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    Sara Pascoe
    “It is weird that the same two parents can come together and make two such different people.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo: 'Intense, also BRILLIANT, funny and forensically astute.' Marian Keyes
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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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    C. Toni Graham
    “Imagination is not bound by possibilities. The creative mind will always break the shackles—making the impossible, possible.”
    ― C. Toni Graham
    tags: attitude, choice, education, goodness, inspiration, inspiring, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “I prefer death to dishonor for me and my child.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: compelling, danger, different-worlds, escape, fear, intrigue, power, secrets, twists, unexpected
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    Alyssa Hall
    “While not unappetizing, the food was too spicy. Not to mention, there were things on her plate that she didn’t recognize and was not prepared to eat.”
    ― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet
    tags: 2010-olympics, danger, hidden-motives, poignant-mystery, rebuilding, romance-suspense, shocking-twists, slow-burn, trust, vulnerability
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    “The city centre was still crawling with Christmas shoppers looking to add to their already burgeoning piles of gifts. To Scott they were like ants at a picnic, teeming from store to store, trailing oversized carrier bags and infants behind them as they went. Scott felt alien in this environment; pulling up his hood he hurried through the crowds, dodging pushchairs, lit cigarettes and charity collection tins.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: christmas, resentment, youth
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    “The Arabs poisoned the wells before they left—rotten dead animals dropped in.”
    ― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre
    tags: betrayal, chase, conspiracy, detective, fugitive, high-stakes, revenge, secrets, survival, undercover
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    Tom Hillman
    “It is working for God, not a boss. Maybe you will get a raise in consciousness.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: drama, empathy, healing, imagination, imaginery, insight, meditating, meditation, second-person, self-love
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    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “The librarian was called Miss Sunshine by all the kids. It wasn’t her real name, but she was so friendly and happy that everyone called her by that nickname. She asked Joey if she could help him find a book. He told her that he wanted a book about water and he thought the author was called Masaru Emoto. He told her he didn’t know how to spell the author’s name.”
    ― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water
    tags: creative-science, earth-cycles, emotional-impact, environmental-education, healing-the-earth, learning-about-nature, nature, positive-energy, sustainable-living, water-s-power
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    Pat Frank
    “You know how it is—everything that comes in is stamped secret or top secret or cosmic or something and the only people who dare declassify anything are the big wheels right at the top, and the people at the top hold conferences and somebody says, ‘Now, let’s not be hasty. Let’s not alarm the public.’ So everything stays secret or cosmic. Personally, I think everybody ought to be digging or evacuating right this minute. Maybe if the other side knew we were digging, if they knew that we knew, they wouldn’t try to get away with”
    ― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon
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    Margery Williams Bianco
    “Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
    ― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
    tags: books
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    P.D. Eastman
    “There they go.
    Look at those dogs go!
    Why are they going fast in those cars?
    What are they going to do?
    Where are those dogs going?”
    ― P.D. Eastman, Go, Dog. Go!
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    “Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England. Then the people marvelled, and told it to the Archbishop. I command, said the Archbishop, that ye keep you within your church and pray unto God still, that no man touch the sword till the high mass be all done. So when all masses were done all the lords went to behold the stone and the sword. And when they saw the scripture some assayed, such as would have been king. But none might stir the sword nor move it. He is not here, said the Archbishop, that shall achieve the sword, but doubt not God will make him known.”
    ― Sir Thomas Mallory, King Arthur And His Knights
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    Peter S. Beagle
    “I will miss it so,” she said beside him. “This hell of a place, I will miss it so much. This fat body, walking mud puddle, deceived by everything, this impossible, ruinous accident of a world, these people who would truly rather hurt one another than eat—oh, there is nothing, nothing, nothing I would not do to stay here ten minutes longer. Oh, I will leave claw marks, I will drag mountains and forests away under my fingernails when I am dragged off. Such a stupid way to feel. I will be all dirty from clutching at this stupid planet, and the gods will laugh at me.”
    ― Peter S. Beagle, The Folk of the Air
    tags: death
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