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#1

“But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, murder, psychological, suspense, thriller

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#2

“At seventeen the young woman had worked out how to improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

tags: action, conquest, drama, greed, gunpowder, mysterious, orphan, truth, war, weapon

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#3

“And what the sharp old medic suggested to the Pentagon sent shivers down their spines and set the alarm bells ringing all the way to the White House”
― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

tags: action-packed, bombs, danger, fast-paced, fiction, kidnapping, pulp-thriller, sea, terrorism, thriller

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#4

“Choose joy.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: community, faith, health, mental-health, physical-ailments, post-transplant, spiritual-health, transition, transplant

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#5

“Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and the contract and the agreement between us and Heaven has been settled and accomplished. It’s time to put the devil to flight and make these demons tremble and pay the price.”
― John Ramirez, Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms

tags: ambassadors, blessed, destiny, enemy, god-given, heaven, honour, prophetic, satan, teachings

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#6

“He could not understand how a person born in the United States who knew the English language and culture and was educated with at least a high school degree failed to provide for his own subsistence without government assistance.”
― Rafael Polo, Growing Up American

tags: biographical, citizenship, cultural, fascinating, heart-break, heritage, immigration, journey, opportunities

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#7

“Leslie called them Judy and Bill, which bothered Jess more than he wanted it to. It was none of his business what Leslie called her parents. But he just couldn’t get used to it.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

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#8

“...in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

tags: inspirational, life

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#9

“We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: four, inspirational, tobias, tris

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#10

“Whisky is liquid sunshine.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: drinks, enjoyment, sunshine, whiskey, whisky

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#11

“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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#12

“He wanted a stiff drink to get through the evening, for he knew they’d be wailing, and her family coming unglued.”
― Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller

tags: action-packed, conspiracies, conspire, domination, drama, fiction, plots, secrets, suspense, treachery

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#13

“As Aristocleia raised her cup to toast Xanthippus, her gown slipped from her shoulders, exquisite as Aphrodite’s, and flowed like the water that slid over her naked breasts when she allowed him to watch her bathe. It was wonderful to possess a gem of a woman. It made a man feel beautiful and godlike himself, briefly.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: 5th-century-bc, action, drama, enchantment, entertaining, fiction, literary-fiction, love, romance

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#14

“Just now he was on a mind-blowing adventure and it was rapidly spiralling out of control, and this is what he needed to concentrate his mind on. How could he squeeze Daley to get the book back; that’s if Daley had it in his possession in the first place? The next few days were going to be crucial.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#15

“When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was a land mine you wanted to go off. You wanted it to blow your whole day. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of books were duds. They had been rusting out of everyone’s way for so long that they no longer worked. There was no way to distinguish the duds from the live mines except to throw yourself at them headlong, one by one.”
― Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

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#16

“Faint heart ne’er won a lady fair.”
― Jeffrey Archer, Mightier than the Sword

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#17

“Emotions are useless during business hours...”
― Dashiell Hammett, Zigzags of Treachery - a Continental Op Short Story

tags: trust

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#18

“You may truly love your child, but unless she feels it—she will not feel loved.”
― Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages of Children

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#19

“Seeing the pictures every evening while finishing the New York Times and waiting for dinner was his joy. Francine was unaware of his pleasure. He could not reveal these feelings to the children or Francine. Silly. A father loves his children but can’t speak of it for fear of being made trivial.”
― Vincent Panettiere, Shared Sorrows

tags: drama, fiction, fiction-novel, guilt, love, mystery-novel, redemption, romance, sorrow, suffering

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#20

“How do you know, when you think blue — when you say blue — that you are talking about the same blue as anyone else?

You cannot get a grip on blue.

Blue is the sky, the sea, a god’s eye, a devil’s tail, a birth, a strangulation, a virgin’s cloak, a monkey’s ass. It’s a butterfly, a bird, a spicy joke, the saddest song, the brightest day.

Blue is sly, slick, it slides into the room sideways, a slippery trickster.

This is a story about the color blue, and like blue, there’s nothing true about it. Blue is beauty, not truth. ‘True blue’ is a ruse, a rhyme; it’s there, then it’s not. Blue is a deeply sneaky color.”
― Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

tags: blue, color

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