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#1

“The water far below was black in the shadow of the ship. A plank creaked. She froze. No noisy jump. It would have to be a dive. Head down into darkness. She’d never dived at night.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: ancient-athens, fiction, golden-age, history, immersive, literature, love, military-campaigns, treacherous

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#2

“Where’s my uncle?” she asked.
“I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place before I bought it, then he’s pushing up daisies.”
“But it can’t be, he’s still young.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fiction, intrigue, magic, mystery, survival, thriller, urban-fantasy, witches

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#3

“If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery

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#4

“You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.”
― John Rachel, Blinders Keepers

tags: banana, calculus, chimpanzee, education, golden-rule, lyme-disease

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#5

“I don't want to be caught with my pants down.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action, adventure, death, dystopian, life, literary-fiction, past, sci-fi, travel, witty

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#6

“demands the utmost in wisdom, in attack, in endurance. Violence is simple and easy, it is the sword of the stupid and dull-witted, and it always leaves chaos. To carry on a positive revolution without violence—ah, that is a challenge to intelligence!”
― Pearl S. Buck, Come, My Beloved

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#7

“Laws of silence don't work....
When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant....”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

tags: avoidance, festering, imagination, memory, silence

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#8

“Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting."
"No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't."
"I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

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#9

“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

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#10

“Avarice is not unknown in Italy, and Rinaldo Pazzi had imbibed plenty with his native air. But his natural acquisitiveness and ambition had been whetted in America, where every influence is felt more quickly, including the death of Jehovah and the incumbency of Mammon. When”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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#11

“It is as if when something becomes an issue in the Mirror World, it automatically ceases to matter everywhere else. This has happened on so many issues that I sometimes feel as if we are tethered to each other as reverse marionettes: their arm goes up, ours goes down. We kick, they hug.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World

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