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    “None of the other kids my age has to do all the grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, and bill paying. It’s just not fair that I have to be an adult when I’m still a kid.”
    ― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community
    tags: book-club-pick, childhood, coming-of-age, emotional-truth, family, heartfelt-reads, historical-fiction, resilience
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    Anastasia Pash
    “A base wardrobe is an ensemble of elegantly simple, neutral-hued pieces free of intricate cuts, lavish embellishments, or overpowering prints.”
    ― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules
    tags: capsule-wardrobe, classic-style, minimalist-style, neutral-palette, packing-smarter, timeless-fashion, wardrobe-basics
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    Max Nowaz
    “Where’s everybody? I thought you had started production.”
“They’ve got a day off, but don’t worry you’ll see the machinery is here.”
But Brown was worried. As they entered the canteen, the lights came on
automatically. There was nobody there.
“What’s going…...” but he never finished the sentence. Brown felt a sharp pain on the
side of his head and everything went black.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: action, action-thriller-fiction, drama, fiction, intrigue, mystery, suspense, thriller
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    George Critchlow
    “As a child, Michael never once heard anyone tell him “I love you.”
    ― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege
    tags: childhood-trauma, compassion, emotional-truth, healing, heart-tug, memoir, must-read, nonfiction, redemption, trauma-recovery
    59 likes

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  • #5
    “People are becoming more and more like pets in digital cages, where the only meaning of their lives is to consume and isolate themselves from others like themselves.”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: digitalage, modernlifecritique, philosophicalfiction, screentime, socialcommentary, thoughtprovokingreads, wakeupcall
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  • #6
    Rich DiSilvio
    “But these men at the top have great power, Marc, power that extends beyond the world of commerce, for they are now buying our heads of state and manipulating policy.”
    ― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age
    tags: american-history-fiction, book-club-reads, corporate-influence, gilded-age, historical-fiction, political-power, social-justice-themes, thought-provoking
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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “She learned that keeping up and working hard paid dividends inside the Pietà, unavailable to women outside it.”
    ― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
    tags: ambition, coming-of-age, growth, historical-fiction, pieta, resilience, self-determination, women-in-history
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “  “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: documented, fiction, historical, recount-of-war, truth, unity, unrest, war, warring, world
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  • #9
    “The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: excuse, life, musings, photos, writers, writers-life
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  • #10
    Susan Rowland
    “Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long in prison.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, trauma, unpredictable
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  • #11
    Walter Isaacson
    “The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious.”
    ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
    tags: stevejobs
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    Robert T. Kiyosaki
    “Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.”
    ― Robert Kiyosaki
    tags: intelligence
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  • #13
    Marjane Satrapi
    “Would you like to become my wife?"
    "Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!”
    ― Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries
    tags: european, love, marriage, proposal
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    Alan Weisman
    “...aunque obviamente los humanos hemos sobrevivido a cualquier virus o meteorito que la naturaleza nos ha lanzado hasta ahora, la tecnología es algo que nosotros nos lanzamos a nosotros mismos por nuestra cuenta y riesgo.”
    ― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
    tags: distopia, extincion, inteli, inteligencia-artificial, tecnologia
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    Jung Chang
    “In each campaign everyone in the category which had been designated as the target by Peking came under some degree of scrutiny, mostly from their workmates and neighbors rather than the police. This was a key invention of Mao’s—to involve the entire population”
    ― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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    Brian Selznick
    “Perhaps the voice was not silent,” said the ferns. “Perhaps it was speaking in the language of dreams and we know more than we thing we know.”
    ― Brian Selznick, Big Tree
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