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#1

“You see, there are no pretty pink flowers in the woods at night.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

tags: danger, darkness, doom, evil, fate, flowers, night

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#2

“ In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, fictional, horror, thriller

1358 likes

#3

“Though civil discourse may be especially challenging to facilitate during fractured times, the process itself has stood the test of time for centuries.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

tags: break-down-barriers, empowering, explore, failures, identity, personal-growth, reflection, social-media, societal-expectations, successes

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#4

“And I assure you, I am perfectly sane now. Stable as a workhorse in old Ireland, my friends, with only one goal in life. To do good. Always good. ”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: action, adventure, drama, fiction, humanoid, sci-fi, time, time-travel, travel

55 likes

#5

“God had been orchestrating the events of my life behind the scenes for years, and I had no clue.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: adversity, fulfilling, health, insightful, life, live, personal, purposeful, succeed, transformational

76 likes

#6

“This was a moment Alberon had dreamed of, and he gave no thought to his lost and banished lover, although he did at times wonder about the child. Did he have a bastard son or a daughter? But it really did not matter any more. It was simply the mistake of a love struck youth.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

tags: action, conquest, fast-paced, intrigue, military, mystery, powerful, war, wealth, weapon

52 likes

#7

“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

96 likes

#8

“It was as if we played chess after denying me both bishops and knights.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

369 likes

#9

“Manager Mangione,” Ping said, “algorithmic regulation was to
have been a system of governance where more exact data, collected
from MEG citizens’ minds via neuralinks, would be used to organize
Human life more efficiently as a CORPORATE collective. Except no
one to this point in Human existence has been able to identify the
mind. The CORPORATE can only receive data from the NET on
behaviours which indicate feelings or intentions. I & I cannot . . .”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

tags: adventure, ai, artificial-intelligence, drama, fantasy, fiction, sci-fi, science-fiction, thrilling

38 likes

#10

“Love is the Answer, God is the Cure!”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

tags: inspirational, love, self-help, survivor

618 likes

#11

“The blow was such a stunner that it was thirteen years before I could get back on to my feet again.”
― Henri Charrière, Papillon

12 likes

#12

“You never fail until you quit trying.”
― Tom Sechrist

339 likes

#13

“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

tags: alone

232 likes

#14

“There were spaceships again in that century, and the ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that walked on two legs and sprouted tufts of hair in unlikely anatomical regions. They were a garrulous kind. They belonged to a race quite capable of admiring its own image in a mirror, and equally capable of cutting its own throat before the altar of some tribal god, such as the deity of Daily Shaving. It was a species which often considered itself to be, basically, a race of divinely inspired toolmakers; any intelligent entity from Arcturus would instantly have perceived them to be, basically, a race of impassioned after-dinner speechmakers.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Liebowitz

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#15

“But can I really will anything? At this moment I feel the pleasure of being stone, the sun warms me, the wind makes acceptable this adjustment of my body, I have no intention of ceasing to be a stone. Why? Because I like it. So then I too am slave to a passion, which advises me against wanting freely its opposite. However, willing, I could will. And yet I do not. How much freer am I than a stone?”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

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#16

“What in the name of Llar was that all about?’ Colin asked, his face still drained of colour.
‘I have no bloody idea,’ William said his voice quivering.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

tags: ai-mainframe, drama, dystopian, evolution, fiction, literary-fiction, tags-adventure, thrilling, turmoil

97 likes

#17

“Some days are better than others, for human optimism has no limits.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

446 likes

#18

“Her is closer than ever to the top of Namsan Tower.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: loveinseoul, namsantower, soulfulproximity

105 likes

#19

“The fear that lies at the heart. Only this can keep you from what is yours. Conquer the fear in your heart and you may have anything that you desire.”
― Chuck Dixon, Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1

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#20

“So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition.”
― Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin

tags: contemporary, humanity, humans, life, nature, people, society, world

6 likes

#21

“They are a testament not only to the Afghans' hunger for literacy, but also to their willingness to pour scarce resources into this effort, even during a time of war. I have seen children studying in classrooms set up inside animal sheds, windowless basements, garages, and even an abandoned public toilet. We ourselves have run schools out of refugee tents, shipping containers, and the shells of bombed-out Soviet armored personnel carriers. The thirst for education over there is limitless. The Afghans want their children to go to school because literacy represents what neither we not anyone else has so far managed to offer them: hope, progress, and the possibility of controlling their own destiny.”
― Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

tags: literacy

23 likes

#22

“The desire after hoarding is in its very nature unsatiable. In its qualitative aspect, or formally considered, money has no bounds to its efficacy, i.e., it is the universal representative of material wealth, because it is directly convertible into any other commodity. But, at the same time, every actual sum of money is limited in amount, and, therefore, as a means of purchasing, has only a limited efficacy. This antagonism between the quantitative limits of money and its qualitative boundlessness, continually acts as a spur to the hoarder in his Sisyphus-like labour of accumulating. It is with him as it is with a conqueror who sees in every new country annexed, only a new boundary.”
― Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy

tags: labor, money

8 likes

#23

“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

tags: war

660 likes

#24

“Just a glance at the ragged mess around her fingernails communicated more than the lenghiest essays on the nature of distress.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, One Rainy Day in May

tags: anxiety, bite, danielewski, distress, nails, the-familiar, xanther

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