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#1

“You're not a Quaker, Jeremy. I happen to know you put beer on your cornflakes.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure

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#2

“I’ve got my Sig and I’m in a car I swiped,” Bert raged on.” I thought of that much ahead. I don’t miss! It’s like candy, Sammy. His car is candy red. Like Valentine’s Day for me!” I ain’t gonna let a perfect moment pass, Sammy. I’m my own man now in this stuff. I done enough already to earn the respect I don’t get. I’m not stupid, so go to bed.”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: adventure, deceit, drama, exciting, humour, intrigue, past, romance, romantic-literary-fiction, suspicion

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#3

“I also fear an attack directly upon us which shall be considerably aided by the French colonists! I therefore support your plan to act first and stage a preemptive strike against the French by launching “Operation Bright Moon”, which is now the code name for the Japanese coup d ětat which will disarm the Vichy French Forces by or during the 9th of March 1945!”

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

tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war

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#4

“To remain stagnant is a waste since movement is essential to achievement. Those consumed with the barriers of “what if’s” will avoid perceived risks and lean on excuses for inaction. Excuses keep those that are afraid of change from progressing. ”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: achievement, change, consume, empowerment, growth, movemenet, progress, risks

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#5

“After the front legs emerged, what looked like a quartered and bloodied cut of steak followed. This piece of steak had rich and dark fur, wet with the mare’s internal membranes that covered the whole body, but it did not have the look of a horse at all. And yet from the steak’s center came this pulsating heartbeat, as though its pace-setting qualities tried in vain to pull away or escape from its thoroughbred side.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: adult, adventure, complex, drama, griping, intrigue, literary-fiction, perspectives, revenge, thrilling

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#6

“Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on the screen, as Johnny Weissmuller arced through a canopy of trees boldly screaming his signature jungle call.”
― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

tags: action, conflict, death, discovery, documented, drama, loyalty, nazis, politics, unity

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#7

“It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the last few days for Adam. His only worry before finding the book had been how to keep his girlfriend Linda without marrying her in the process. A contest he had lost.”
― 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

“If Adam were honest with himself, which he rarely was, he’d come to terms with the fact that beyond his work and the view, he was floundering a bit. His plan had been to take the insurance money, leave his old life behind, and start completely over somewhere new. A place where memories didn’t lurk around every corner.
He hadn’t figured on the memories coming along with him.”
― Kirsten Fullmer

tags: cozy-mystery, small-town-mystery, small-town-romance, sweet-romance

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#9

“It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.”
― Mark Helprin, In Sunlight and in Shadow

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#10

“whippoorwill”
― Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

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#11

“Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

tags: family, life, life-lessons, love

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#12

“In other words, the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe – as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism

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#13

“This was 1941 and I'd been in prison eleven years. I was thirty-five. I'd spent the best years of my life either in a cell or in a black-hole. I'd only had seven months of total freedom with my Indian tribe. The children my Indian wives must have had by me would be eight years old now. How terrible! How quickly the time had flashed by! But a backward glance showed all these hours and minutes studding my calvary as terribly long, and each one of them hard to bear.”
― Henri Charrière, Papillon

tags: prison-break-escape-freedom

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#14

“Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor

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#15

“The image of the sensual, sleep-laden Naomi made him smile. And wish he’d been lying on the pillow next to her when she’d opened her eyes. Lucky pillow.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: action, adventure, discovery, drama, emotions, fiction, intrigue, mystery, romance

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#16

“He grimaced and went after her. “I’m not a trainer. Just spent a lot of time working out.”

“Misspent youth, clearly.” She held the door open, standing just outside.

“My application to princess school was rejected.” Callan exited the building and fell into step alongside her. “Working out was how I coped.”

Sunlight peeked out from behind striped clouds and lit the early-morning sky. Autumn weather chilled the perspiration on his skin.

“Such a shame.” Meridian glanced up at him out of the corner of her eye.

“What is?”

“That you didn’t go to princess school. Could have learned some manners.” Her blue-green eyes sparked in the sunlight. And her mouth . . . Her lips set in some smart-looking, lopsided grin, with a small dimple.

I should definitely kiss that look off her face.

“Overrated. Inefficient. And I look terrible in a tiara.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

tags: fiction, friendship, humorous-american-fiction, humorous-fiction, literary, love, new-adult, romance, satire, steamy

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#17

“The faint outlines of two packages on his front porch attracted his attention. The size of the packages matched his two packages that contained his Christmas gifts and handwritten cards for his son and daughter. Samantha wouldn’t do that, he thought.”
― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

tags: education-funding, educational-policy, generational-learning, justice, legislative-challenges, moral-responsibility, professional-organizations, resistance, school-reform, societal-change

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#18

“The first impressions with the ashram people are these sparkling interior experiences. The eyeballs can be peepholes into the Milky Way and beyond. You may mumble under your breath that the ashram people could be on something.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: contemplating, deep, descriptive, enteratining-read, humorous, informative, insightful, love, spiritual-journey, unforgettable

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#19

“You can be a natural athlete with terrible work habits, and that ends up wasting your gifts.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

tags: career, encouraging, family, fitness, healing, lesson, motivating, sport, support, time

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#20

“I adore a God who is beyond words yet contained in the word Jesus.”
― Amos Smith, Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

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#21

“Treaties on paper came and went, but a promise sealed in blood was for life.
”
― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

tags: authority, change, fight, life, power, promises, suspense, tense, thriller, war

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#22

“I was just stunned; Aunt Kathy had actually moved on to another dimension! It finally happened! That lady was damn near invincible! She had survived assaults, coronaries, fevers, famines, flus, floods, plagues, pandemics, strokes, andglobal warming for almost 100 years. I’m willing to bet she outlived the Ice Age, but there’s no way to confirm it. If anyone told the devil “You’re a Lie,” it was Aunt Kathy. She just had a way of coming back and back like a sequel to a never-ending horror story. Whenever she fell ill, she reappeared as a new being more hostile than the previous entity.”
― Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift

tags: and-surprises, bullying, explores-family-dynamics

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#23

“Locating the village elders, he said to them, “I think that we are in for a bad time. The American Sky Soldiers are coming by helicopter and the usual things the Americans do of air strikes by fighter-bombers and by B52 large bombers is starting at Long Phuoc! I fear the worst!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

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

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#24

“Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

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#25

“I glory in the emotionally commonplace”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

tags: cryptic, sad

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#26

“When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: invention

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#27

“I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

tags: life, love

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#28

“You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not give me no longer. I'm still what I was, and you'll always see it, and you'll always grant me the same response, even if there's a greater one that you grant another man. No matter what you feel for him, it will not change what you feel for me, and it won't treason to either, because it comes from the same root, it's the same payment in answer to the same values.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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