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    Max Nowaz
    “Get up you lazy bastard. The Governor wants a word with you,” said a guard. 
He opened his eyes and smiled. There was another guard standing near the cell door in 
anticipation of any trouble. The prisoner smiled at him, too. 
Now what can the Governor want from me? He wondered. His dishevelled form seemed 
incapable of coherent thought. “It’s nice of him to remember me,” he said aloud, trying to 
concentrate.
“Surprising he’s got any time for a worthless shit like you,” said the first guard. 
“I once used to be a very important person,” the prisoner said feebly.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: 21st-century, action, drama, intrigue, thriller, thriller-novels-best
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    Kyle Keyes
    “Somehow, creation manages to form without species intervention.”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations
    tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure
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    Eric Carle
    “He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and...

    he was a beautiful butterfly!”
    ― Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “I don't want to feel this way around him. I want things to be normal. I want to be his friend, not another stupid girl holding out for something that will never happen.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
    tags: fantasy, magic, secrets
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    Robert Ludlum
    “They never listened until it was too late, and then only with stern forbearance and strong reminders of what might have been—had things been as they were perceived to be, which they were not.”
    ― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
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    Barry Kirwan
    “A scream pierced the sky, a child’s, so loud he dropped his cup, his right hand ready to reach for a weapon that wasn’t there. A survival reflex from another city, another part of the world. He tried to relax, but the scream had been real. Not like the whining wail he loathed, not even the shocked cry of a kid who’d just hurt himself. This scream had mortal fear in it. After three tours in Afghanistan, he knew the difference.”
    ― Barry Kirwan, When the children come
    tags: action, adventure, suspense-thriller, thriller-novels
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    Jeffrey S. Stephens
    “Treason is a judgment based wholly on perspective.”
    ― Jeffrey S. Stephens, Enemies Among Us
    tags: drama, edgy, fictional, iction, murder, mystery, page-turner, terrorism, terrorist, tragedy
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “He said, “Sir, we are in a very bad position! We have lost many soldiers KIA (Killed in Action) and many more are wounded. Sir, today is the twenty third of March, and I suggest that we get the hell out of the entire Hoa Binh area before we all end up as dead men!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: death, documented, kia, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: adventure, athens, democracy, educational, evolution, fiction, greece, love, love-story, novel
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    Nancy O'Meara
    “The person at the other end is answering questions from a person she has never met and about whom she knows nothing. Good manners from you will certainly elicit a more complete response than a threatening or superior attitude.”
    ― Nancy O'Meara, The Cult around the Corner: A Handbook on Dealing with Other People's Religions
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    Karl Braungart
    “Luma, if you want to escape, I have a choice for you to make.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Triple Deception
    tags: action, crime, dramatic, fiction-novel, murder, mystery, series, terrorist, thrilling
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    Michael Parker
    “Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh had been weaving was beginning to unravel with disastrous and dangerous consequences.”
    ― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity
    tags: action, adventure, exciting, fear, gripping, military, navy, special-ops, thrilling, trauma
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    Robert Ludlum
    “There’s a rift in this country between the people and its leaders. There is corruption at the highest levels of government; it goes beyond mere power politics. The Constitution has been seriously assaulted, our way of life threatened.”
    ― Robert Ludlum, The Chancellor Manuscript
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    Margery Williams Bianco
    “It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
    ― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
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    Henri Charrière
    “It was a knockout blow — a punch so overwhelming that I didn't get back on my feet for fourteen years.”
    ― Henri Charrière, Papillon
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I learned from her that every woman is worried
    about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    tags: beautiful, looks, woman
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    Rohinton Mistry
    “إن التودّد إلى الجنون أمر، ولكن عندما يبدأ الجنون بالتودّد إليك فهو أمر آخر يستدعي الإقلاع عنه”
    ― Rohinton Mistry , A Fine Balance
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    Jerry Spinelli
    “I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.”
    ― Jerry Spinelli
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