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“I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: defeat, dignity, disgrace, honor

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“Jack. You called? What’s up, buddy?”
When he calls me Jack, I know he is worried or anxious about something. Otherwise, it’s either Ludicrous or Swamp. Not sure where the ‘buddy’ came from. That was a new one.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder in Buckhead

tags: action, adventure, danger, fast-paced, fiction-novel, insight, suspense, thriller, unpredictable

29 likes

“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance

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“rum-drinking pirates, strong-willed women, courtly manners, eccentric behavior, gentle words, and lovely music.”
― John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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