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#1

“The day could not come soon enough when these mini-Nazis would be disbanded. When ordinary citizens would begin trusting their own instincts again, instead of blindly following anyone in a uniform telling them what to do.”
― Amy L. Bernstein, The Potrero Complex

tags: brainwashing, exciting, fear, manipulation, mind-control, pandemic, rules, scared, sorrow, violence

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#2

“When we see a mountain too hard to climb, God helps us climb it but in His own time.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

tags: beautiful, cute-illustrations, find-god, helpful, hope, illustrations, light, prayer, self-awareness, self-love

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#3

“Nguyen said, “Ho and I shall return to our positions on the deck, where we are keeping watches of two people on duty for two hours at a time.”

He then continued, he said, “Cung, from what you have told me, you appear to be a loyal citizen of Vietnam. Yet, you are being hunted by the Vietnamese security organisations!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: action, battlefield, brothers, chaos, conflict, corruption, danger, peace, soldier, technical

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#4

“And thank you, Oskars, for the State Department recordings. All of us especially liked the discussion about our espionage tactic regarding the tank transfers out of Georgia into Syria. It was amusing, to say the least.”
― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

tags: conspiracy, dynamic, espionage, identity, military, suspense, suspicion, thriller

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#5

“The big question was, what all was this society up to? They’d certainly been in and out of his office, as well as accidently running into him all around town. Had he inadvertently missed what this group of ladies knew? And worse yet, had he given himself away?”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Problems at the Pub

tags: charming, cozy-mystery, humorous, romantic, secret-society, small-town-mystery, small-town-romance, witty

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#6

“Catching the wrong Fish is unrewarding.”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: action, adventure, crime, drama, exciting, literary-fiction, past, romantic, suspicion

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#7

“It is wise to offer your gratitude when you ask and when you receive.”
― C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals

tags: adventure, engaging, exciting, fantasy, life, suspense, teen, ya, ya-lit, young-adult

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#8

“We know you stood guard duty at the White House, Reuben. We have film of you urinating behind the bushes.”
― Kyle Keyes, Worm Holes

tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure

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#9

“Each day a whole world passes away, largely unappreciated, numbly relegated to obligation, commerce and routine. One day seems as unremarkable as the next. It's only through the inexorable accretion of days, weeks, months and years, that we come to appreciate with heartbreaking clarity how incredibly unique and precious each lost day has been.”
― S.W. Clemens

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#10

“human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions”
― Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

tags: homelands, memory, writers

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#11

“To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.”
― William Gibson

tags: writers, writing

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#12

“But, Captain, you never asked me why I . . . went ’bout as I did.” The old face, crinkled and dented with canals running every which way, pushed and shoved up against itself for a while, till a big old smile busted out from beneath ’em all, and his gray eyes fairly glowed. It was the first time I ever saw him smile free. A true smile. It was like looking at the face of God. And I knowed then, for the first time, that him being the person to lead the colored to freedom weren’t no lunacy. It was something he knowed true inside him. I saw it clear for the first time. I knowed then, too, that he knowed what I was—from the very first.”
― James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

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#13

“لماذا لا يدربون المروحيات على جني العسل من الشمس ؟”
― بابلو نيرودا, The Book of Questions

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#14

“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ”
― Marcel Proust

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#15

“That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

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#17

“Well, now, Mistress No-English," Sarah spat out, "I don't suppose you've seen a new pair of silver shoes." She looked down at the svelte French woman's feet. "Just about your size, I'd judge.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: action, crime-novel, fiction, murder-thriller, organised-crime, political-thriller, sleuth, suspense-thriller, vigilante-justice, women-s-adventure

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#18

“Guests began drifting toward the edge of the lawn.
Jane heard the shift around her as someone whispered,
“Graham’s here.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: Secrets

tags: complexity, dark-humour, emotionally-charged, emotions, heart-wrenching, human-fragility, intrigue, thrilling, unpredictable

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#19

“ 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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#20

“
The she-wolf visibly recoiled. “You speak with the dead? Then you are truly the one spoken of who has come to save us.” She stood immediately and gave a shrill howl to her pack, all the wolves in the glade sitting up with ears pricked. “I give you Two-heads,” called the she-wolf, “the shaman our elders foretold, he comes to save us from the predations of the men from the sky...”
― Graham Pryor, Cerberus

tags: action, drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, general, mystery, past, science

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#21

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller

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#22

“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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#23

“I hate to break it to you, but this is the worst cast of Can’tflyitis I have ever seen.”
― Robert Agnello, The Glimmers Save Christmas

tags: animals, children, children-s-fiction, connections, discovery, fiction, fun, hope, kids, kids-reading

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#24

“There’s no rule book that tells you how to act in every given situation in life, you know? So what I always say is that it’s always better to err on the side of kindness. That’s the secret. If you don’t know what to do, just be kind. You can’t go wrong.”
― R.J. Palacio, The Julian Chapter

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#25

“They look so tired, so hot!” everyone kept saying, but not one of them thought to open their doors, to invite one of these wretches inside, to welcome them into the shady bits of heaven that the refugees could glimpse behind the houses, where wooden benches nestled in arbours amid redcurrant bushes and roses. There were just too many of them. Too many weary, pale faces, dripping with sweat, too many wailing children, too many trembling lips asking, “Do you know where we could get a room? A bed?” … “Would you tell us where we could find a restaurant, please, Madame?” It prevented the townspeople from being charitable. There was nothing human left in this miserable mob; they were like a herd of frightened animals. Their crumpled clothes, crazed faces, hoarse voices, everything about them made them look peculiarly alike, so you couldn't tell them apart.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

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#26

“the general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth; it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

tags: liberty, political-participation

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#27

“Yes, I'd rather be shy than smart; a foolish diffidence constrains my heart. I reach for a star; then, from a morbid dread of ridicule, I pluck a flower instead.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

tags: humor, love, plays, romance, theatre

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#28

“Mr. Sampson, you forget the difference between Plato and Zenocrates.”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

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#29

“We broadcast from coast to coast every utterance of Hitler, but the German people are not permitted to know a word of what Roosevelt speaks.”
― William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

tags: war, war-reporting, world-war-two

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