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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: writing-advice
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    Wayne W. Dyer
    “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.”
    ― Wayne W. Dyer
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    Sven Birkerts
    “I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose.”
    ― Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
    tags: books, novels, reading
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    Patricia Briggs
    “Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Raven's Strike
    tags: truth, truths
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    “Nothing spells trouble like two drunk cowboys with a rocket launcher.”
    ― C.J. Box, Cold Wind
    tags: cowboys, drunk, humor, rocket-launcher, trouble
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    “In Joe’s experience, the person who talked the most very often had the least to say.”
    ― C.J. Box
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    “On the third day of their honeymoon, infamous environmental activist Stewie Woods and his new bride, Annabel Bellotti, were spiking trees in the forest when a cow exploded and blew them up. Until then, their marriage had been happy.”
    ― C.J. Box, Savage Run
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    Robert James Waller
    “Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again.”
    ― Robert James Waller
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    She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she’d left chilling
    “She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she’d left chilling in the fridge. Two glasses served with a generous slice of pound cake with orange glaze icing sounded twice as nice.”
    ― Ed Lynskey, Fur the Win
    tags: cozies, cozy, cozy-mysteries, cozy-mystery, humor, mysteries-cozy, romance, whodunit, women-sleuths
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    Jules Verne
    “The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.”
    ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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    Jules Verne
    “I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new”
    ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
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    Jules Verne
    “Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
    ― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
    tags: experience, failure, science
    710 likes

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    Jules Verne
    “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
    ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Aphra Behn
    “That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
    ― Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance
    tags: library, reading
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    Elizabeth Bear
    “Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.”
    ― Elizabeth Bear, Whiskey and Water
    tags: coping, drama, life
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    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
    tags: books
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    J.D. Robb
    “No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.”
    ― J.D. Robb, Innocent in Death
    tags: fiction, mystery, romance
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    J.D. Robb
    “For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled. Since he was asleep, she stroked his hair.

    "I love you," she murmured. "I love you so much, I'm stupid about it."

    With a sigh, she settled down, closed her eyes, and willed her mind to empty.
    Beside her, Roarke smiled into the dark.

    He never slept first.”
    ― J.D. Robb, Ceremony in Death
    tags: eve-and-roarke
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    J.D. Robb
    “I want to see you again." He stopped, took her face in his hands. "I need to see you again."

    Her pulse jumped, as if it had nothing to do with the rest of her. "Roarke, what's going on here?"

    "Lieutenant." He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. "indications are we're having a romance.”
    ― J.D. Robb, Naked in Death
    tags: eve-dallas, roarke
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    J.D. Robb
    “There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.”
    ― J.D. Robb, Promises in Death
    tags: friends, friendship
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    J.D. Robb
    “Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman.”
    ― J.D. Robb
    tags: eve-dallas, prayer
    224 likes

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    J.D. Robb
    “I know you love me, but I don't know why. I look at you and I just can't get why it's me. Every time I get my balance, I lose it again. Because it shouldn't be me, and I think it'd kill me if you ever figured that out.”
    ― J.D. Robb
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    J.D. Robb
    “We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?"
    "Perfect timing.”
    ― J.D. Robb, Glory in Death
    tags: death, eve-dallas, glory, glory-in-death
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    J.D. Robb
    “Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it. ”
    ― (Roarke)J.D. Robb
    tags: futuristic, mystery, romance, suspense
    205 likes



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