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#1

“Lots of things went into creating a monster, but nothing had prepared her for actually being caught by one.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: black-ops, exploits, fury, kidnap, military, mission, murder, sex-trafficking, suspense, violent

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#2

“Improving your tone essentially requires you to work on your communication skills.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

tags: civil-disclosure, divides, houghtful, inspiring, personal, practical-tools, reflections, respectful, social-commentary

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#3

“She peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads, like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the distance.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, drama, fantasy, fiction, iction, paranormal, teen-ya, urban

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#4

“The receiving radio operator immediately said, “Please tell Sunray Delta Six that Sunray Six is being located and informed immediately. Expect his answer very soon!” A short time later, Harry Smith was summoned to the HQ Delta Company radio. He went to it and was told, “Sir, Lieutenant Colonel Townsend is waiting to speak to you.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, educational, history-resource, leaders, political-dictatorship, research, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam

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#5

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance

1306 likes

#6

“#metooasachild”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

tags: metooasachild

939 likes

#7

“The structure was like an aquarium filled with air instead of water, and Dani and Zephyr were the “fish” inside, there for the enjoyment of the Water People, or for whatever other purpose their captors had in mind.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

tags: dystopian, escape, fast-paced, fear, fiction, gripping, mystery, plot-turns, unexpected, unknown

62 likes

#8

“People rarely search for bodies in ceilings…”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

tags: adventure, colonization, cyberpunk, epic, original, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, space, thriller

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#9

“At the end of one of the bookshelves she picked up a very old book. It was truly ancient, and woven into the cover was a motif of joined hands which merged into three words: Aonaibh Ri Chéile. The dedication on the inside cover was simply “To Elbeth with Love.” The author was someone called Angus Ferguson”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

tags: drama, exciting, gunpowder, imagination, intrigue, literary-fiction, love, mysterious, orphan

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#10

“I was able to shake off the near-death experience, and whether it was true or not, I was able to use it as some sort of moral validation as to the importance of my existence, or at least the importance of me completing this job, because clearly God, the universe or whoever understood that there was no other human being alive on this earth stupid enough to take this job.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: doctors, domestic, domestic-thriller, fiction, health, medical, medical-fiction, medical-thriller, patients, ruin

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#11

“and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

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#12

“As people, other people, living in a house who . . . borrow things?"
Mrs. May laid down her work. "What do you think?" she asked.
"I don't know," Kate said, pulling hard at her shoe button. "There can't be. And yet"-she raised her head-"and yet sometimes I think there must be."
"Why do you think there must be?" asked Mrs. May.
"Because of all the things that disappear. Safety pins, for instance. Factories go on making safety pins, and every day people go on buying safety pins and yet, somehow, there never is a safety pin just when you want one. Where are they all? Now, at this minute? Where do they go to? Take needles," she went on. "All the needles my mother ever bought-there must be hundreds-can't just be lying about this house."
"Not lying about the house, no," agreed Mrs. May.
"And all the other things we keep on buying. Again and again and again. Like pencils and match boxes and sealing-wax and hairpins and drawing pins and thimbles-”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers

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#13

“Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?”
― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

tags: bureaucracy, innovation

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#14

“Hun ba for de døde og sendte lykkønskningsbrev til de levende hver gang det var bryllup eller barnedåp - akkurat som engelskmennene i koloniene, som drakk seg fulle i all ensomhet hver gang London feiret dronningens fødselsdag.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

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#15

“Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. I can't be punished any more. I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

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#16

“La lettura è solitudine. Si legge da soli anche quando si è in due.”
― Italo Calvino

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#17

“Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: action, dark, drama, enemies, espionage, fight, literary-fiction, mystery, survival, tense

260 likes

#18

“The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training” to “protect our culture,” while they simultaneously paid $2 million a year for Dr. Porter to destroy it. It was a laughable facade, but instead I wanted to cry.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: action, drama, family-life, fiction, personal-growth, realistic, stress, strife, thriller

102 likes

#19

“But if you flip this around, the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.
Hold my bag while I victory-lap.”
― Sara Pascoe

tags: gender, humour

438 likes

#20

“The evening came to a close and the two women walked hand-in-hand back to the hut, the waves breaking gently on the beach, the stars out up above, a buzz in their heads from the wine and beer. As close to paradise as I could ever imagine, thought Dani.”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain

tags: absorbing, action, drama, fiction, history, lies, literary-fiction, science-fiction, scifi, time-chain

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#21

“Yep. God’s giving me a second chance at motherhood as a
“thank you” for killing a bunch of scumbags. He’s looking down and
thinking, “Well done, Susie. You’ll make a fine mommy.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

tags: fiction-writing, intrigue, suspense-thriller

72 likes

#22

“He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire."
"And you? What are your plans?"
"I have no plans to kill your father.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: action-packed, aliens, compelling, dry, earth, fast-paced, humans, humour, intrigue, mission

386 likes

#23

“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

tags: happiness, story, tell

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#24

“You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort!”
― P.D. Eastman & Roy McKee, Are You My Mother?

232 likes

#25

“You're a total freak. But you're my freak.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

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#26

“Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever; your veins are full of ice water; but mine are boiling, and the sight of such chillness makes them dance.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: coldness, love

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