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#1

“Enraged, Marco paced back and forth, gripping the newspaper in his fist. What do these animals hope to accomplish with senseless violence? We have enough suffering on this island. Do we have to kill each other, too?”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: class-disparity, cultural-fiction, feminism-in-history, inner-turmoil, lush, perseverance, political-struggle, real-estate, social-mobility, thought-provoking

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#2

“Writers have influenced thoughts, principals, viewpoints and experiences throughout history. A talented writer’s pen is anointed with magic!”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: attitude, choice, education, goodness, inspiration, inspiring, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting

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#3

“Satan’s breath be damned, the nasty beast is still in there.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: bloodshed, destruction, gripping, hope, intriguing, knight, mission, space, time-travel, turmoil

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#4

“Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, engaging, fiction, literature, new-adult, romance, ya, ya-litterature

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#5

“Christ, I feel like a naughty schoolboy again,” said Alec as they walked into King’s Bench Walk. “We have just had a dressing-down by the headmaster. Strider could easily be a man handy with a cane.”
“That man Strider is a crook,” said Bing-Wallace. “His utterances are like the product of a performance of Joseph Pujol … Le Pétomane!”
“Who is Joseph Pujol?”
“He is a well-known French flatulist performer.”
“What?” Alec stopped dead,
“A fartist, dear boy, a performer of farts.” Bing-Wallace began to giggle, as did Alec.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

tags: atmospheric, complex-friendships, forbidden-romance, historical-drama, intense-dialogue, logical-deductions, passionate-encounters, post-war-healing, uncovering-lies, whodunit

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#6

“I, you, he, she, we
In the garden of mystic lovers,
these are not true distinctions.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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#7

“But the sound frightened Isaac. The thudding, he knew, was caused by great deep-ocean swells falling upon the beach. Most days the Gulf was as placid as a big lake, with surf that did not crash but rather wore itself away on the sand. The first swells had arrived Friday. Now the booming was louder and heavier, each concussion more profound.”
― Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

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#8

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

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#9

“A crude Darwinism? A sadistic fancy? An irresponsible egoism? A megalomania? It was all of these in part. But it was something more. For the mind and the passion of Hitler—all the aberrations that possessed his feverish brain—had roots that lay deep in German experience and thought. Nazism and the Third Reich, in fact, were but a logical continuation of German history.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

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#10

“Old women who live long enough mainly count the bodies, whether we want to or not.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Shadow Land

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#11

“They say that life is an accident
caused by sexual desire,
that the universe has no moral
order, no truth, no God.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

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class-disparity
cultural-fiction
feminism-in-history
inner-turmoil
lush
perseverance
political-struggle
real-estate
social-mobility
thought-provoking
attitude
choice
education
goodness
inspiration
inspiring
life
motivation
nonfiction
uplifting
bloodshed
destruction
gripping
hope
intriguing
knight
mission
space
time-travel
turmoil
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fiction
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new-adult
romance
ya
ya-litterature
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complex-friendships
forbidden-romance
historical-drama
intense-dialogue
logical-deductions
passionate-encounters
post-war-healing
uncovering-lies
whodunit
happiness
pain
peace
scar
sweetness