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    J. Rose Black
    “She made a face at him, and he could picture her, as a child princess—sticking her tongue out at a playmate in her princess castle. ”
    ― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath
    tags: adult-romance, drama, fiction, humour, love, new-adult, ptsd, romance, satire, steamy
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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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    “What’s your version of old-fashioned discipline?”
    “A belt across the back! I felt the belt a few times growing up. Didn’t hurt the way I turned out.”
    ― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings
    tags: angelic-guidance, emotional-abuse, emotional-depth, girl-power, heartbreak-and-healing, life-transformation, light-in-darkness, storytelling, tragedy-to-triumph, truth-telling
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    “I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When did you get in?’ We mainly just talked to get familiar with each other.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: grief, humour, imagination, literary-fiction, love, neighbours, rural-fiction, small-town, small-town-fiction
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    K. Ritz
    “This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, antasy, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery
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    C. Toni Graham
    “Writers have influenced thoughts, principals, viewpoints and experiences throughout history. A talented writer’s pen is anointed with magic!”
    ― C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Dominion of Four
    tags: courage, crossroads, druidic-magic, fate, friendship, mythical-creatures, prophecy, realms, teamwork, war
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  • #7
    “Deliverance is not scary—it is the most beautiful, loving act of Jesus. It is the moment someone finally walks into the freedom that was always meant for them.”
    ― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression
    tags: destiny, focus, god, grow, learn, love, peace, spirit, teaching, views
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    Sara Pascoe
    “Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fiction, historical-fantasy, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal
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    Amos Smith
    “From the perspective of Christianity’s Desert Tradition, prayer is the most vital aspect of faith. Without prayer and experiences of the infinite, Christianity loses its guts.”
    ― Amos Smith, Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers
    tags: ambassadors, blessed, destiny, god-given, good-fight, heaven, prayers, prophetic, spiritual, teachings
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence,
    without you moving, slicing the noon
    like a blue flower, without you walking
    later through the fog and the cobbles,
    without the light you carry in your hand,
    golden, which maybe others will not see,
    which maybe no one knew was growing
    like the red beginnings of a rose.
    In short, without your presence: without your coming
    suddenly, incitingly, to know my life,
    gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind:
    since then I am because you are,
    since then you are, I am, we are,
    and through love I will be, you will be, we will be.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
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    Tim O'Brien
    “Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, or why you're there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity.”
    ― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
    tags: reality, war
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily...”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
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    Oliver Sacks
    “Many patients may confess that they feel “strange” or “confused” during a migraine aura, that they are clumsy in their movements, or that they would not drive at such a time. In short, they may be aware of something the matter in addition to the scintillating scotoma, paraesthesiae, etc., something so unprecedented in their experience, so difficult to describe, that it is often avoided or omitted when speaking of their complaints. Great”
    ― Oliver Sacks, Migraine
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    Jon Scieszka
    “The older you get, the more questions you get asked, and the more weary you become of answering the questions and the more elusive the answers--any answer, every answer--seem. --Maureen O'Toople in the short story "Your Question for Author Here”
    ― Jon Scieszka Katie DiCamillo, Funny Business
    tags: aging
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    Cecelia Ahern
    “Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned.”
    ― Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now
    tags: heartbreak, love
    41 likes



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