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#1

“t felt like stepping into a spa, or a dream, or a memory she hadn’t known she missed.”
― D.L. Maddox, THE DOG WALKER: THE PREQUEL

tags: action, fantasy, fast-paced, intense, psychological, scary, supernatural, tense, thriller, uspense

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#3

“You are the Queen. You get to decide what is best for you and this kingdom.”  ”
― Tricia Copeland, To Be a Fae Queen

tags: adventure, enchanting, engaging, fiction, intrigue, magical, occult, supernatural, unpredictable, ya-litterature

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#4

“Callan sucked in a breath. As a sniper, he’d been trained by the Marines to know and recognize moments.

Moments when all the training—his focused mind, muscle memory, weapon knowledge . . .

When all the preparation—target reconnaissance, angle of attack, position scouting . . .

When all the setup—hidden amid the terrain, barrel aimed, trajectory known . . .

When everything came together in one crucial moment—when the sniper squeezed the trigger and took his shot.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

tags: adult-romance, adversity, drama, love, ptsd, relationship, romance, steamy-romcom, suspense

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#7

“If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: androids, artificial-humans, dystopian, exciting, intrigue, invasion, mission, planets, revolution, secrets

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#8

“Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
            Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit

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#9

“Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.”
― Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

tags: african-americans, blacks, racism, slavery, slaves

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#10

“Through the smoke she could feel bodies around her. Hot and faint, she felt for them with her hands. The gunfire came from right outside the door, but when the lattice beam fell from the ceiling, all sounds faded away, all faded away, and there was no more fear. Only regret was left. Regret for Alexander.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

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#11

“Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality

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#12

“I am so accustomed to living on a metaphysical trapeze that I forget that other people tend to enjoy more solid ground”
― Audrey Niffenegger

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#13

“Without work men are utterly undone.”
― Nevil Shute, Ruined City

tags: labor

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#14

“curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally. Mother rarely insisted I do anything. Father”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

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