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“I felt a kind of vertigo, as if I were merely plunging from one world to another, and in each I arrived shortly after the end of the world had taken place.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

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“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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“An end to questions or an end to life, she said to herself as she raced towards the unknown.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

tags: action, cruel, drama, history, power, strongwomen, trilogy, wealth, women

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“The person at the other end is answering questions from a person she has never met and about whom she knows nothing. Good manners from you will certainly elicit a more complete response than a threatening or superior attitude.”
― Nancy O'Meara, The Cult around the Corner: A Handbook on Dealing with Other People's Religions

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“She's just one of the plethora of women you rotate through your bed." Lily looked scared out of her mind as the queen changed direction and stalked her. "I will not allow you to besmirch the Esca name with your filthy plot to steal the prince.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: adventure, drama, fiction, genetics, political, sci-fi, science-fiction, supremacist, war

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