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“Until you showed up, I thought we were going to have some fun. Maybe play some games, throw a party, break into a top security building and take selfies? You pick, though I’m leaning toward the latter. I’d love to see the inside of the Pentagon.”
― P.D. Atkerson, Phantom Thief

tags: humor, pentagon, selfies

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#2

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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“Ribbons! Long ones, short ones, ones for every mood." He does a little dance to the singsong rhythm. "Thin ones, thick ones, and ones to tie your shoes!”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Die

tags: a-time-to-die, brothers, dance, dystopian, ribbons, songs

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#4

“Have you no honor to stand for your beliefs?” “Standing for my beliefs isn’t always the same as standing for truth.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

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#5

“She was fire and life.

She was awe and starlight.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

tags: awe, femininity, feminism, fire, life, starlight, woman

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#6

“We need to fight for truth. Your beliefs can be misguided.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

tags: truth

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#7

“But rest assured I'll win. Because I'm going to kill you...
... with kindness.
And it's going to feel really weird for both of us.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

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#8

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#9

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#10

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: expect, expectations, hope, love, wish

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#11

“Are you alright?” Ella asked.
“Yeah, I guess my feet didn’t get the memo that I was planning on using them today,” Hunter huffed. “I could have sworn that I told them that this morning.”
― P.D. Atkerson, They Call Her Ella

tags: humor

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#12

“Are you still under the moronic illusion that I’m just a kid?”
“No, you’re 62 inches of pure chaos.”
― P.D. Atkerson, T.H.E.Y.

tags: humor

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#13

“You don’t know anything about the world I come from. You…” He squeezed his eyes shut. “This… this is why I can’t stay. We’re from two different worlds, and I’ll never be able to have a normal life.”
― P.D. Atkerson, Deadlock

tags: alone, out-of-place

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#14

“So... do you cause trouble, or is it just drawn to you?” Aidan asked, turning to face Max for the first time since he'd arrived.
Max was about to respond, but instead he grimaced and rubbed his head as his headache grew a little worse.”
― P.D. Atkerson, Testing of the Stars

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#15

“We laugh at honor, and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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#16

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

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#17

“Thanks…” Lever scowled at the Girl Scout. “I think.”
Derek just snorted. “Wow… Even a little girl thinks you need something sweet to sweeten you up.”
“They’re cookies, not a miracle in a box. Now… I do believe we were leaving before you got distracted by the little drug dealers selling their boxes of legal crack.”
― P.D. Atkerson, Smoke Screen

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#18

“If you two are done taunting each other,” Agent Bates said, “we do have a mission to discuss, and I would appreciate it if you were both at least pretending to pay attention.”
“Pretending to pay attention is my specialty.”
― P.D. Atkerson, Smoke Screen

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#19

“The problem with wearing a dress is that it clashes with a sword.”
― Chuck Black, Kingdom's Hope

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#20

“Can you honestly look me in the eye and say I’m just a kid? I think you might know better than most that age isn’t always about how long you’ve been on this earth. Sometimes an old soul can be trapped inside a kids body. So don’t be fooled by what I look like, I can take care of myself.”
― P.D. Atkerson, Minor Detail

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#21

“What terrible splashing!’ the elephant frowned.
‘I can’t let my very small persons get drowned.
I’ve GOT to protect them. I’m bigger than they.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

tags: pro-life, pro-life-quotes, prolife

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#22

“My ears are too beeg for my head. My head ees too beeg for my body. I am not a Siamese cat ... I AM A CHIHUAHUA!"
-- Skippyjon Jones (In his very best Spanish accent)”
― Judy Schachner

tags: chihuahua, childrens-book, humor, siamese-cat, spanish

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#23

“I jokingly covered my ears and went on, "There's a lobster on my ceiling and I keep having nightmares..."
"You what?!" Dad said.
Nigel waved him off and quickly continued in a lilting sing-song, "The coin machines are broken and toys are all for free because the people don't follow any rules.”
― Kassie Angle, Stop the Rain: Never Leave a Fallen Comrade

tags: humor

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“He smiled. "You were still the one who said it. And you were right about something else too--God does give us more than we can handle," and in unintentional unison he and I finished, "on purpose.”
― Kassie Angle, O to be Like Thee: How Deep Love Runs

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“I jokingly covered my ears and went on, "There's a lobster on my ceiling and I keep having nightmares..."
"You what?!" Dad said.
Nigel waved him off and quickly continued in a lilting sing-song, "The coin machines are broken and toys are all for free because the people don't follow the rules.”
― Kassie Angle, Stop the Rain: Never Leave a Fallen Comrade

tags: humor

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#26

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

tags: faith, future, god, trust

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#27

“worry does no good. It saps your strength and joy. Instead pray.”
― Julie Klassen, The Bridge to Belle Island

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#28

“If someone left Redwyn alone for half a day, the toddler would bring down the palace. How, Calvin did not know, but it would happen. Redwyn possessed a capacity for mischief and trouble that far exceeded her parents’.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Crown

tags: christian, christian-fantasy, faith, family

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#29

“Oh no, Jilly, not you, too. Please, you can’t possibly be old enough to be interested in boys!”
― Livy Jarmusch, The Coronation

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#30

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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