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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: battles, death, determination, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, grit, inspiring, veterans
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “As Aristocleia raised her cup to toast Xanthippus, her gown slipped from her shoulders, exquisite as Aphrodite’s, and flowed like the water that slid over her naked breasts when she allowed him to watch her bathe. It was wonderful to possess a gem of a woman. It made a man feel beautiful and godlike himself, briefly.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: 5th-century-bc, action, drama, enchantment, entertaining, fiction, literary-fiction, love, romance
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    Barry Kirwan
    “I’m a soldier,’ Nathan said. ‘We’re all soldiers, now. Soldiers don’t leave people behind.”
    ― Barry Kirwan, When the children come
    tags: action, dark, suffering, suspense
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Through me the way into the suffering city,
    Through me the way into eternal pain,
    Through me the way that runs among the lost.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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    Fredrik Backman
    “It just hurts so much at times, being human. Not understanding yourself, not liking the body you’re stuck in. Seeing your eyes in the mirror and wondering whose they are, always with the same question: “What’s wrong with me? Why do I feel like this?”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
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    Dave Cullen
    “The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.”
    ― Dave Cullen, Columbine
    tags: deception, misconception
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    Mark Twain
    “Drag your thoughts away
    from your troubles...
    by the ears, by the heels,
    or any other way you can manage it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: worry
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    Therisa Peimer
    “Her unexpected outburst rocked Flaminius to his core. Suddenly, she didn't seem so angelic. Her face twisted with rage; veins in her neck throbbed with fury in a scene all too familiar. Her reaction switched him off to her instantly as all his worst fears came to life.”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, fight, gripping, literary-fiction, love, mystery, war
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    Sara Pascoe
    “The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty, and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to make up its mind.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, historical-fantasy, magic, occult, supernatural, teenagers, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal, young-adult
    437 likes

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    Rick Riordan
    “But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily.
    -Aphrodite”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
    tags: beauty, inspirational, love
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “November is usually such a disagreeable month...as if the year had suddenly found out that she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it. This year is growing old gracefully...just like a stately old lady who knows she can be charming even with gray hair and wrinkles. We've had lovely days and delicious twilights.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: autumn, fall, november
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  • #13
    Shel Silverstein
    “I'm Reginald Clark, I'm afraid of the dark
    So please do not close this book on me.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
    tags: children, humor, poetry
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    Nelson Mandela
    “There is no such thing as part freedom”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    Tom Clancy
    “Either people were trustworthy or they were not.”
    ― Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit
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    Anne Frank
    “What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: anne-frank, the-diary-of-a-young-girl
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