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    “That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: misery-loves-company, reflection
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    Harold Phifer
    “I was just stunned; Aunt Kathy had actually moved on to another dimension! It finally happened! That lady was damn near invincible! She had survived assaults, coronaries, fevers, famines, flus, floods, plagues, pandemics, strokes, andglobal warming for almost 100 years. I’m willing to bet she outlived the Ice Age, but there’s no way to confirm it. If anyone told the devil “You’re a Lie,” it was Aunt Kathy. She just had a way of coming back and back like a sequel to a never-ending horror story. Whenever she fell ill, she reappeared as a new being more hostile than the previous entity.”
    ― Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift
    tags: and-surprises, bullying, explores-family-dynamics
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    “I knew from the Count of Monte Cristo that prisoners’ minds could deteriorate. Years of confinement could send a man insane.”
    ― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre
    tags: conflict, courage, covert-action, intense-drama, military-thriller, morally-complex, psychological-thriller, resilience, tactical, urban-setting
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    Lotchie Burton
    “Everything about him screamed in warning, “Caution: dangerous terrain ahead.” A warning that both intrigued and provoked her proceed-at-your-own-risk nature.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire
    tags: action, adventure, drama, excitement, exciting, fiction, friendship, intrigue, kidnap, thrilling
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    Sara Pascoe
    “When I'm hung-over I try to imagine being old and look- ing back fondly on now, on this bit I'm currently living, and how in retrospect it might seem adventurous. In the future when I only ever sit in a chair because I'm too gnarled for pleasure or movement I'll remember when I stayed out all night and had life-changing conversations and walked all the way home because I lost my phone.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “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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    Tom Hillman
    “Various large trees— willowy peppers and especially the pines—seem to be reaching down to hold your hand.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: descriptive, fiction, humour, insightful, realistic, refreshing, relateable, soul-healing, spiritual, thought-provoking
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    Margarita Barresi
    “Marco’s heart swelled with pride at his culture. Maybe it was the coquito, but his eyes teared at this beautiful Reyes celebration, heavenly food, lush green mountains, clean air, and his family’s delighted faces. He felt sorry for the stiff people at the Casino de Puerto Rico, pretending to be jíbaros and eating food half as delicious as this. Actually, no. He didn’t feel sorry for them. It was precisely what they deserved.”
    ― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage
    tags: alienation, artistic-sacrifice, compelling, cultural-authenticity, feminist-fiction, freedom, multi-generational, political-landscape, rural-beauty, u-s-colonial-period
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    C. Toni Graham
    “Only you can charter the course of your destiny.”
    ― C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals
    tags: adventure, engaging, exciting, fantasy, life, suspense, teen, ya, ya-lit, young-adult
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    Esther Forbes
    “If you can't do, you'd best shut up about it.”
    ― Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
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    Sharon Creech
    “That night I kept thinking about Pandora's box. I wondered why someone would put a good thing as Hope in a box with sickness and kidnapping and murder. It was fortunate that it was there, though. If not, people would have the birds of sadness nesting in their hair all the time, because of nuclear war and the greenhouse effect and bombs and stabbings and lunatics.
    There must have been another box with all the good things in it, like sunshine and love and trees and all that. Who had the good fortune to open that one, and was there one bad thing down there in the bottom of the good box? Maybe it was Worry. Even when everything seems fine and good, I worry that something will go wrong and change everything.”
    ― Sharon Creech
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    Philip Pullman
    “The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
    tags: beautiful-imagery, description, sky, sunset
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    Cassandra Clare
    “So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.'
    'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: clockwork-angel, humour, nathaniel-gray, will-herondale, wit
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    Naomi Klein
    “We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?”
    ― Naomi Klein
    tags: branding, youth
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  • #15
    “treasure up these words in thy heart. Be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God and I will encircle thee in the arms of my love.”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
    tags: inspirational, lds, religious, uplifting
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