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“When the bell of my flat rings at four o’clock in the afternoon, I don’t expect a policeman to be standing outside. “Sorry to disturb you sir,” he says. “Detective sergeant McCorquodale. It’s about your mother.” Detective sergeant McCorquodale is an enormous lighthouse of a man with the untroubled skin of a baby and not a trace of facial hair; a sort of man-boy who’s overdosed on growth hormones.”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

tags: calcutta, culture, dundee, family, fiction, fiction-writing, historical, human-history, india, period-drama

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#2

“She tossed him a small mirror so that he could see the results, and what he saw horrified him. The boiling concoction left a deep trail of burnt skin that stretched from the crown of his head all the way to his chin – almost like an artificial sluice that burned his flesh to form a large rivulet that ran down the center of his face.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: collection, fantasy, fun, imaginative, scary, sci-fi, short-stories, slasher, unique, varied

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#3

“I swallowed a sigh since, truthfully, I was glad she found the cabin.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#4

“The mayor stood, his surprise at her interruption apparent by his twitching mustache. “You—you can’t just burst in here. Who are you?”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

tags: cozy-mystery, small-town-mystery, small-town-romance

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#5

“Catching the wrong Fish is unrewarding.”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: action, adventure, crime, drama, exciting, literary-fiction, past, romantic, suspicion

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#6

“Blessings! Count them and be thankful. Ask for an abundance of them and accept with gratitude.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: attitude, blessing, choice, education, goodness, inspiration, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting

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#7

“Let’s not forget—we already have a highly ranked officer secretly working for us at Patch Barracks, V Corps headquarters.”
― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

tags: cold-war, conflict, diplomats, dynamic, government, identity, iraq, jeopardy, military, series

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#8

“God knows what we do not see, so let Him lead and set you free.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

tags: children-s-book, children-s-christian, childrens, early-readers, godly, rhyming, spiritualism, spirituality

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#9

“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

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#10

“You live on an island, surrounded by the ocean, and you don’t like seafood?”
“Yes, the irony is not lost on me.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

tags: powerful, sci-fi, science-fiction, teen-fiction, young-adult-fiction

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#11

“You know, the guys there were so beautiful—they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.”
― Allen Ginsberg

tags: 60s, gay-rights, history, homosexuality, lgbt-rights, lgbtq-activism, lgbtqia, stonewall-riot, stonewall-riots

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#12

“The people are living separately together,” he said. “So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all come running, and the one that stays quiet, the one that stays home, must explain. Is he in league with the criminals? Is he a coward? And what would he expect when he cries? This is simple. This is normal. This is community.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

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#13

“looked. For the past three days, time has been a fat slug napping on a shady stone. Karina is”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

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#14

“the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss put it, ancient writing’s main function was “to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel

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