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    “They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, and so capriciously favored by the sinister flying squads of the NKVD.
    Ironically, the arrest when it came did not shock Batya. He had prepared for it.”
    ― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
    tags: criminals, curiosity, drama, epic, fiction, investigation, soviet, suspense, war, wwii
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    Michael Tobert
    “His world closes in. The sky is endless no longer but pieced into squares of brick and bright cloths hanging down to dry. Underfoot, no longer stone but rubble, earth, the peelings and rotted scraps of the inedible. He smells the smoke of cooking fires, he hears men arguing and babies screaming like seagulls, he sees young women looking shyly down from high windows, exchanging glances. Now, he is no longer the watcher. Watched. Shouts echo in the dark between twisted walls and back alleys. A twisted smile in a doorway. A stranger’s voice. A stranger’s language.”
    ― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel
    tags: family-life, fiction, fiction-novel, herritage, historical, history, insight, love, romance, struggles
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    S.G. Blaise
    “Rhona’s eyes glint with frustration. “I am just splendid, thank you. No need to talk about me as if I am not in the room. Save your pity for someone else.”
    ― S.G. Blaise, Proud Pada
    tags: army, attitude, courage, curiosity, excitement, fast-paced, full-on, gods, gripping, war
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    Max Nowaz
    “Some days are better than others, for human optimism has no limits.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
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    Kyle Keyes
    “Molly is not a Quaker, Jeremy. Quakers don't have tits that big.”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations
    tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure
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    John Bennardo
    “If you didn't already know, game show talent works fewer days a year than almost every profession, except maybe members of Congress.”
    ― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake
    tags: fiction, humorous, humour, literature, modern-fiction, satire, satirical, satirical-fiction, social-media, witty
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    Kirsten Fullmer
    “Heidi's role as grand master was to monitor all the women and to manage their locations and communication. Even though she’d done this many times on multiple missions, her heartbeat still pounded in her ears.”
    ― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street
    tags: cozy-mystery, cozy-romance, small-town-mystery
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    Claudia Clark
    “At one point, approximately halfway through her remarks, Merkel stated in German something about ‘being able to greet the president of the United States of America, Barack Obama,’ and an overly ambitious Obama, who perhaps thought that was his cue, headed toward the podium.  Perhaps catching the president’s movement out of the corner of her eye, Merkel thought quickly, and without even looking up from her notes, she told the excited American president, in English, ‘Not yet, dear Mr. President, dear Barack Obama.’ Obama sheepishly returned to his seat to allow the chancellor to finish her speech.”
    ― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
    tags: american-history, diplomacy, european-history, history, international, literary, politics, speeches, women-in-politics
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    Harvey Havel
    “At first, she bucked like a wild stag beneath me, and she tried to scream, but the pillow did a good job of muffling her voice.  Before long, the bucking stopped, and my wife’s corpse, blue without oxygen, appeared below me like a hideous phantom.”
    ― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
    tags: fantasy, horror, imaginative, literary-fiction, paranormal, politics, sci-fi, science-fiction, slasher
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    Charles Dowding
    “Keep an open mind and try some new methods.”
    ― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
    tags: climate, four-seasons, gardening, harvest, harvesting, healthy-vegetable, plant-guide, seasons, sustainable
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    Karl Braungart
    “ “We think a spy scheme could be brewing with one or more of the Middle East scientists going to Los Alamos.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity
    tags: cia, cold-war, conflicts, government, identity, iraq, jeopardy, military, series, spy
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    “The chandelier suddenly started to sway”
    ― Carolyn Keene, The Hidden Staircase
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    Orson Scott Card
    “I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: books
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    Emem Uko
    “It's the journey that matters, soak it in. Learn lessons out of it. Impact positively so that if you never get to your destination, at least you'd leave a legacy to be remembered.”
    ― Emem Uko
    tags: legacy, life-quotes, remembrance, wise-words
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    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “and the “Devil’s Hornpipe.”
    ― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie
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    Anne Frank
    “Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: anne, believe, frank, good, heart
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    Michael Chabon
    “I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and conventions of the young.”
    ― Michael Chabon, Moonglow
    tags: aging, human-nature, youth
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