

“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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#25

“Scratching off a postcard to Charlie Taylor, Orville expressed the same spirit in a lighter vein. Flying machine market has been very unsteady the past two days. Opened yesterday morning at about 208 (100% means even chance of success) but by noon had dropped to 110. These fluctuations would have produced a panic, I think, in Wall Street, but in this quiet place it only put us to thinking and figuring a little.”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

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#26

“Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.”
― Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil

tags: vampires

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#27

“one can forgive even what they did. But one can never forget.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

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