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#1

“You must enjoy the time and make the most of the experience because time slips away and before you realize it your youth has passed, and you are old.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

tags: adult-fiction, coming-of-age, erotic-romance, goodreads-quotes, life-advice, save-this-quote, wanderlust-reads, youth-and-time

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#2

“Handled properly, a single resolved mistake can build more trust than a hundred flawless transactions.”
― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

tags: brand-credibility, business-growth, customer-experience, customer-trust, leadership, marketing-nonfiction, memorable-insight, service-recovery

85 likes

#3

“Meanwhile, men like Huxley, Carnegie and Frick were the very select few who were reaping in the gargantuan rewards of gold, or in this case, coal and steel.”
― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age

tags: gilded-age, historical-fiction, historical-reads, industrial-revolution, robber-barons, social-history, steel-and-coal, wealth-inequality

67 likes

#4

“Why do they say that positive emotions prolong life? That is exactly true, because they physically provide the body with vital energy, and on the opposite side of the equation negative emotions burn the energy.”
― Alexander Morpheigh

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#5

“My tail is prehensile, but I certainly don’t tie it in knots,” Oswald said proudly.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animalhumor, animalstories, funny, funnyquotes, humour, kidlit, middlegrade, quirkyheroes, talkinganimals

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#6

“If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: coping-mechanism, philosophical-musings, prison-philosophy

318 likes

#7

“Eshra’s arena, dark and vile, like a black mold growing on the skin of the world. Yet oddly beautiful. The longer I stared at those walls, the more beautiful they appeared. Strong. Inviting.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: atmospheric-writing, beautiful-horror, dark-fantasy, epic-fantasy, gothic-fantasy, immersive-reads, saveable-quote, temptation, worldbuilding

54 likes

#8

“Now I protest to thee, gentle reader, that I entirely dissent from Francisco de Ubeda in this matter, and hold it the most useful quality of my pen, that it can speedily change from grave to gay, and from description and dialogue to narrative and character. So that if my quill displays no other properties of its mother-goose than her mutability, truly I shall be well pleased; and I conceive that you, my worthy friend, will have no occasion for discontent.”
― Walter Scott

tags: francisco-de-ubeda

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#9

“It makes tomorrow alright.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

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#10

“Every day that passed, the young woman thought more and understood less”
― Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday

tags: humor, inspirational

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#11

“you, too—whoever you are. And I say that because until you write back, I won’t know who I’m actually writing to. But the more I think about how this letter is going to travel all the way to Afghanistan, it’s sort of amazing. We hear about your country in the news here in America, mostly about how there has been so much fighting. Is there fighting around where you live? I hope not.” As his sister continued to struggle with each word, Sadeed thought back to what his teacher had said to him at noon as he and the other morning students were dismissed from school for the day. “Sadeed,”
― Andrew Clements, Extra Credit

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#12

“The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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#13

“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: excuse, life, musings, photos, writers, writers-life

319 likes

#14

“He had always been so careful, never revealed his true identity. But somehow, they’d fingered him, and his life had changed forever—for the worst. He couldn’t help but think that someone in the Central Intelligence Agency had turned on him. One of his own.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: determination, fast-moving, history, intrigue, legal-thriller, political, spy, suspense, terror, terrorism

86 likes

#15

“Luck be a lady tonight.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

tags: adult-fiction, goodreads-quote, high-roller-vibes, lucky-energy, night-life-reads, page-turner-mood, risk-and-reward

145 likes

#16

“Your light, Helen, is to show both peoples the enormous healing possibilities and potentials of the path of love instead of judgment and hatred. You do this simply by being who you are — a bridge of hope, dearest child.”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

tags: bridge-builder, character-growth, epic-fantasy, healing, heartin-fantasy, hope, love-over-hate, political-fantasy

47 likes

#17

“Gardening is easier and quicker when spacings are correct for different plants.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: climate, four-seasons, growing, healthy-vegetable, helpful, how-to, plant-guide, seasons, sustainable

302 likes

#18

“As the crew began lighting up their cigars and pipes, they could hear the ragtime music of Scott Joplin being performed by the colored composer himself enlivening the atmosphere with a jubilant feeling of gaiety, hope, and promise.”
― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age

tags: americana, cultural-history, evocative-writing, gilded-age, historical-fiction, hope-and-promise, ragtime, scott-joplin

64 likes

#19

“We think that the word 'boy' or the the word 'girl' says something about who a person is, who they will be. But that difference is much less dictated by the body they're born in than created by what we expect of them and how we treat each other.”
― Sara Pascoe

185 likes

#20

“Their branches shook as if trying to dislodge beetles crawling up their bony arms.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: atmospheric-reads, dark-fairytale-vibes, gothic-mood, london-nature, mystery-series, nature-imagery, urban-fantasy

154 likes

#21

“Without a clear purpose, you will keep changing directions, jobs, relationships, churches, or other externals — hoping each change will settle the confusion or fill the emptiness in your heart.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

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#22

“I trust no one. Not even myself.” —Joesph Stalin”
― Victoria Dougherty, The Hungarian

106 likes

#23

“I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.”
― John Steinbeck

94 likes

#24

“We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.”
― Barack Obama

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#25

“I grinned. This was the bit I liked. The little miracle. I felt it was something that would never grow stale no matter how often I saw it.”
― James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small

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#26

“Warum? Warum wird uns, was schön war, im Rückblick dadurch brüchig, daß es häßliche Wahrheiten verbarg.

Manchmal hält die Erinnerung dem Glück schon dann die Treue
nicht, wenn das Ende
schmerzlich war. Weil Glück nur stimmt, wenn es ewig hält? Weil schmerzlich nur enden kann, was schmerzlich gewesen ist, unbewußt und unerkannt? Aber was ist unbewußter und unerkannter Schmerz?”
― Bernhard Schlink, Der Vorleser

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