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#1

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues

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#2

“To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

tags: humanity, imperfection, love

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#3

“That Mack McGuire, he makes my heart flutter like a clean sheet on a long line.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

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#4

“A certain kind of man looked at God’s own land, she thought, as she drew closer, and instead of beauty and wonder, all he saw was dollar signs.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

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#5

“He is my most beloved friend and my bitterest rival, my confidant and my betrayer, my sustainer and my dependent, and scariest of all, my equal.”
― Gregg Levoy

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#6

“Whether you like it or not, I created you to be a character in the novel of my life. Every child exists in part to further the narrative of the parent.”
― Callan Wink, August

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#7

“You’d think that the state of motherhood would come with a certain understanding of the world and your place in it. But it doesn’t. It doesn’t. Motherhood conveys responsibility. It conveys a certain ache. It doesn’t grant knowledge.”
― Callan Wink, Beartooth

tags: motherhood

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#8

“On the Acropolis, he’d thought she’d seen too much sun for a woman but in the courtyard, under the moon, her face, neck, and arms were as pale as the moon goddess. Allowing himself to imagine it was the moon goddess leading him upward was a way of climbing to the second story.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, drama, exciting, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, past, politics, present

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#9

“My Aspasia. With her, he’d discovered the sweetness in life . . . and she might like to know that. He’d tell her sometime. But he knew he’d given this lovely woman what she’d wanted most, their son’s name. He leaned over to the child. “So, you’re Little Pericles.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: action, drama, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, page-turner, politics, present

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#10

“Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: action, dark, drama, enemies, espionage, fight, literary-fiction, mystery, survival, tense

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