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#1

“He’d seen combat and had been through two divorces, hadn’t thought of himself as a fearful man. But that was ten minutes ago.”
― William Kely McClung, LOOP

tags: action, action-packed, dystopian, fears, future, gripping, horror, monstrous, survival, technology

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#2

“Colonel Nguyen Van Tan said, “Sauget et Sang, you shall start making amends by confessing your crimes in public here, in this courtroom when the reporters from news services around the world arrive!”

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

tags: bad, dangerous, deeds, divided, division, ethics, good, greed, helpless, humanity

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#3

“It’s a humbling realization that sometimes what we think we want may not align with what God knows we truly need.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: eye-opening, good-health, health, inspiring, mental-health, physical-ailments, post-transplant, spiritual-health, transformation, transition

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#4

“Unconditional Love conquers all!”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

tags: inspirational, love

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#5

“Sally wiped the blood from Anderson’s mouth with her sleeve. She spoke to him, but also loud enough for all to hear. ‘Go find your son, Mr Anderson. This is our war now.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

tags: action, dark, drama, fight-for-your-life, suspense-thriller

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#6

“What’s “ague?”‘ Raya asked.
‘Malaria.’ Oscar said.
‘Oh, great.’
‘Hey, you want plague? They got that too.’ Raya ignored
the cat.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, coming-of-age, coming-of-age-fiction, engaging, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, occult, supernatural, young-adult

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#7

“Charlie said your friend’s disappeared,” chirped Wendy.
“No, he hasn’t.” Adam denied it. “He’s in the house. Now, look, what’s all this you’ve been telling them?”
“Nothing, I haven’t told them anything.” Charlie looked drunk.
“He said you’ve turned your friend into a crayfish,” insisted Wendy.
“He’s always making little jokes like that, and you fell for it. How am I supposed to do that, for heaven’s sake?” Adam was angry.
“With your little book you found. What’s that under your arm?”
― 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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#8

“The Elder of Ewart spoke out. “Your words are powerful, Ala Moire, yet they will not suffice. The Dewar commands 50,000 troops in Erbea. We are unskilled in war. We have no hope of defeating or even slowing down this invasion. All we can do is hope to treat with them and negotiate some settlement. If this means we bow our heads, so be it. I will not call simple allegiance to a foreign king slavery. Unless the Dewar wants to rape our land, he can have my fealty.”
― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#9

“Before them will lie billions of other galaxies, over distances we can quantify but can't really comprehend.”
― Alan Weisman

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#10

“Can only women have babies?” she asked, warming to her subject. “Yes,” he nodded.”
― Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear

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#11

“Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.”
― Douglas Adams

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#12

“My dear son, It is a puzzle worthy of the best psychiatrist that a human life can be so utterly void and at the same time filled to bursting with”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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#13

“Edward unlocked a drawer of his desk where he kept valuables, opened it, and withdrew the Buck knife Amelia had given him a few days after he’d turned eighteen, about a month before they were to be married. He stared straight ahead, feeling its weight in his hand. He looked down at the knife, opened it, and scraped his finger lightly across the blade. Still sharp. He had used it for only a month, but after Amelia left him at the altar, he stored it away, rarely touching it. Today, however, he wanted to remember the pain.”
― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live

tags: bricklayer, endurance, enigmatic, fear, fiction, loss, puzzle, romance-fiction, suspense, trauma

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#14

“Maybe we can politely ignore each other forever? I think that's the mature thing to do.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo: 'Intense, also BRILLIANT, funny and forensically astute.' Marian Keyes

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#15

“This stated, “Dear Mr. Prime Minister, I am delighted by the decision of your government to provide an infantry battalion for service in South Vietnam at the request of the Government of South Vietnam” The simple fact about this was that no such request was ever received by the Australian Government.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, historical-fiction, history-resource, research, southeast-asia, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam, war-recount

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#16

“Before she climbed into the car, I kindly let her know my back seats were very hard and very cold. Dead Eye Red responded, “Son, when I was your age, I would sit on a seat like this and smoke would appear!”
Somewhat surprised and tickled, I said, “Ma'am, no one will ever look under your car to see if it’s washed.” I really should have known better before I opened my big fat mouth. She said, “Son, no one is looking at my butt, but I wash it anyway!”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

tags: abuse, bullies, hope, manipulation, mental-illness, schizophrenic, struggle, true-story, truth, understanding

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#17

“I don't "lol". I tried it once but it just didn't agree with me.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: cynicism, humour, life, writers-life

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#18

“Soft skin warm against his nose, her pulse beating strong against his cheek, suddenly clear thinking and being the voice of reason were concepts as foreign as a different language.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: attitude, change, confidence, courage, curiosity, explore, fast-paced, fear, full-on, gripping

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#19

“Life is passion. It's fire. Don't let the world extinguish it.”
― J. Rose Black, Chasing Headlines

tags: attitude, change, confidence, courage, curiosity, exciting, exploration, explore, fear, gripping

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#20

“The feeling of that moment defined earthly rapture for James Ed. Before his state of mind could enjoy a full minute of the ultimate feeling, the six-year-old memory intervened. “Goddamn that memory!” he thought.”
― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

tags: civic-duty, classroom, community, history, nostalgia, perseverance, progressive-reform, public-schools, society, students

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#21

“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, humour, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, sorcery

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#22

“Un creier omenesc obișnuit judecă lucrurile numai sub două aspecte diametral opuse: lumină și umbră, dulce și acru, bine și rău. Dar în natură această dualitate nu există. În lume nu există nici bine, nici rău, există doar a fi și a face. Când descriem o acțiune, descriem însăși viața; dacă lipim însă sub această acțiune etichete ca ”depravare” sau ”obscenitate”, intrăm în domeniul prejudecăților subiective.”
― Irving Stone, Lust for Life

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#23

“How long had it been planned for?” “For months,” I answered. “The French government had been working on it intently since April ’42, writing up all the lists of the Jews to arrest. Over six thousand Parisian policemen were commissioned to carry it out. At first, the initial chosen date was July 14. But that’s the national fête here. So it was scheduled a little later.”
― Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key

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#24

“بهم بگو باهوشم.
مهربونم ,
با استعدادم...
بهم بگو بانمکم,
با احساسم,
عاقل خوش تیپم...
بهم بگو یه آدم کامل ام اما...
راستش ام بهم بگو!”
― شل سیلور استاین, زنده باد زن کچل

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#25

“But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#26

“Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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#27

“A man hits me--I hit the man a little harder--then he won't do it again.' Unfortunately he did do it again--a little harder still. The effort to hit harder carried on the action and reaction till society, hitting hardest of all, set up a system of legal punishment, of unlimited severity. It imprisoned, it mutilated, it tortured, it killed; it destroyed whole families, and razed contumelious cities to the ground.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Man-Made World

tags: crime, feminism, gender, gender-critical-feminism, government, law, punishment, radical-feminism, sexism, society

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