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#1

“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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#2

“I will tell you one final thing. You have your father’s temper. It
was his weakness as well as his strength. When you are on your own
you must remember this. Understand your passion and how to curb
it. If you don’t it will kill you.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

tags: adventure, ai, challenge, dystopian, earth, fast-paced, humans, machines, trilogy, war

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#3

“And I looked out at the dog, and McCoy trying to cradle her in one arm and cut the rope with t’other, and I said, ‘What goes around, comes around, daddy.’
“And he just smiled. A wicked smile. And he nodded. And he kept on driving, turning left onto the road to the church.” ”
― J.K. Franko, The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior

tags: crime, death, fascinating, intrigue, law, murder, mysterious, revenge, suspicious, trilogy

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#4

“Ah! You speak Levitan,” the man smiled. “But you’re not from Levita I think.” Like most Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown’s tastes.  “No, I lived there for a while.”  “Did you enjoy your stay?” “Up to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.” “Yes of course. So are the men in Levita,” the man smiled. “We used to have a cleansing programme to ensure a healthy population.” “You mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the population.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction, mystery, thriller

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#5

“Black reached for a Glock G21 SF. Two boxes of .45 Precision Tactical. Two knives. If he needed more, he was in real trouble.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: action, conspiracy, crime, espionage, gripping, horror, intense, thriller

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#6

“Even some of Bill and Hillary’s harshest political critics admire their success as parents.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

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#7

“When it comes to meditation, one minute is better than zero. Something is an improvement from nothing.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

tags: challenging, communication, explore, failures, identity, personal-growth, reflection, societal-expectations, successes

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#8

“God had been orchestrating the events of my life behind the scenes for years, and I had no clue.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: adversity, fulfilling, health, insightful, life, live, personal, purposeful, succeed, transformational

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#9

“Everything you do in life use percentage as your god.”
― Mario Puzo, Fools Die

tags: risk-based-mindset, risks

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#10

“Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.”
― Rick Warren

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#11

“All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.”
― Katherine Paterson

tags: books, censorship, reading

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#12

“Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a legion upon the dark rooftops. The wind came down from the north like a runner in lacrosse, violent and hard, to batter every living thing. They were there, each one alone in conversation with the stars, mining ephemeral love from cold and distant light.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

tags: communion, nature-as-church, numinous, our-place-in-the-universe, revelation, spirituality, stars

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#13

“One thing that became very clear during my own war service is that those who are actively taking part in war-like activities very seldom hate their former enemies. The reverse is the case with a great respect developing among the veterans, even if they happened to be on opposing sides.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: american-army, dangerous, divided, division, french-army, helpless, humanity, invasion, political, vietnam

159 likes

#14

“I must admit that if there was ever going to be a woman to take my mind and heart off of Annette, it would have been Aideen.”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: death, dystopian, earth, excitement, fantasy, future, thrilling, unexpected, vibrations

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#15

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

tags: abuse, betrayal, devine, fight, god, hope, life, strength, truth, unrest

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#16

“Some people say
Rhyming is but a sin.
Little sins are fun
So try, before you bin.”
― Max Nowaz, Timbi's Dream

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#17

“I write about revenge because it presupposes love, honor, justice: things that matter.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye Trilogy: Boxset 1-3

tags: honor, justice, love, revenge, writing

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#18

“At seventeen the young woman had worked out how to improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

tags: action, conquest, drama, greed, gunpowder, mysterious, orphan, truth, war, weapon

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#19

“It is because I was foolish then that I am now wise. O philosopher who see nothing save in a flash, how short is your vision! Your eye is not made to follow the underground working of the passions. FRAU VON GOETHE This”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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#20

“Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading

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#21

“Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.”
― John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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#22

“Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

tags: government, rulership, spacing-guild

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#23

“By the dawn of the seventeenth century, the order of Stormsongs had grown both darker and more powerful, while the Holy Roman Empire they allegedly still served found itself surrounded by powerful enemies – and on the brink of collapse.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

tags: bohemian-protestants, catholic, complex, drama, fiction-writing, impactful, literary-fiction, literary-novel, war

72 likes

#24

“Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh had been weaving was beginning to unravel with disastrous and dangerous consequences.”
― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

tags: action, adventure, exciting, fear, gripping, military, navy, special-ops, thrilling, trauma

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#25

“Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long in prison.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, trauma, unpredictable

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#26

“Captain Miller, we know that you are connected with military intelligence, and can obtain classified documents.”
― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

tags: corps, drama, espionage, exciting, fiction, lies, military, secrets, thriller, us-v-corps

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#27

“He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire."
"And you? What are your plans?"
"I have no plans to kill your father.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: action-packed, aliens, compelling, dry, earth, fast-paced, humans, humour, intrigue, mission

385 likes

#28

“some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”
― Sue Monk Kidd

tags: love-heart

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#29

“Well, I say, we all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, and our own self is what us have to hand.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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#30

“Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

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