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    Robert Reid
    “I said, leave her alone!” Her saviour was a slim young man with blonde hair tied back in a pony tail, and even in the gloom his eyes seemed to burn with ice-cold intensity.”
    ― Robert Reid, The Thief
    tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy
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    “Make no mistake: You will be challenged at some point in time. We all are. That’s just life.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: challenge, healing, inspiring, life-skills, motivating, personal-branding, realism, reality, refelctive, self-refelction
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    “Cindy Divine rushed out of her first-period classroom at Calloway County Middle School. Betty Sue Bowling, her English teacher, rushed to the doorway and ordered her back to the classroom. Cindy ignored her as she ran to the nearest fire alarm and pulled the handle. A screeching blare flooded the classrooms and hallways.”
    ― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings
    tags: compassionate-leadership, emotional-advocacy, freedom, guardian-angels, hope-against-all-odds, humanity-restored, love-and-loss, redemptive-arc, standing-up, the-power-of-faith
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    Harold Phifer
    “Thanksgiving is no time for amateur hour in the kitchen, but we were subjected to this Gong Show on a yearly basis. Aunt Kathy went knee deep in her preparations where others would have surrendered.”
    ― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
    tags: abuse, autobiography, bullies, manipulation, memoir, mental-illness, raw, sadness, schizophrenic
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    K. Ritz
    “If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery
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    Tom Hillman
    “Before going to breakfast, you are in your
room experiencing the gongs of a classic religious
    bell, a unique and cuddly invitation to the morning meditation session. In ten minutes it will be 7:00 a.m.—dawn’s brisk reminder that life will never be easy. Mornings are a bit cruel.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: descriptive, drama, empathy, joy, meditation, motivated, peace, religous, self-healing, spiritual
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    J. Rose Black
    “If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement. Just him, a quiet mind and his breath.”
    ― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath
    tags: drama, fiction, fun, general-fiction, laugh-out-loud, love, relationships, romance-novel, satire-fiction, suspense
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  • #8
    “I’ve seen the anointing at work time and time again—people healed, oppression lifted, and lives completely transformed in an instant.”
    ― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression
    tags: change, church, examples, family, find-god, jesus, powerful, theology, upbringing, values
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    Sara Pascoe
    “What’s “ague?”‘ Raya asked.
    ‘Malaria.’ Oscar said.
    ‘Oh, great.’
    ‘Hey, you want plague? They got that too.’ Raya ignored
    the cat.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, coming-of-age, coming-of-age-fiction, engaging, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, occult, supernatural, young-adult
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    Dawn Chalker
    “It was the worst moment of my life, to realize she was really gone, never to return.”
                Tara does not know what it would be like to have lived with the same person, loved the same person, for so many years, and suddenly have them not be with you ever again.”
    ― dawn chalker, Lost and Found
    tags: darkness, drama, dreams, heartbreak, hurt, life, loss, love, sad, triumph
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    Munro Leaf
    “A lot of people—young and old— have not done a very good job of taking care of our country so we can enjoy living in it. Almost everywhere today you see the marks of the stupid and the careless who are ruining what we should all take care of for our own pleasure—and our own good.”
    ― Munro Leaf, Who Cares? I Do.
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    Heath Sommer
    “You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
    ― Heath Sommer
    tags: the-manufactured-identity
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good.
    I know too much to be good. I know myself.
    I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
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    Henri Charrière
    “Cum adică, băiete! continuă şmecherul, ai două muieri, una mai mişto ca alta, trăieşti gol în mijlocul naturii c-o întreagă bandă de nudişti simpatici, haleşti, bei, vânezi; ai marea, soarele, nisipul cald, până şi perlele le capeţi pe damoaca, şi nu găseşti ceva mai bun de făcut decât să laşi baltă toate astea ca s-o iei din loc? Încotro? Zi! Ca să treci strada în fugă, să nu te calce maşinile, ca să fii nevoit să-ţi plăteşti chiria, croitorul, lumina şi telefonul, iar dacă ţi s-a făcut de-o maşină mică, să faci spargere, sau să munceşti ca un dobitoc pentru vreun patron, câştigând cât să nu mori de foame? Nu te-nţeleg, omule! Erai în cer şi te-ntorci de bunăvoie în iad, unde, pe lângă grijile vieţii, mai trebuie să te fereşti de toţi gaborii din lume care te vânează!”
    ― Henri Charrière, Papillon
    tags: înapoierea-la-ocnă, întoarcererea-la-civilizație
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein-- side by side with... visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said, "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and nexe year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it. ”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: amelia
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    Malcolm X
    “Tell him that he and all of the other moderate Negroes who are getting somewhere need to always remember that it was us extremists who made it possible.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: extremists, malcolm-x, martin-luther-king, mlk, moderate
    13 likes



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