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Raven’s Quotes

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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“My friend and business partner, Gerald Peyton was 12 minutes late to the funeral. I’d reminded him it started at 2 p.m. “Yeah, yeah, Frank,” he said. “I’ll be there. Just be sure you make it.” Well, here I sat on my thumbs, and he was the no-show. He stopped at a bar and got sloshed, I thought.”
― Ed Lynskey, Death Car

tags: detective-fiction, hardboiled, mystery, noir, private-eye, romance, suspense, thriller

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“I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.”
― Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho

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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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“I tell them that in Finland the first thing men coming back from the front wanted was sex; only after that did they take their skis off.”
― Johanna Sinisalo, Linnunaivot

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The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group — 32829 members — last activity 2 hours, 30 min ago
“It was a dark and stormy night. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled across the sky. Rain spattered a mysterious, hooded stranger who peered over the ...more

The GoodBook Club — 2093 members — last activity Dec 09, 2021 02:59AM
Hello everyone, So we at Penguin Random House Canada have a conundrum. We're maxed out a 5000 friends and can't add anymore faces to our GoodReads f ...more

What Shall I Read? — 142 members — last activity Jul 04, 2014 01:54PM
A GoodReads group for Transworld Publishers - a division of the Random House Group in the UK, where we'll be hosting a monthly book group with giveawa ...more