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“It was awful and so surreal to see it unfold before my eyes. I will never forget that sight. The only thing I could think of is that one day you are king of your domain, and the next day you are being escorted to your car by security.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

“Inside he was hurt. Not so much with Linda, but his failure to impress women generally with his abilities. There she was, an example: lending – no, giving –thirty thousand pounds to a smooth-talking old bastard, but she would not part with a penny to him after living with him for a year or more.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

“Valdin did not notice the grey stones in the distant rock, although they glinted in the setting sun, nor did he spot the three figures sitting below the rocks. Not that he would have spotted the men even if he had paid close attention. The two Coelete warriors had been instructed by Anaton. They were to look out for a man on a black stallion and follow him until they knew where he was going. The third Coelete would travel back through the passageway to report the sighting to Anaton.”
― Robert Reid, The Thief

“What other problems do American soldiers face when hunting down these fanat­ical killers?”
“A person’s senses are more acute when being hunted,” Reid said. “More adept at avoiding capture.”
These guys are good, Blake thought as a bead of sweat trickled down the small of his back. What have I gotten myself into?”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

“Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover to rescue the Scroll’s Key Keeper? Where were the College’s thanks for that?”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. People learn intimacy at home, and when those early standards are set too low, a wife may second-guess her judgment about when and whether she should leave.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Frozen with indecision. Frozen in the cold wind and snow. Just... fucking... frozen. Jesus, already. Make a fucking decision. He fell to his stomach and began crawling. Time to save the world.”
― William Kely McClung, LOOP

“Perhaps the most chaotic of Divisions Ke Hui Feng 第一 Ψ
visited was Recycling. First, it was mammoth, so big most of
her tour was spent aboard a drone. Thousands of Dazhong
used the 401 thoroughfares from both east and west, the 427
from the south and the 400 from the north to bring their loads of
recyclables from the MASS to the enormous MEG Recycling Centre.
The roadways might be in ruins outside the MEG boundaries, jagged
fragments of pavement between cavernous potholes and trails made by
traders, but within the MEG the wide lanes had been cleared and
covered with recycled rubber. They were smooth and divided, one lane
in—one lane out, between hundred-metre high foamstone walls on
either side. No one from the MASS would ever get into the MEG illegally;
at least, that was how it seemed.
Only those with proper credentials could enter the massive gates:
MASS traders, or trading companies, who specialized as middlemen
between the gatherers and the Recycling Centre. Not far outside the
gates the MASS traders had rebuilt ancient warehouses in which they
received goods, stored, and sorted them, then brought them, usually
by land freighters, down the ingress roads to meet MEG approved Di
sān overseers and, of course, decontaminated Dazhong who further
sorted the goods.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

“You see, there are no pretty pink flowers in the woods at night.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

“Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“When you are an addict and you get caught, you always seem to be at your lowest point.”
― Andrew Mann, Such Unfortunates

“He loved her when she was angry. And he was convinced it was because she was her most honest in those moments. ~Ruin”
― Lucian Bane, The Waking

“No, Billy, not every time. He only answers the ones that are said from the heart. You have to be sincere and believe in Him.”
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

“This was still the era - it would end later in that famous decade - when to be young was a social encumbrance, a mark of irrelevance, a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.”
― Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach

“That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“A scream pierced the sky, a child’s, so loud he dropped his cup, his right hand ready to reach for a weapon that wasn’t there. A survival reflex from another city, another part of the world. He tried to relax, but the scream had been real. Not like the whining wail he loathed, not even the shocked cry of a kid who’d just hurt himself. This scream had mortal fear in it. After three tours in Afghanistan, he knew the difference.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“The reality is that the lives of the smallest patients are in our hands, and their clinical condition can change in an instant. No matter how many times you are involved in situations such as this, the physical stress and anxiety as well as the emotional and psychological effects of being immersed in that environment are dramatic and lasting on the human body, mind, and central nervous system. These effects are severe, and I firmly believe that they are cumulative over your lifetime.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

“On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

“God is the Cure, Love is the Answer”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, God is the Cure, Love is the Answer : A Memoir

“I encourage readers recovering from a kidney transplant to heed the advice of their medical practitioners.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

“We know about the wildlife for God’s sake!” screamed Aideen. “We’re being attacked by a feckin’ pack of chimpanzees right now! Get us out of here!”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

“She just put a stake through his heart in broad daylight, and he’s still moving,” a dry voice responded. “I think that means he’s not a vampire, if you check.”
― John Patrick Kennedy, I Am Titanium

“The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Pháp luật và trật tự là cái giếng thần để các thầy uống từng gầu quyền lực, thỏa mãn các thầy giống hệt như quyền lực cá nhận thỏa mãn hẫu hết mọi người. Mặt khác, trong lòng các thầy thường xuyên âm ỉ một sự bất mãn đối với những người mà họ phải phục vụ. Với các thầy, thằng dân vừa là người được che chở, vừa là đối tượng. Là người được che chở, nó rất vô ơn, thô tục, hay bẻ hành bẻ tỏi. Là đối tượng nó lại khỏe quanh co và nguy hiểm, đầy những mưu mô xảo quyệt. Chỉ cần một thằng dân rơi vào tay những người bảo vệ pháp luật là chính cái đám người mà cảnh sát đang bảo vệ ấy liền rùng rùng chuyển đồng để tìm mọi cách xóa bỏ hết những cố gắng của các thầy. Các ông tai to mặt lớn vộ vàng mang quà cáp đút lót. Bọn côn đồ các ôn mất hết tính người thì được ông quan tòa non gan phóng tay cho án treo. Thống đốc bang và cả Tổng thống cũng vung tay ân xá nếu như các thầy cãi cãi hết hơi vẫn chưa chạy tội được cho hung phạm. Dần dần rồi các thầy cũng phải không ra. Tại sao các thầy không làm béng món tiền bọn côn đồ chi ra để tránh búa rìu công lí? Ai chứ các thầy thì cần tiền hơn tất cả. Con cái các thầy cũng phải vào đại học, kém cạnh gì bố con đứa nào. Bà xã nhà các thầy cũng phải được rảo các cửa hàng sang trọng chứ. Bản thân các thầy mùa đông cũng phải xuống Florida phơi nắng một tí chứ. Nói gì thì nói, các thầy phải liều tính mạng đâu có phải đùa.

Nhưng dù sao cũng có một giới hạn mà các thầy không dám vượt qua. Ừ thì các thầy ăn tiền của bọn bao đề đánh các và nhắm mắt cho chúng làm ăn. Các thầy đút túi ít tiền của mấy tay đỗ xe không đúng chỗ hay phóng nhanh vượt ẩu. Các thầy đồng ý làm ngơ với giá cả phải chăng để mặc cho các em hành nghề bán thịt sống qua điện thoại, mặc cho các em gái vui tính giải sầu cho khách khứa trong các động tội lỗi. Những căn bệnh ấy đã có từ đời nào đời nào, chúng gắn liền với bản chất của loài người. Nhưng các thầy không có cái lệ ngậm tiền mà dung túng cho ăn cướp vũ trang, cho buôn bán ma túy, hiếp dâm, giết người và các tội ác khác. Theo quan điểm của các thầy thì làm thế là phá hoại chính những nền tảng đã tạo ra uy quyền của các thầy và vì lẽ đó mà không thể chấp nhận được.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.”
― Gregory Maguire

“Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild’s ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Learn to see what you are looking at.”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance