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    Lotchie Burton
    “He reached for one of her fidgeting hands, grasping hold. Her eyes met his then faltered, lowered and grazed over his damaged skin. Her gaze burning nearly as deep as the wounds.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire
    tags: adventure, attitude, excitement, exciting, explore, fast-paced, full-on, gripping, intrigue, thrilling
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    “Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: descriptive-prose, lust, strippers
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    “Be tough as a wolf lest wolves eat you.”
    ― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre
    tags: combat, cross-border, ex-soldier, hero, high-adrenaline, layered-plot, nerve-jangling, political-tension, shadowy-past, truth-seeker
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Tenderly he reached for her and lightly took her hand, lifted it, and touched it to his lips.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: action-fiction, destiny, engrossing, fear, honor, humans, irreversible-damage, literary-fiction, survival, unexpected
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    Sara Pascoe
    “Maybe we can politely ignore each other forever? I think that's the mature thing to do.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo: 'Intense, also BRILLIANT, funny and forensically astute.' Marian Keyes
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    “My grandmother said, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you had to go, where you got the ring, or where you played the Super Bowl, all that matters is that you put in the work, you deserved it, and you earned it.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: community-building, death, drama, eccentricities, fiction, friends, friendship, fun, humour, life
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    Alyssa Hall
    “Don’t make assumptions, Detective Tobin. Don’t they teach you that in detective school?”
    ― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet
    tags: contemporary-fiction, female-protagonist, house-sitting, love-and-danger, murder-investigation, page-turner, personal-growth, resilience, second-chances, small-town-secrets
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    Tom Hillman
    “Various large trees— willowy peppers and especially the pines—seem to be reaching down to hold your hand.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: descriptive, fiction, humour, insightful, realistic, refreshing, relateable, soul-healing, spiritual, thought-provoking
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    Margarita Barresi
    “Enraged, Marco paced back and forth, gripping the newspaper in his fist. What do these animals hope to accomplish with senseless violence? We have enough suffering on this island. Do we have to kill each other, too?”
    ― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage
    tags: class-disparity, cultural-fiction, feminism-in-history, inner-turmoil, lush, perseverance, political-struggle, real-estate, social-mobility, thought-provoking
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    Tatiana de Rosnay
    “She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these other people with her had to be treated this way. Who decided this, and what for?”
    ― Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key
    tags: true-to-life
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals combined.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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    Sophocles
    “There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: character, consideration, pride, thoughtfulness
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    Alan Brennert
    “December 22, 1980, the Kalaupapa peninsula was designated a National Historical Park and its residents were, as per Public Law 96–565, “guaranteed that they may remain at Kalaupapa as long as they wish.” As of this writing, there are approximately thirty-one individuals with Hansen’s disease living there in quiet dignity.”
    ― Alan Brennert, Moloka'i
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    Margery Williams Bianco
    “Lo real no es algo que te venga dado. Es algo que te pasa. Y ahora mismo, necesitas que te pasen cosas buenas.”
    ― Margery Williams
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant
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