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#1

“Dad, I need to talk to you about something that’s been bothering me for a long time. Remember when you and mom used to have fights and she would leave? I wanted her to stay and when I knew she wasn’t, I wanted to go with her. But, she would say, ‘stay with your father, you’re a boy.’ It’s a feeling of abandonment that I’ve never been able to shake. I had the same feeling when Sarah left me.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

tags: crime-fiction, murder-mystery, thriller

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#2

“I admire the Queen greatly,” Casanova confided in me. “She can tie a man up by his thumbs, discuss philosophy with Diderot and Voltaire, and plot and scheme like a Dutch diplomat. She has voracious appetites, uses exquisite French scents, is kind to animals, fences like a Hungarian hussar, recreates herself on a white silk swing in a room full of mirrors, and gives afternoon tea parties for society ladies. Useful horsewoman, too.”
― Harry F. MacDonald, Casanova and the Devil's Doorbell

tags: eighteenth-century-history, european-history, fiction-novel, politically-incorrect, witty

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#3

“I look up at the sky again and whisper, ‘I will live for you.”
― Emma Thomas, Live for Me

tags: fiction, life-struggles, living, mental-illness, stigma, young-adult-romance

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#4

“Leadership begins and ends with relationships”
― Richard Polak, Work Smart Now: How to Jump Start Productivity, Empower Employees, and Achieve More

tags: business-success, inspirational, self-improvement, work-ethic

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#5

“Hard port!” She heard a man say from the backseat, of all places. Remy gasped, her startled eyes looked in the rearview mirror. Seeing a bearded man, she screamed, losing total control of the wheel. The other car came up fast and slammed into her right side, sending her into an uncontrolled spin. Her back pressed into the seat as the impact sent her head connecting with the driver’s window. Remy thought she saw a white hand reaching for her, and then she didn’t see anything at all.”
― Michael Phillip Cash, The After House

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#6

“They're both mad, I tell you, the two of them.
One's just shown it, the other's been that way since she was born.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

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#7

“Meg, I give you your faults."

"My faults!" Meg cried.

"Your faults."

"But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!"

"Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

tags: faults

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#8

“She reached up and lay her hand on my cheek. "You have the sweetest face," she said, looking at me dreamily. "It's like the perfect kitchen."
I fought not to smile. This was the delirium. She'd fade in and out of it before the profound exhaustion dragged her down into unconsciousness. If you see someone spouting nonsense to themselves in an alleyway in Tarbean, odds are they're not actually crazy, just a sweet-eater deranged by too much denner. "A kitchen?"
"Yes," she said. "Everything matches and the sugar bowl is right where it should be.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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#9

“I close his fingers around the gift. “I threw away your
bottle cap, because it killed me to look at. But I never could
throw away this. I’ve been waiting to give it to you for two
and a half years.”
“I don’t know what to say,” he whispers.
“I’m almost full,” I say. “Thank you for waiting for me, too.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

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#10

“We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

tags: children, forlorn, lost, old, soldiers, sorrow, war

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#11

“The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#12

“No need to be afraid. I’m just a Holon.”
“Huh?”
“A Holon. What are you?”
“You mean who am I?” I correct him.
“No, what are you?”
“I’m not a what. I’m a who.”
“How can you be a who if you’re not a what?”
“What?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

tags: alien, brain, middle-grade, science, what, what-are-you, who, who-are-you

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#13

“I dunno…maybe everyone has to feel guilty. Everyone! Forever!”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus

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#14

“Gli eventi gravi, fasti o nefasti che siano, non cambiano la natura dicun uomo ma permettono di definirla meglio, così come un colpo di vento, spazzando all'improvviso le foglie morte, rivela la forma di un albero; mettono in luce quello che era rimasto in ombra; danno allo spirito l'inclinazione che da lì in avanti lo caratterizzerà.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite francese

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#15

“The danger of prolonged despair is its tendency to cloud the gift of a new beginning that every tomorrow offers.

--Anissa's Redemption”
― Zack Love

tags: anissa-julien, anissa-s-redemption, book, college-romance, despair, fear, feelings, life, life-lessons, love, lovers, michael, new-adult-contemporary-romance, new-york-city, philosophy, relationships, romance, syria, the-syrian-virgin, truth, war-romance, wisdom, zack-love

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#16

“The end of my nine o’clocks was another anchor in time gone.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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#17

“Argus, you are fallen, and the light in all your lamps is utterly put out: one hundred eyes, one darkness all the same!”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

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#18

“God was always there. He sat beside us during the doctors’ consultations, as we waited the long vigils outside the operating room, as we rejoiced in the miracle of a brief recovery, as we agonized when hope ebbed away, and the doctors confessed there was nolonger anything they could do. They were helpless, and we were helpless, and in His way, God, standing by us in our hour of need, God in His infinite wisdom and mercy and loving kindness, God in all His omnipotence, was helpless too.”
― John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud

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#19

“Francie of course became an outsider shunned by all because of her stench. But she had grown accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and being considered different. She did not suffer to much.”
― Betty Smith

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#20

“I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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#21

“He worked, not like a man who works that he may live; but as one who is bent on doing nothing but work; having no regard for himself as a human being but only as a creator; moving about grey and unobtrusive among his fellows like an actor without his make-up, who counts for nothing as soon as he stops representing something else.”
― Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

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#22

“Neville recommends at the end of every day, before you go to sleep, to think through the events of the day. If any events or moments did not go the way you wanted, replay them in your mind in a way that thrills you. As you recreate those events in your mind exactly as you want, you are cleaning up your frequency from the day and you are emitting a new signal and frequency for tomorrow. You have intentionally created new picture for your future. It is never too late to change the pictures.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

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#23

“I’m breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions, because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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#24

“Rachael, I don’t think this is a very good idea.” Adam tried to protest and break away, but it was too late. She had a good hold on him by now, and he was going nowhere.
“Not bad for a little man like you,” she said. “There seems to be something different about you lately.” Rachael smiled.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#25

“Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?” he asked. Yellow hair like hers was rare among the Greeks. Though some people say that Helen of Troy . . .”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: exquisite, governance, historical, history, justice, political-intrigue, realistic, romance, vibrant

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#26

“Der Mensch ist entweder im Stande, rechtswidrig zu handeln oder er ist es nicht, denn dazwischen gibt es nichts Drittes und Mittleres. Durch diese Fähigkeit wird er strafbar, durch seine Eigenschaft der Strafbarkeit wird er Rechtsperson, und als Rechtsperson hat er teil an der überpersönlichen Wohltat des Rechts.”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

tags: jurisprudence, law

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#27

“I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me'.”
― Elizabeth Kostova

tags: history, puzzles, scholars

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#28

“Nell’ascensore che li portava al settimo piano, Lacke si mise a piangere. Non silenziosamente, singhiozzava peggio di un bambino. Quando Larry aprì la porta dell’ascensore e spinse Lacke sul pianerottolo, il singhiozzo aumentò riecheggiando contro le pareti di cemento. Ora, era un urlo di dolore primordiale, smisurato, che riempiva tutti gli appartamenti, scivolando attraverso le buche delle lettere, i buchi delle serrature, trasformando l’intero palazzo in un grande monumento eretto in memoria dell’amore. Larry rabbrividì, non aveva mai sentito niente di simile prima. Non si piangeva così. Non si doveva piangere così. Se si piangeva così si moriva.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

tags: crying, death, love

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#29

“Turn away from the things you don’t love and don’t give them any feeling, because they are fine as they are but they have no place in your life.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Power

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#30

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

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