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#1

“Mom, please don't use 'the happy voice.' It reminds me of the day Tinkles died."
"Who was Tinkles?" Sue asked around a mouthful of pancake.
"My cat. When I was five, Tinkles died choking on a mouse that was a bit ambitious for a kitten to eat."
"It was terribly traumatic for Aurelia because it was the first time she'd experienced loss."
"What did you do to help her get through it?"
Rosalind smiled at Mother Guardian. "Well, after a good cry, we performed an autopsy."
Aurelia reached for her mother's hand. "I never thanked you for that.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: action-packed, assasination, drama, dystopian, gripping, love, romance, thriller, war

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#2

“Even adults who were stiffened by the starch of their miserable lives, for whom breaking the stony discipline of austere and judgmental intolerance was usually off the table, melted in the magical luminescence and energetic charm of the pre-pubescent Ruka.”
― John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

tags: drug-cartels, drug-trafficking, intrigue, japan, japanese-culture, kenya, mystery-thriller, nigeria, true-crime, uganda

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#3

“If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, detective, fiction, fiction-novel, murder, realistic, thriller

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#4

“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
― Sara Pascoe

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#5

“If only their life could continue as it was it would be enough. It had always been enough for her, but never enough to keep him from righting wrongs of far wider consequences.”
― Leslie K. Simmons, Red Clay, Running Waters

tags: biographical, documentary, fiction, fictional-drama, historical, history, literary, native-american

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#6

“A haunting memory flooded over Ethan when his own little sister had died. He had not thought of her in years! He glanced at the other chairs that sat empty around the table and wondered how different, or better his life would have been if she had lived. He tried to imagine her sitting there, but had trouble conjuring up her face.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: american-historical-romance, emotional, historical-backdrop, human-emotions, love, powerful, resilience, romance, romantic-tension

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#7

“You also would love to hang out with Logan. And don’t even try to deny, you think Logan is super-hot. I know you. You like him, and he likes you. He was insanely worried about you last night. He’s either head over heels for you or he’s your guardian angel. He was insanely worried about you last night. If I didn’t know you had just met, I would swear he was in love with you.” Meredith said in an excited tone.”
― Hope Worthington, Shifting Moon: Shifting Moon Saga, Book 1

tags: adventure, drama, fiction, humour, literature, magic, mystery, paranormal, teen-ya, urban-fantasy

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#8

“With Finn, Vic, and Maeve shooting darts at him, Buster thought better of bellyaching and took off down the street with Finn.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, climatic, dramatic, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, mystery, profound, tense, unpredictable

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#9

“So why the hell am I letting him kiss me? And why the bloody hell am I kissing him back?”
― Becky Wilde, Bratva Connection: Maxim

tags: danger, excitement, fast-paced, fear, fiction-novel, full-on, gripping, mafia, romantic-fiction, sex

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#10

“The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolls and rolls and calls to me. Come in, it says, come in.”
― Sharon Creech, The Wanderer

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#11

“He had secret loves all over town, the kind of curly-haired big-bodied girls who wouldn't have said boo to a loser like him but about whom he could not stop dreaming.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: dream-girl, women

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#12

“Don’t take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

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#13

“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

tags: lie, truth

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#14

“I’m safer than I’ve been in days, surrounded by the people I love most, and yet I’ve never wanted to cry more. For them, I hold back. I curl inward and bleed alone, inside, where no one else can see.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

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#15

“I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives

tags: freedom, independence, jo-march, liberty, singlehood, singleness

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#16

“The owner of the Post Office was called Maurice. A sixtyish-year-old with a large red nose that was pebble-dashed with broken capillaries, and a smooth bald head with a fuzz of grey hair around the side like the tide mark on a dirty bath. He had a gruff manner, distrusting eyes and a cough like kicked gravel.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: descriptive-prose, visual-moments

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#17

“His remains consigned to the elements and wolves, would scattered across the March.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: destruction, fast-paced, gripping, humans, irreversible-damage, literary-fiction, mission, struggles, threat, turmoil

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#18

“This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, antasy, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery

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#19

“Rudy? You can’t take the stairs. We’re having dinner on the 71st floor.”
“It’s okay, Boss. I can walk up.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder in Buckhead

tags: action, crime, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, sleuth, thriller

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#20

“Nights and days came and passed
And summer and winter
and the rain.
And it was good to be a little Island.
A part of the world
and a world of its own
All surrounded by the bright blue sea.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Island

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#21

“Oftentimes it’s easier for lunatics to attract impassioned followers than it is for sensible people to get people to listen to reason. People are often more willing to believe lies than the truth. Lies can be made to sound pleasant. The truth, by its very nature, isn’t always so attractive. “That leaves peaceful people no choice but to fight for their lives or fall to the blades of madmen. In such a situation, there is no middle ground. There is no such thing as compromise between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always defend itself against savagery or else fall to it.”
― Terry Goodkind, The Third Kingdom

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#22

“That Anarchist world, I admit, is our dream; we do believe - well, I, at any rate, believe this present world, this planet, will some day bear a race beyond our most exalted and temerarious dreams, a race begotten of our wills and the substance of our bodies, a race, so I have said it, 'who will stand upon the earth as one stands upon a footstool, and laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars,' but the way to that is through education and discipline and law. Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men.”
― H.G. Wells, New Worlds for Old

tags: anarchism

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#23

“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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#24

“In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

tags: demagoguery, democracy, manipulation, materialism, perspective

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#25

“I am me, a unique individual who aspires to be happier than she already is.”
― L.C. Conn

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