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#1

“I said, leave her alone!” Her saviour was a slim young man with blonde hair tied back in a pony tail, and even in the gloom his eyes seemed to burn with ice-cold intensity.”
― Robert Reid, The Thief

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#2

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance

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#3

“The structure was like an aquarium filled with air instead of water, and Dani and Zephyr were the “fish” inside, there for the enjoyment of the Water People, or for whatever other purpose their captors had in mind.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

tags: dystopian, escape, fast-paced, fear, fiction, gripping, mystery, plot-turns, unexpected, unknown

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#4

“Pretty isn’t permanent.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

tags: action, crime, drama, exciting, murder-thriller, past, suspicion

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#5

“Lieutenant Linh said, “Thank you for this valuable information, it gives us an opportunity to take counter-measures to nullify the American attack! I have here, over a thousand young and inexperienced soldiers who are a bit fearful of the Americans. Our young soldiers are asking questions like, “Will an old carbine bullet kill a big American?” and “Would a bullet actually kill a big black American?” He went on to say, “I reassure them that their bullets will kill Americans if they strike at the right spot!” Later on, he was to say, “Four days later, the Americans came. We watched with heavy hearts as their helicopters endlessly were landing men.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: bad, ethics, good, sociology, truth, united, unity, unrest, warring, world-war

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#6

“She stared at her console, wanting to punch it. Her dream, running to save her life, to save everything, was all going to come true down on the planet’s surface. And when it did, she knew this time she wasn’t going to wake up.”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

tags: adventure, colonization, cyberpunk, epic, original, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, space, thriller

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#7

“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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#8

“Sometimes,” said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, “dreams are all that separate us from the machines.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

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#9

“A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all."

The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I remember that dinner table with extraordinary vividness even now. My dear wife's sweet anxious face peering at me from under the pink lampshade, the white cloth with it silver and glass table furniture—for in those days even philosophical writers had luxuries—the crimson-purple wine in my glass, are photographically distinct. At the end of it I sat, tempering nuts with a cigarette, regretting Ogilvy's rashness, and denouncing the shortsighted timidity of the Martians.

So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food. "We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear.”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

tags: conflict, dodos, extinction, foreshadowing, overconfidence, shortsightedness

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#10

“It is not proven that Elizabeth's person equilibrium was set off balance by the slant of the office floor, nor could it be proven that it was Elizabeth who pushed the building off its foundations, but it is undeniable that they began to slip at about the same time.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Bird's Nest

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#11

“If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.”
― Nikolas Schreck

tags: left-hand-path, magic, occult, paganism, sex-magick

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#12

“strip a city of its leaders, journalists, and cultural examples and you will control an ignorant and vulnerable population. Do you understand now?”
― Jana Petken, The Vogels: On All Fronts

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#13

“Books are curious things.
When they want to live, they find a way
to become part of the lives
that need them."

From: The Familiar vol. 2: Into the Forest”
― Mark Danielewski

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#14

“She said, “My people of Oxford, you are suffering from the administration of Hugh le Despencer the Elder and his son called Hugh le Despencer the Younger! I have issued warrants for their arrest and bringing to trial for crimes of High Treason against both men and their partner in crime called Edmund Fitzalan! I urge all of you to inform my soldiers of the where-abouts of these men!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

tags: british-history, culture, drama, enlightening, exploration, fiction-writing, historical-biography, lovers, novel, powerful

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#15

“Xanax can be addictive. Opioids can be fatal. There are medications intended for only eight weeks of use, yet people take them for years. And what is all this about?…. Money.”
― Jeffrey S. Stephens, Enemies Among Us

tags: action, crime, dramatic, fiction-novel, gripping, murder, mystery, series, thrilling, violence

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#16

“Actually, we’re with the United States Army stationed in Germany. My friend Paul comes here about every two to three weeks to visit his Dutch girlfriend.”
― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

tags: biotechnology, desire, iran, middle-east, military, nuclear, scientists, suspense, war

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#17

“Asking me to just be myself is like asking a mirror to stop changing every time someone different looks at it.”

Q”
― Frank Lambert, Cult of the Clan

tags: be-yourself-quotes, mirrors

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#18

“- ابحث لمتعة البحث لا لمتعة العثور.
- الباب هو الذي يختار لا المرء.
- لا تحكم على الشجرة بثمرها ولا على المرء بأعماله، فربما صارت إلى الأفضل أو إلى الأسوأ.
- لا شيء يبنى فوق الحجر بل يبنى كل شيء على الرم، بيد أن واجبنا أن نبني وكأن الرمل حجر.
- طوبى لفقير بغير مرارة، وغنيّ بغير كِبر.
- طوبى للشجعان، الذين يقبلون الهزيمة أو التصفيق بالروح نفسها.
- طوبى لمن يحفظون في ذاكرتهم كلمات لفيرجيل أو يسوع، لأنها ستشع نوراً.
- طوبى للمحبوبين، وللأحبة، ولمن بوسعهم التخلي عن الحب.
- طوبى للسعداء.”
― خورخي لويس بورخيس

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#19

“What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

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#20

“They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.”
― Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

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