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    A.R. Merrydew
    “     Illicit flight Alfa Bravo Charlie quickly reached a predetermined altitude and stopped dead. The passengers on board screamed the way people do on fairground rides. The shuttle hesitated momentarily and then shot forward accelerating rapidly to reach a blistering 145,222 miles per hour. They were in a Mach 22 situation. The cries from on-board could not be heard from the ground. Neither did anyone in the great metropolis of Llar witness the bright blue vapour trail the craft left behind in its wake. It was after all overcast and raining heavily.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange
    tags: adventure, drama, dystopian, fantasy-novel, fast-paced, full-on, funny, gripping, magical, wars
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    Raz Mihal
    “It feels like stepping on the clouds of love walking all day long. Love inside flushes away all tiredness, and my heart sings the melody of eternal souls.”
    ― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her
    tags: eternal-love, love-journey, soulful-walking, spiritual-bliss
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    Max Nowaz
    “He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller
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    Mike Martin
    “I’m so glad you’re okay,” she said, hugging him closely. She knew better than to ask for details. He almost never talked about the difficult parts of his police work. He said that he didn’t want to bring that home with him. ”
    ― Mike Martin, Too Close For Comfort
    tags: dead-body, deceit, fight, gold-heist, intrigue, lies, murder, power, smudging, suspense
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    K. Ritz
    “The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, engaging, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery
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  • #6
    Sherman Kennon
    “No one can make you feel inferior unless you allow them to.”
    ― Sherman Kennon
    tags: inspiration, inspirational-quotes
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  • #7
    “Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: bitterness, cruelty, ironies
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  • #8
    T.S. Eliot
    “If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: inspirational
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    Władysław Szpilman
    “And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.”
    ― Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
    tags: holocaust
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  • #10
    Anthony Burgess
    “What gives, O my little sister? Come thou and have a nice lay-down with your malenky droog in this bed.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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    Nick Hornby
    “People go on about the first time being important, but it's the second time that really matters. Or the second person, anyway.”
    ― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
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  • #12
    Annie Dillard
    “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.”
    ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
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    Wallace Stegner
    “Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim's Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else - pathway to the stars, maybe.”
    ― Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
    tags: ambition, drive, motivational
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    J.K. Franko
    “Mr. Park’s home, which doubled as his office, was small, dark, and stank of old man. Although Mr. Park was not that old, he was cheap and unmarried. And that smell, and the smell of old man, are easily confused.”
    ― J.K. Franko
    tags: new-book, next-novel, what-makes-you-stronger
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  • #16
    Tricia Copeland
    “If he had heard of the kiss, he would know I do not care for Holden, right? Foster and I have spent so much time together over the past month. And he said last night he would come again tonight. Why would he not?”
    ― Tricia Copeland, To Be a Fae Queen
    tags: adventure, antasy, drama, fantasy, fiction, magic, teen-ya, urban
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    K. Ritz
    “Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, dramatic, exciting, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit
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    Max Nowaz
    “Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
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    Mark Ellis
    “Cairo. An inter-services game of cricket was in progress in the lush grounds behind him as Powell made his way through the grand portal of the Gezira Sporting Club. It was a hot and humid day and Powell was dripping with sweat. A fellow officer had given him a lift for part of the way but he had had to walk the last mile. Uniformed Egyptian attendants bowed and guided him through the lobby towards the bar, where he could see his host with a drink already in hand.”
    ― Mark Ellis, The French Spy
    tags: commandos, courage, defence, freedom, french-army, liberation, ptsd, special-forces, strength, war
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    Gillian Flynn
    “It's not easy, pairing yourself off with someone forever. It's an admirable thing, and I'm glad you're both doing it, but, boy-oh-girl-oh, there will be days you wish you'd never done it. And those will be the good times, when it's only days of regret and not months.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
    tags: marriage
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  • #21
    “Nick looked at the very front of the dictionary. There was an introduction to the book called “Words and Their Origins.” Perfect! Nick thought. It was just what he needed to do his report. It would all be over in a few minutes. Nick could already feel the sun and the breeze on his face as he ran outside to play, homework all done. Then he read the first sentence from the introduction:”
    ― Andrew Clements, Frindle
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    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”
    ― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
    tags: militarism, military, wwi
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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish days when our simple hearts were full of truth, and faith, and reverence! Ah, those foolish days of noble longings and of noble strivings! And oh, these wise, clever days when we know that money is the only prize worth striving for, when we believe in nothing else but meanness and lies, when we care for no living creature but ourselves!”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome
    tags: cynicism, egotism, love, purity, selfishness, youth
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  • #24
    Gary Chapman
    “Love is a choice you make everyday.”
    ― Gary Chapman
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  • #25
    Jostein Gaarder
    “فالكبار يبدون دائما أكثر صبراً وجلداً وأكثر تحكماً في الزمن من الأطفال الذين يسعهم من الوقت حياة كاملة " ص٢٢”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl
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