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#1

“My bad, Colonel. What do you need?”
“I want to report a homicide.”
I raised an eyebrow. “Homicide? Did you kill someone?”
His eyes narrowed at my poor attempt at levity.
“Me. I’m the one who was killed.”
“Colonel, Sir, with all due respect, I really don’t have time for this kind of humor.”
”
― Behcet Kaya, Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel

tags: action, adventure, drama, dramatic, fast-paced, investigation, mystery, thriller

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#2

“Standing by the tall living room window, Audrey watched the sunset turning red, as if the clouds were soaked with spilled Bordeaux.”
― Marcia Breece

tags: atmospheric-reads, burgundy, family-saga, fiction, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, paris-setting, wine-fiction

72 likes

#3

“I mean, I’d thought about where I would be in five years, what I wanted, but I guess I didn’t realize I’d already headed down a path.”
― Maria Jane, Perfect

tags: career-women, crossroads, independence-quotes, life-choices, quotes-to-live-by, reflective-reads, self-discovery, womens-fiction, womens-rights

80 likes

#4

“But the outcome was inevitable: she assumed you would not take no for an answer; she could already see your charming smile morph into the grimace of a rabid dog. To”
― Isham Cook, Lust and Philosophy

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#5

“Fairness isn’t about charity. It’s smart business.”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

tags: academic, bias, chemistry, emotional-intelligence, grounded, power-balance, relationship, research, teamwork, workplace-norms

191 likes

#6

“Holy Christ, people, we’ve accidentally done what we sold to the public.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: bioethics, dystopian-vibes, moral-dilemma, near-future-sci-fi, sci-fi-warning, science-and-society, tech-backfires, thriller-books, unintended-consequences, we-messed-up

148 likes

#7

“He doesn’t know how much I love my dog.”
― D.L. maddox

tags: dog-lovers, emotional-stakes, heartin-the-dark, loyalty, protect-what-matters, thriller-reads

15 likes

#8

“I’ve got news for you, mister—pain isn’t a monopoly, it’s a franchise. And everybody buys into it at some point or another.”
― Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge

tags: dark, dark-humor, emotional, emotional-truth, found-family, romantic, romantic-suspense

36 likes

#9

“Miranda's reward to herself, after a chief investigator dubbed her "the Eloise of four-year-old detectives," was to stretch her age. She’d now taken to informing people that she was four- and-a-half-and-three-quarters. She didn't seem to grasp the concept of almost-five.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, murder-mystery, mysterious, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller

260 likes

#10

“Acceptance can be so freeing. Before you know it, you’ll move toward forgiveness, which leads to wholeness.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

tags: forgiveness, healing-journey, mindfulness, personal-growth, self-help, spiritual-healing, wholeness

289 likes

#11

“The United States had a long bipartisan tradition of negotiating with even its worst enemies, from John Kennedy--'Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate"--to Richard Nixon's opening with China, to Ronald Reagan's famous 'walk in the woods' with MIkhail Gorbachev. Obama's position was firmly in line with longstanding diplomatic practice. George W. Bush's post-9/11 policy--'You are either for us or against us'--was the exception, and a bad one. It removed subtlety from international affairs.”
― Mark Bowden, The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

tags: bush, international-policy, obama

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#12

“I covered his thumbprint with my thumb and considered for the first time that Papa might have been more than just old pictures - old, repeated stories.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

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#13

“Yes, I was determined to have a happy Christmas' 'Did you?' 'I think so. I don't remember it much, and that's always a good sign, isn't it?”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

tags: charles, family, julia

11 likes

#14

“Sentry: King, may I speak?

Creon: Your very voice distresses me.

Sentry: Are you sure that it is my voice, and not your conscience?

Creon: By God, he wants to analyze me now!

Sentry: It is not what I say, but what has been done, that hurts you.

Creon: You talk too much.”
― Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

15 likes

#15

“I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

tags: breathe, quiet, rest

28 likes

#16

“You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.”
― Malcolm X

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#17

“I would caution you—ambition is a deadly disease.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: ambition, christian-fantasy, dark-fantasy, darkness, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, political-fantasy, quote-of-the-day

427 likes

#18

“11. Four Eastern Aramin warriors drew their swords and moved towards Armand. Aaron started to move forward, thinking Armand would need some help. At the same moment Armand dropped down to one knee and to the tune of sixteen bow strings, sixteen feathered barbs crisscrossed the space that the Eastern Aramin warriors had advanced into. Wolfasten held up his hand and shouted to his men, “Hold your positions!” Then he nodded to Armand. “You are the conductor of this ring of arrows, I presume?”
― Robert Reid, The Empress

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fantasy

58 likes

#19

“Eliza answered, “My Lady, that was Sir Roger Mortimer!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

tags: captivating, facts, fiction, france, historical, human-history, king-edward, period, political-obstacles, researched

197 likes

#20

“The people have a right to know. And a right to protect themselves. I’m only doing my job.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

tags: crime, crime-thriller, dark-suspense, fbi-procedural, investigative-reporter, moral-conflict, press-ethics, reader-debate

126 likes

#21

“It hardly felt real that she was gone, though the heavy pain Agata had carried for weeks reminded her, sitting like too many sweets in her stomach; that and the black fabric, the black everywhere.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: coming-of-age, emotional-reads, grief, healing-journey, historical-fiction, loss, lyrical-prose

178 likes

#22

“When I was a cop me and my partner saw plenty of his handiwork. Yeah, we pulled his handiwork out a the water by the docks, we saw it in the bloody alleys, we saw it in cars burnt up on the side of the roads…”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

tags: challenging, corruption, devastation, dramatic, historical, pi, racial-slurs, soldier, threats, war

59 likes

#23

“Today I plan to smile a lot, only so people who know me will be freaked the fuck out.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: daily-goals, funny, humour, humour-quote, humourosly-inspirational, smile

346 likes

#24

“Politically, he was a humanitarian who did know right from left and was trapped uncomfortably between the two. He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right-wing friends to his Communist enemies, and he was thoroughly detested by both groups, who never defended him to anyone because they thought he was a dope.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: communism, humanitarianism

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#25

“اولئك الذين ينشدون الحقيقة هم اكثر من اصدقاء، انهم اخوة.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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#26

“About ten other young, male undergraduates regularly attended these sessions of midnight programming. “It was a whole subculture. It’s been popularized now, but it was a secret cult in my days,” said Alsing. “The game of programming—and it is a game—was so fascinating. We’d stay up all night and experience it. It really is like a drug, I think.” A few of his fellow midnight programmers began to ignore their girlfriends and eventually lost them for the sake of playing with the machine all night. Some started sleeping days and missed all their classes, thereby ruining their grades. Alsing and a few others flunked out of school.”
― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of A New Machine

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#27

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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