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#1

“I understand your position, Dave. It’s a big story, and you worked hard to get it. But if you don’t drop me at the Europa, I’ll blow your head off. Imagine how big that story would be.
There’s no need for these histrionics. We’ll go to the Holiday Inn. You can rest, shower, debrief. You’ll be among friends.
Last chance, Dave. You can be the hero or the headline. Your call.
Let’s talk it out.
No. You talk too much.
He started a new line of argument, but before the words passed his lips his brains passed them on the way out. A dirty reddish slime painted the windshield; it covered the dashboard and console. It poured and dripped from the ceiling to the seat. The driver was covered on one side of his head and body. The mess made the crowded taxi undrivable.
-Also, someone crapped their pants.”
― John Payton Foden, Magenta

tags: action, balkan, bosnia, deceptions, drama, ethnic-groups, fast-paced, fragile, page-turner, war

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#2

“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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#3

“People who see themselves as “good” are much more likely to do “evil” things. This is because believing you are the “good guy” allows you to define your actions as good because you are the one doing them. This is why many successful cultures frame humans as intrinsically wretched. It can seem harsh to raise a child to believe deeply in their own wretchedness, but doing so helps them remember to always second-guess themselves by remembering their lesser, selfishly motivated instincts. Instincts that run counter to your morality and values have every bit as much access to your intelligence as “the better angels” of your consciousness and will use your own knowledge and wit to justify their whims. You can’t outreason your worst impulses without stacking the deck in your favor. Coming from a culture that anticipates bad impulses and steels you against them can do that. That said, cultures will no doubt develop different, less harsh mechanisms for achieving the same outcome.”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

tags: cultural-reactor, historically, humans, intergrational, morality, networks, non-cultivated-society, preserve, serving-society, though-provoking

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#4

“No matter the vastness of it all, the most ordinary life is still the greatest thing out there and therefore, no matter the circumstances, it’s all worth living. ”
― Daniel Cuervonegro, Sins of the Maker

tags: chaos, conflict, destiny, end-of-the-world, epic, fantasy, magical, mysterious, survival, truths

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#5

“And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

tags: flies

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#6

“Forget what anyone expects: the only person I have to truly worry about is me.”
― Angie Thomas, Blackout

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#7

“Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

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#8

“Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#9

“Dad still believes that everything will always work out. I believe that nothing ever happens like you think it will. But both of us know that real life is always a million times better than anything you can imagine.”
― Gary Paulsen, Field Trip

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#10

“Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

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#11

“Tonight must be our secret,“ she said to him. “Swear it.”
― Beverly Magid, Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle

tags: drama, fiction, hatred, historical-fiction, history, love, military, russia, struggle, violence

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#12

“It’s time for us to wake up, smell the brownies, smell the coffee, and open our spiritual eyes to see in the spirit how many monitoring systems and equipment that the kingdom of darkness is monitoring you with, day in and day out.”
― John Ramirez, Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms

tags: blessed, christian, enemy, god-given, greatness, honour, knowledge, satan, transformation, world

16 likes

#13

“Without active listening, you can not adequately contribute to civil discourse.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

tags: civil-disclosure, compassion, connection, conversions, divides, improvement, inspiring, practical-tools, respectful, social-skills

85 likes

#14

“It’s a humbling realization that sometimes what we think we want may not align with what God knows we truly need.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: eye-opening, good-health, health, inspiring, mental-health, physical-ailments, post-transplant, spiritual-health, transformation, transition

86 likes

#15

“Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.”
― Shannon Hale

tags: books, genre, young_adult

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#16

“...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment..”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

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#17

“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

tags: corruption, oppression

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#18

“O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: death, kiss, love

356 likes

#19

“The bell announced that there was food on the table and a women in the kitchen.”
― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon

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#20

“GLOBAL TEMPERATURES HAVE LOWERED BY ONE DEGREE. GLOBEWIDE NATURAL INGREDIENT SHORTAGE IN EFFECT AS OF THIS MESSAGE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

tags: absurd, conflicting-desires, desire, disorientation, existential-despair, exploring, freedom, self-doubt, unease, vivid

144 likes

#21

“Whenever my heart burns with happy sorrow over missing Her, I must visit the rooftop mostly every few days.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: happysorrow, longingheart, rooftopmeditation

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#22

“Valerie watched him pull away before turning to go inside. Her feelings
were a painful contradiction. On the one hand, she was deathly afraid
of a man whom she was so attracted to as to barely be able to maintain
control when she was around him, on the other hand, that very attraction
and loss of control signaled what she had longed for her whole life,
someone she could fall irretrievably in love with. She was delicately balanced
on the tightrope of some of her most basic personality traits and
her deepest desires. It was a precarious trap for her, and one she wasn’t
going to be able to easily resolve. Unfortunately, the result for Jeremy
was a seesaw of her reactions to him.
What the hell am I thinking, she asked herself as she slowly closed her
apartment door. For now, her fears were winning the battle against her
heart.”
― Jody Summers, The Mayan Legacy

tags: compelling, death, destruction, good-vs-evil, humanity, obstacles, pain, science-fiction-adventures, texas-hill, time-running-out

45 likes

#23

“When the hatred stops will the love begin? When there is no more greed will there then be peace?”
― Sherman Kennon, My Thoughts

tags: inspirational, love, love-quotes, peace, peace-quote, poet, poetry, poetry-quote

108 likes

#24

“Was there something … something evil …getting at Hugo? This bizarre and unwelcome thought surfaced in his mind. Were demons and evil spirits only to be found in the bible stories, or maybe this was some sort of challenge to him to deal with without help from anyone, least of all from the One who he constantly questioned and tried to understand …”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

tags: alone, danger, emotions, exorcism, fear, ghost, haunted, hostile, lies, manor-house

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#25

“I’m so glad you’re okay,” she said, hugging him closely. She knew better than to ask for details. He almost never talked about the difficult parts of his police work. He said that he didn’t want to bring that home with him. ”
― Mike Martin, Too Close For Comfort

tags: dead-body, deceit, fight, gold-heist, intrigue, lies, murder, power, smudging, suspense

119 likes

#26

“Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

tags: angel-clare, displacement, experience, importance, life

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#27

“It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

tags: addiction, withdrawal

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#28

“If Light Is In Your Heart
You Will Find Your Way Home.”
― Rumi

tags: heart, home

179 likes

#29

“If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.”
― Douglas Adams

tags: relativity

120 likes