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    Wendy E. Slater
    “When blame and self-judgement are transformed, healed, and cease to be, we have reawakened without the myth, the mythos, of separation. We are One.”
    ― Wendy E. Slater, Into the Hearth, Poems-Volume 14
    tags: ascension, awakened-mind, forgive-yourself, forgiveness, inspirational, spiritual-growth, wisdom-inspirational
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    Carl Novakovich
    “Promise me, if this is the end of us, let it be the beginning of the revolution.”
    ― Carl Novakovich, The Watchers: The Tomb
    tags: adventure, demons, drama, dystopian-science-fiction, fantasy-novel, fiction, good-and-evil, occult-horror, supernatural
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    “Passing through the early fog, the fruitseller’s boat nudged the edge of the canal beside the Palazzo Malipiero. All around was stillness. Casanova whispered to me, “This is the type of pause that occurs just in the instant before la petite mort. The breath held before the gasp followed by the exquisite release.”
    ― Harry F. MacDonald, Casanova and the Devil's Doorbell
    tags: fiction-novel, historical-fiction, history, humour, memoirs, satirical, witty
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    Kirsten Fullmer
    “She gripped the wheel and squared her shoulders. She didn’t have to do any of this alone. All she had to do was notify the society and put out an All Points Bulletin on Adam and she’d know everything there was to know about the man within 24 hours.”
    ― Kirsten Fullmer
    tags: cozy-romance, small-town-mystery, small-town-romance, zocy-mystery
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager
    tags: intimacy, love, romance
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    Arthur Miller
    “BAYARD—looks at Von Berg for a moment, then addresses all: I don’t understand it, but take my advice. If anything like that happens and you find yourself on that train . . . there are four bolts halfway up the doors on the inside. Try to pick up a nail or a screwdriver, even a sharp stone—you can chisel the wood out around those bolts and the doors will open. I warn you, don’t believe anything they tell you—I heard they’re working Jews to death in the Polish camps. MONCEAU: I happen to have a cousin; they sent him to Auschwitz; that’s in Poland, you know. I have several letters from him saying he’s fine. They’ve even taught him bricklaying. BAYARD: Look, friend, I’m telling you what I heard from people who know. Hesitates. People who make it their business to know, you understand? Don’t listen to any stories about resettlement, or that they’re going to teach you a trade or something. If you’re on that train get out before it gets where it’s going.”
    ― Arthur Miller, The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays
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    Tracy Kidder
    “By signing up for the project you agreed to do whatever was necessary for success.”
    ― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine
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    Sun Tzu
    “By reinforcing every part, he weakens every part.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: wtf420bcblazinitsuntzu
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Or had Howl slithered out so hard that he had come out right behind himself and turned out what most people would call honest?”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
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    Michael Parker
    “It was odds on they would find out one of the team had escaped the blast, and it wouldn’t be long before they knew which one. Then they would come looking for him.
    And Conor intended they should find him.”
    ― Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant
    tags: catholic, complexity, emotional, guilt, heart-wrenching, leverage, organised-crime, page-turner, threat, unstoppable
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  • #11
    “If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: coping-mechanism, philosophical-musings, prison-philosophy
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    Sara Pascoe
    “Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fiction, historical-fantasy, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal
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    Andri E. Elia
    “He shredded my wings with his words.”
    ― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
    tags: action-and-adventure, dventure, fantasy-adventure, fiction-writing, love, magical, mystery, sci-fi, universe
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    Alan Bradley
    “When you’re in The System, like after being arrested, you’re no longer a participant. You’re being processed. Instead of an easy to ignore, well-greased cog, you become a sharp edge that needs to be ground down.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough
    tags: betrayal, city, culture, dark, new-york-city, ny, plots, tragedy, twists, vibrant
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    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “Next morning, we drank endless cups of coffee in the airport restaurant…Suddenly wide-eyed, she stared past me: “Good grief, some of the people they let in here.”
    ― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows
    tags: beautiful, dark, family-life, fiction, friendship, loneliness, memories, reality, sadness, secrets
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    Steven Decker
    “My people believe in balance,” he said. “We believe that all living things—plants, animals, people—have an intelligent spirit, and that they all make important contributions to the balance of the world.”
    ― Steven Decker, Projector for Sale
    tags: adventure, compelling, dreams, emotional, reality, romance, seeking, sports-romance, survivor, women-s-literature
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    Therisa Peimer
    “Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" 
    "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: dystopian, fantasy, fiction, fight, gripping, literary-fiction, love, mystery, sci-fi-romance, war
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    “Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.”
    ― R.J. Palacio, Wonder
    tags: normal, perceptions
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    Aravind Adiga
    “The dreams of the rich , and the dreams of the poor — they never overlap, do hey ?

    See , the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?

    Losing weight and looking like the poor . — Balram Halwai”
    ― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
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    Jane Smiley
    “It is hard to know whether an air of self-confidence precedes or follows success.”
    ― Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
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    O. Henry
    “I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an artist.

    O’Henry 'The Plutonian Fire' (1905)”
    ― O'Henry
    tags: artist, writer
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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    “Our laws as we support them now are slow, wasteful, cumbrous systems, which require a special caste to interpret and another to enforce; wherein the average citizen knows nothing of the law, and cares only to evade it when he can, obey it when he must.”
    ― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Man-Made World
    tags: crime, feminism, gender, gender-critical-feminism, government, law, punishment, radical-feminism, sexism, society
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    Bernhard Schlink
    “Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”
    ― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
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