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    Yvonne Korshak
    “The water far below was black in the shadow of the ship. A plank creaked. She froze. No noisy jump. It would have to be a dive. Head down into darkness. She’d never dived at night.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: ancient-athens, fiction, golden-age, history, immersive, literature, love, military-campaigns, treacherous
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    Nancy O'Meara
    “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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    Jeffrey S. Stephens
    “If you want to debate the morality of war versus terrorism, let’s start with how these conflicts begin.”
    ― Jeffrey S. Stephens, Enemies Among Us
    tags: action, cia, dramatic, fast-paced, mystery, police, suspense-thriller, terrorism, terrorist, traditional
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    “Completely oblivious to either the angry mob around her or to her own nakedness, the woman walked right up to Roan and, in a voice that was both sultry and fragile said, “I have found her.”
    ― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
    tags: ancient-classical-fiction, conflict, drama, hate, love, red-witch, social-class, trilogy, violence, war
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    Karl Braungart
    “ “We think a spy scheme could be brewing with one or more of the Middle East scientists going to Los Alamos.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity
    tags: cia, cold-war, conflicts, government, identity, iraq, jeopardy, military, series, spy
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    Max Nowaz
    “I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,” laughed Adam. “We won’t have to dispose of the body. I’ll get a pan and brush in a minute and flush him down the toilet.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, magical, realistic, thriller, urban-fantasy
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    Susan Rowland
    “Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman’s silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: fiction-novel, murder, past-experiences, personal-relationships, power, psychological, tense, thriller
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    Paul Cude
    “Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
    ― Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past
    tags: fantasy, fantasy-books, fantasy-books-humour, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-young-adult
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    Herman Melville
    “In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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    Irène Némirovsky
    “I swear here and now never again to take out my bitterness, no matter how justifiable, on a group of people, whatever their race, religion, convictions, prejudices, errors. I feel sorry for these poor children.”
    ― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Francaise
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    Anna Sewell
    “My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my old friends under the apple trees.”
    ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Curse of Lono
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