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    Graham Pryor
    “He craned his neck and sniffed at the puffball. “It is a dog,” he confirmed. “Hey! Come on, time to go,” he barked at the animal, foraging in its woolly thicket of fur and finding a leg to pull.
    “How dare you!” squealed a thin voice. “How dare you insult the great, the magnificent, the incomparable Pom.”
    ― Graham Pryor, Cerberus
    tags: dystopian, fiction, fight, gripping, literary-fiction, love, mystery, sci-fi-romance, war
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    Susan Rowland
    “   In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, fictional, horror, thriller
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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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  • #4
    “I had a little help from my Glimmers.”
    ― Robert Agnello, The Glimmers Save Christmas
    tags: animals, children-books, faith, fiction, fiction-books, friendship, heart-warming, hope, love, pets
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    Theasa Tuohy
    “Mary moved down to join the gathered actors, but little was said beyond questioning whispers. This was, after all, a morgue.”
    ― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth
    tags: drama, emotional, fantasy, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, supernatural-thriller, thriller
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    Don Hynes
    “I climb the vine-covered walls
    using stillness as a braided rope,
    and drop like a cat
    into the garden of the eternal.”
    ― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
    tags: chances, change, compassion, completion, dig-deep, dreamer, explore, joy, respect, strength
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Death rides on all of our shoulders from the day we are born.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow
    tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel
    383 likes

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  • #8
    “Routine had become rhythm. Rhythm had become identity.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel
    tags: action, drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction-novel, intense, psychological, scary, supernatural-thriller, suspense
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    Lucian Bane
    “Why not use some of those amazing powers of yours to give the poor woman a little satisfaction?”
    ― Lucian Bane, Hungry Angel
    tags: favorite, humor
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    “When you are an addict and you get caught, you always seem to be at your lowest point.”
    ― Andrew Mann, Such Unfortunates
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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon
    tags: forgiveness
    60 likes

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    Peter B. Forster
    “Yesterday was surreal. At times K was almost back to herself…funny…interested and relatively mobile. She was tactile and we kissed…she whispered naughty comments into my ear…achingly beautiful…I love her so much”
    ― Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
    tags: life, memoir, truth
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    Walter Scott
    “One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.”
    ― Sir Walter Scott, Tales of My Landlord. Incl: The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality, The Heart of Midlothian, The Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose, Count Robert of Paris & Castle Dangerous.
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    George Eliot
    “Our guides, we pretend, must be sinless: as if those were not often the best teachers who only yesterday got corrected for their mistakes.”
    ― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
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