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#1

“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

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#2

“This assignment is my duty to perform for the US Army. My job is outside your command, my friend. You know my security clearance level remains the same. Copying the SCI is a safety measure, in case there is an electrical glitch. So, I believe we’ve talked enough about this subject. Agree?”
― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

tags: classified, corps, lies, military, nuclear-waste, secrets, syria, tactics, us-v-corps

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#3

“The reality is that the lives of the smallest patients are in our hands, and their clinical condition can change in an instant. No matter how many times you are involved in situations such as this, the physical stress and anxiety as well as the emotional and psychological effects of being immersed in that environment are dramatic and lasting on the human body, mind, and central nervous system. These effects are severe, and I firmly believe that they are cumulative over your lifetime.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: action, doctors, family-life, fiction, health, patients, realistic, ruin, strife

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#4

“The Ganeva conference on Indochina agreements stated that the south of Vietnam would be handed over to a provisional administration after two years at the most and that general elections would be held in 1956 at the latest, giving Vietnam a single and united government. (due to American actions, the agreements were never put into place)”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: american-army, commandos, defence, freedom, french-army, liberation, nvasion, special-forces, strength, war

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#5

“We quickly became friends with other art faculty members such as the ceramist Jim Leedy and his wife Jean and art historian/artist Bill Kortlander and his wife Betty. I also began taking classes in Southeast Asian history with John Cady, who had resigned from his position at the U.S.[CB4] [mo5] State Department because he thought it would be a huge mistake to get involved in a “land war in Southeast Asia.” In 1966, his warnings were starting to become all too obvious as the Vietnam war grew and protests against it emerged. Dr. Cady was in the thick of the protests and was even being shadowed by the F.B.I. After I finished my BFA in art in 1966, I began work on a master’s degree in history at Dr. Cady’s urging. He and his wife became frequent guests at our parties”
― Mallory M. O'Connor, The Kitchen and the Studio: A Memoir of Food and Art

tags: arts, biography, food, kitchen, life, love-story, people, photography, places, recipes

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#6

“So, you know that group up there in the Planetarium then?’ The pistol continued. ‘Hey they say it’s a small world.’
     ‘Are they alright?’ asked Semilla darting forward.
     ‘Yeah, they’re all fine, apart from the President he’s rather dead actually, oh and one of the lampposts I’m afraid he copped it too.’
     Baz’s beacon flickered with emotion. ‘Which one?’ he asked.
     ‘There was only one President as far as I know,’ said the pistol indifferently.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

tags: action, drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, general, humour, past, sci-fi

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#7

“Janice suddenly flopped her body down on the dusty, musty train seat and pulled herself into a fetal position. Libby stroked her shoulder, trying to comfort her. Maggie and I looked at each other. We knew Janice had more to tell us.”
― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

tags: coming-of-age, compelling, gender, informative, life-story, men, politics, power, thought-provoking, women

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#8

“Despite wanting me to end her life, after a short while, Mrs Sloan fought back with surprising strength for such a small woman. Being close to death changed people, I guess, like drinking alcohol or someone saying your handwriting is beautiful changes you.”
― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons

tags: brutal, coming-of-age-ya-fantasy, future, graphic, horror, magical, raw

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#9

“My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under his chair.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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#10

“He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, fear, levin, love

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#11

“An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.”
― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy

tags: art, artist, creative-process, creativity, ideas, inspiration

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#12

“A death is like a ripple on the lake, lasting much longer than the impact that created it.”
― Ammar Habib, The Orphans of Kashmir

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#13

“Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

3 What does man gain by all the toil
at which he toils under the sun?

4 A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains forever.

5 The sun rises, and the sun goes down,
and hastens to the place where it rises.

6 The wind blows to the south
and goes around to the north;
around and around goes the wind,
and on its circuits the wind returns.

7 All streams run to the sea,
but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
there they flow again.

8 All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.

9 What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new under the sun.

10 Is there a thing of which it is said,
“See, this is new”?
It has been already
in the ages before us.

11 There is no remembrance of former things,
nor will there be any remembrance
of later things yet to be
among those who come after.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

tags: ecclesiastes, meaning-of-life, philosophy, religion, under-the-sun

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#14

“What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

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#15

“The Order? Here inside such a weak soul?”
“His spirit is failing, his faith too old."
“He cannot be saved."
“Few have tried."
“He is consumed by the lion."
“He is overtaken by pride.”
― J.B. Lion, The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity

tags: action, fantasy, graphic-novel, illustrated-books, inequality, lifting-the-veil, mental-construct, sci-fi, social-structures, socioeconomics

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#16

“With our beloved prairie voles the female has her ovulation induced by the smell of male urine. It’s a sure sign there’s a male nearby and so her body gets ready for mating. The exact opposite of a human female getting a whiff of urinals in a nightclub and her vagina falling off in disgust”
― Sara Pascoe

tags: sara-pascoe, women-s-humor

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#17

“The requirement for anyone running for elected office to have held a position of public service, such as fireman, school teacher, librarian, scout leader, or policeman was never actually passed into law.
Still the range of day jobs that some of our Congress people now hold are pretty amazing.
Somehow these days a background as a lawyer is a big minus.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

tags: american-history, discovery, historical-fiction, history, humour, satire, service, witty, women-in-politics

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#18

“Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid. Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: betrayal, emotions, friendship, honour, human-emotions, literary-novel, passion, relationships, tense, torment

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#19

“Jamie’s eyes gleamed. “God forgive me, I want there to be a murderer after the Falconer family so we in the College feel less to blame.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: action, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, murder-mystery, mystery, noir, noir-mystery

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#20

“Where’s everybody? I thought you had started production.” “They’ve got a day off, but don’t worry you’ll see the machinery is here.” But Brown was worried. As they entered the canteen, the lights came on automatically. There was nobody there. “What’s going…...” but he never finished the sentence. Brown felt a sharp pain on the side of his head and everything went black.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, action-thriller-fiction, drama, fiction, intrigue, mystery, suspense, thriller

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#21

“Appleby’s”
― Lawrence Hill, The Book Of Negroes

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#22

“To answer your next question: boxers. Plain blue boxers. No smiley faces. No hearts.”
― Jon Scieszka, Other Worlds

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#23

“Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Soldiers Three

tags: endurance, strength-of-character

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#24

“...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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#25

“This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all.
- The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”
― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

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#26

“Above all, her transformation of China was carried out without her engaging in violence and with relatively little upheaval.”
― Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

tags: cixi

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