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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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    “Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: editing, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing
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    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “Joey was lying by the stream one afternoon after a hard day. He had been in trouble at school because he had left his homework at home. He had done the work, but his teacher didn’t believe him that he had completed it. Joey was still a bit upset with his teacher.
     
    Suddenly, he heard a very soft voice say, “Hello.”
     
    Joey sat up and looked around, but he couldn’t see anyone. So, he laid back down by the stream only to hear the voice again.
     
    The voice sounded bubbly and a little like running water. Joey didn’t know where it was coming from.”
    ― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water
    tags: children-s-book, curiosity, healing-vibrations, imagination, interactive-storytelling, kindness, self-reflection, storytelling, vibrations, water-cycle
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    Alyssa Hall
    “I call my accent Frenglian. A wee bit of French mixed with English and Sicilian." She emitted a small chuckle at her new made-up word.”
    ― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet
    tags: evocative, fear-and-courage, personal-redemption, quiet-thriller, rural-canada, secrets-of-the-past, shocking-twists, small-town-suspense, survival, trust
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    “I knew from the Count of Monte Cristo that prisoners’ minds could deteriorate. Years of confinement could send a man insane.”
    ― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre
    tags: conflict, courage, covert-action, intense-drama, military-thriller, morally-complex, psychological-thriller, resilience, tactical, urban-setting
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    Harold Phifer
    “I was just stunned; Aunt Kathy had actually moved on to another dimension! It finally happened! That lady was damn near invincible! She had survived assaults, coronaries, fevers, famines, flus, floods, plagues, pandemics, strokes, andglobal warming for almost 100 years. I’m willing to bet she outlived the Ice Age, but there’s no way to confirm it. If anyone told the devil “You’re a Lie,” it was Aunt Kathy. She just had a way of coming back and back like a sequel to a never-ending horror story. Whenever she fell ill, she reappeared as a new being more hostile than the previous entity.”
    ― Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift
    tags: and-surprises, bullying, explores-family-dynamics
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    “The wilderness is uncomfortable, pushes your limits and is unavoidable.”
    ― Kathryn Krick, The Secret of the Anointing: Accessing the Power of God to Walk in Miracles
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    “My mother—with all the embarrassment and hurt that she caused me in my youth—ended up giving me the drive and the fire I needed to be more and to do more.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: ambitions, dream, driven, family, growth, hopeful-love, love, motivating, teaching
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “You sound like you’re enjoying my suffering.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow
    tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel
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    Marcel Proust
    “...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.”
    ― Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
    tags: french, proust
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    Dr. Seuss
    “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
    tags: inspirational
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, expectations, false-belief, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, illusions, misconceptions, misogyny, stereotypes, women
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    Betty Smith
    “Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman even though her name was Nolan. They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices. But they were made out of thin invisible steel.”
    ― Betty Smith
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    Laura Hillenbrand
    “The average army or army air forces Pacific POW had lost sixty-one pounds in captivity, a remarkable statistic given that roughly three-quarters of the men had weighed just 159 pounds or less upon enlistment.”
    ― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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    Jonathan Swift
    “For these reasons, the trade of a soldier is held the most honorable of all others, because a soldier is a Yahoo hired to kill, in cold blood, as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.”
    ― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels / Stage 1
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