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  • #1
    Dawn Chalker
    “During a cool, windy April, she had felt spring would never come this year.
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    ― Dawn Chalker, Bear Me in Mind
    tags: emotional-undercurrent, fresh-starts, hope-after-winter, mystery, nature-mood, reflective-fiction, slow-burn-tension, suspense
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    K. Ritz
    “Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, humour, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, sorcery
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    Todor Bombov
    “Socialism is not a competition; it is not a monopoly, either. Socialism is not a private property; it is not a state one, either. Socialism is a completely different thing. What is socialism in such case?”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: abolition, capitalism, freedom, humanity, keynes, nationalization, planned-capitalism, political-ideology, socialism, state
    231 likes

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  • #4
    “People are becoming more and more like pets in digital cages, where the only meaning of their lives is to consume and isolate themselves from others like themselves.”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: digitalage, modernlifecritique, philosophicalfiction, screentime, socialcommentary, thoughtprovokingreads, wakeupcall
    478 likes

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    Max Nowaz
    “That’s how we are programmed”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
    tags: artificial-life, big-ideas, chilling-line, control, existential-sci-fi, free-will-vs-fate, science-fiction
    54 likes

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    Dennis Lehane
    “Music”—he smiled his glorious smile and raised his index finger—“music speaks for the soul because words are too small.”
    ― Dennis Lehane, The Given Day
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    Tatiana de Rosnay
    “So maybe that's how it worked. That's how all this had happened. Hating people so much that you wanted to kill them. Hating them because they wore a yellow star. It made her shiver. She felt as if all the evil, all the hatred in the world was concentrated right here, stocked up all around her, in the policemen's hard faces, in their indifference, in their disdain.”
    ― Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key
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    Cornelia Funke
    “The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel
    tags: tulips
    86 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: life, organized-religion, religion, science, zealotry
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    James Dashner
    “Anybody else wanna pee their pants and cry for mommy?”
    ― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials
    tags: minho, the-scorch-trials-humour
    270 likes

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “A French lieutenant was asked by the commander of the French forces, “Jean, it seems to me that many people are only saying the things they think that I want to hear. Accordingly, what I am getting is not information, it is fucking bullshit!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: american-army, dangerous, divided, division, french-army, helpless, humanity, invasion, political, vietnam
    197 likes

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    Isham Cook
    “No human figures were in the painting; had there been, and she would have removed them by repositioning the painting.”
    ― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison
    tags: adventure, anti-heroine, character-study, dark-adventure, fiction, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, survival-story
    162 likes

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    JoDee Neathery
    “Sally could not dismiss the feeling that she and the strange man on the bus shared the same baggage, both losing their footing—both with fists clenched against the world.”
    ― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush
    tags: blame, challenges, guilt, love, mystery, novel, redemption, romance, suspense, tradgedy
    58 likes

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  • #15
    “These days I feel empowered by the same disturbing stories that once broke my spirit.”
    ― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child
    tags: empowerment, healing-journey, inner-strength, memoir, resilience, self-help, survivor-story, trauma-recovery
    88 likes

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    Maria Jane
    “I love your farm, you know I do, but this is your passion. I’m figuring out what mine is. I’m good at marketing. My supervisor says I have a good eye and creative ideas.”
    ― Maria Jane, Perfect
    tags: ambition, book-club-reads, contemporary-romance, finding-yourself, romance, self-discovery, womens-fiction
    202 likes

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    Marcia Breece
    “How can I help Mom understand that her value in the real world has nothing to do with her DNA test results?”
    ― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle
    tags: book-club-reads, dna-stories, family-saga, family-secrets, genealogy-fiction, identity, thought-provoking-reads
    68 likes

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    Lotchie Burton
    “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
    434 likes

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    Charles Dowding
    “Let crops overlap and you gain time, not just space.”
    ― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests
    tags: companion-planting, gardening, kitchen-garden, no-dig, productive-gardening, seasonal-planning, small-space-growing
    68 likes

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    N.S. Wikarski
    “That kind of leader usually manages to show up whenever there’s a culture in crisis. People get scared stupid, and they listen to anybody who sounds like he has a plan to get them out of the jam they’re in.”
    ― N.S. Wikarski, The Mountain Mother Cipher
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    Janet Fitch
    “After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are a trait and not an error.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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    Leon Uris
    “«Buscamos a tientas la pared, como los ciegos; andamos a tientas como si no tuviéramos ojos; tropezamos en el mediodía como si fuera de noche; nos encontramos en lugares desolados como si hubiéramos muerto. Rugimos como osos y gemimos doloridos como tórtolas…;”
    ― Leon Uris, Éxodo
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  • #23
    “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
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    Daniel Quinn
    “Whenever a Taker couple talk about how wonderful it would be to have a big family, they're reenacting this scene behind the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They're saying to themselves, 'Of course it's our right to apportion life on this planet as we please. Why stop of four kids or six? We can have fifteen if we like. All we have to do is plow under another few hundres acres of rain forest -- and who cares if a dozen other species disappear as a result?”
    ― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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    Mary Stewart
    “But the Easter sacrifice in their own homes - well, think it over. I used to think the same as you, and I still hate to see the lambs and calves going home to their deaths on Good Friday. But isn't it a million times better than the way we do it at home, however 'humane' we try to be? Here, the lamb's petted, unsuspicious, happy - you see it trotting along with the children like a little dog. Till the knife's in its throat, it has no idea it's going to die. Isn't that better than those dreadful lorries at home, packed full of animals, lumbering on Mondays and Thursdays to the slaughterhouses, where, be as humane as you like, they can smell the blood and the fear, and have to wait their turn in a place just reeking of death?”
    ― Mary Stewart, The Moon-Spinners
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