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#1

“Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: life, philosophical, philosophical-musings

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#2

“Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.”
― Ken Kesey

tags: pessimism, realism-truth, reflection

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#3

“Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse

tags: crime, fiction, horror, lgbt

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#4

“There was something deranged and distinctly midwestern about a station that programmed "The Exorcist" three days prior to Christmas.”
― Scott Heim, Mysterious Skin

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#5

“I watched him spread out his arms with a smile before he crashed through the table in a beautiful crescendo, the glass sounding like tinkles from a piano as its shavings glittered across the floor and sliced through his face and body.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

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#6

“Oh, uh-uh," Shaundelle said. "I'm not gonna be no place where no ghost is gonna be knockin' nobody upside the head. I'm outta here. I'm not going to take any chances that some ghost is gonna mess up this pretty face.”
― Deborah Leblanc, Toe to Toe

tags: comedy, dark-humor, love, paranormal, romance, self-discovery, spooky, supernatural, young-adult, young-adult-fiction

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#7

“God knows far more about living a life of joy and blessings than we do.”
― Randy Loubier, Slow Brewing Tea

tags: christianity, gods-power, guidance, healing, love, reflection, religion-and-philoshophy, spirtitual-growth

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#8

“As the native drum kept rhythm with the nighttime symphony of the African bush, the cry of a hyrax (a small, furry animal that sounded a lot scarier than it looked) pierced the night. A hyena howled. A warthog ran through our camp. What was he running from? Sitting in front of my tent, I tried to figure everything out. I wouldn’t have called what I did prayer but maybe wonder.

Night after night, I’d listened to the rush of a river or watched my own personal light show as lightning spider-webbed across the heavens, danced in the distance, and serenaded me with a muffled growl. Until a crash—so loud it seemed to break the sky—caused me to twitch as a shiver ran up my spine.

“You know how it is when you feel someone staring at you from across the room?” I said to Truth. “You turn to meet the gaze. It was like that, but I saw no one. I just felt a comforting presence as we sat together in silence.”

“You think it was God?” she asked.

“Yeah, but I called him Fred. Not so overwhelming, more personal.” ”
― Elizabeth Bristol, Mary Me: One Woman’s Incredible Adventure with God

tags: kindness, love, truth, wisdom

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#9

“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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#10

“Jeff’s office looks like a cross between the overnight camping trip of a preternaturally rambunctious Boy Scout troop and an X-rated pajama party for a sect of animals for which there is no genus. What it smells like is more easily recognizable – dried-out pizza, stale beer and sweat.”
― Joan Gelfand, Extreme

tags: behind-the-scenes, drama, fiction-novel, insight

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#11

“Insist on your cup of stars. Once they have trapped you into being like everyone else, you will never see your cup of stars again.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: self-determination, stars

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#12

“We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

tags: love

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#13

“I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the dresser; the way they said, 'I’m going to pee.' hair ribbons; walking down the boulevard with them at 1:30 in the afternoon, just two people walking together; the long nights of drinking and smoking; talking; the arguments; thinking of suicide; eating together and feeling good; the jokes; the laughter out of nowhere; feeling miracles in the air; being in a parked car together; comparing past loves at 3am; being told you snore; hearing her snore; mothers, daughters, sons, cats, dogs; sometimes death and sometimes divorce; but always carring on, always seeing it through; reading a newspaper alone in a sandwich joint and feeling nausea because she’s now married to a dentist with an I.Q. of 95; racetracks, parks, park picnics; even jails; her dull friends; your dull friends; your drinking, her dancing; your flirting, her flirting; her pills, your fucking on the side and her doing the same; sleeping together”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

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#14

“People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”
― Judith Guest, Ordinary People

tags: depression, emotions, feelings, judith-guest, life, ordinary-people, smile

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#15

“My future was about to happen.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

tags: cinderella, retelling

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#16

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

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#17

“We don’t know yet if this girl is going to have sex tonight or not?”
“She will for sure. I can smell the desire. And it is getting stronger as the time is passing.”
― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

tags: cheating, emotions, erotic-romance, fun, human-experiences, modern, passion, pleasure, respect, sexual-desires

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#18

“ ‘I see you made it Jack,’ he started to say, noticing a silver sphere roll across the loading bay floor. It stopped just short of his shoes before it exploded.”
― Anthony Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

tags: ai-mainframe, destruction, drama, dramatic, earth, fast-paced, human-evolution, machines, science, trilogy

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#19

“He clamped his eyes shut and waited for the pang of something he could no longer name to subside; it plucked at steel threads holding him together and reverberated through his system.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

tags: compelling, drama, friends, friendship, humorous-american-fiction, humorous-fiction, journey, literary, romantic-comedy, steamy-romance

160 likes

#20

“Everything about him screamed in warning, “Caution: dangerous terrain ahead.” A warning that both intrigued and provoked her proceed-at-your-own-risk nature.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: action, adventure, drama, excitement, exciting, fiction, friendship, intrigue, kidnap, thrilling

175 likes

#21

“It is working for God, not a boss. Maybe you will get a raise in consciousness.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: drama, empathy, healing, imagination, imaginery, insight, meditating, meditation, second-person, self-love

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#22

“It doesn’t matter how smart you are or what you know; if you learn to put those two things together, to let your pain drive your talent, you can become the best at anything you do in life.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

tags: encouraging, experiences, hopeful, life, life-skills, motivating, reality, self-healing, wisdom, wise

270 likes

#23

“Some people say
Rhyming is but a sin.
Little sins are fun
So try, before you bin.”
― Max Nowaz, Timbi's Dream

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#24

“It was Sunday evening when it finally stopped raining. He and his dad went into the forest, and it was super wet. There were pools of water everywhere. And sure enough, the stream had jumped its banks. It looked like a torrent because it was running so fast. Joey had never seen the stream like that.”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

tags: eco-friendly-values, environment-and-energy, magical-learning, mycelium, nurturing, plants, positive-parenting, thoughtful-parenting, universal-wisdom, water-wisdom

94 likes

#25

“You ride to battle?" Karede asked.
"I was thinking more of a saunter," Mat said. He shook his head. "I need a feel for what Demandred is doing...I'm going out there, Karede, and putting you fellows between me and the Trollocs sounds delightful. Are you coming?”
― Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light

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#26

“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#27

“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
― Clement Clarke Moore, Twas the Night Before Christmas

tags: christmas-quotes

508 likes

#28

“They're just beginning to open the doors in their minds"
"But once you've been through that door, you can't just keep going through it over and over again...”
― Tom Wolfe

tags: ken-kesey

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