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#1

“George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will, she promised herself. She would stake her life that those last words from her son would be solved by her. They were steppingstones into… whatever the wind and the stars and the valiant trees held for her.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: betrayal, dramatic, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, mystery, noir-mystery, suspense, thriller

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#2

“Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
― Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#3

“The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin

tags: art, canon, literature, writing

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#4

“Love is love, but there are so many ways of articulating it.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

tags: love

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#5

“Everybody was asleep. Everybody except me, James Herriot, creeping sore and exhausted towards another spell of hard labour. Why the hell had I ever decided to become a country vet? I must have been crazy to pick a job where you worked seven days a week and through the night as well. Sometimes I felt as though the practice was a malignant, living entity; testing me, trying me out; putting the pressure on more and more to see just when at what point I would drop down dead.”
― James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small

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#6

“This was what was wrong with me. All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been so close and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. From the minute I’d met Dante, I had fallen in love with him. I just didn’t let myself know it, think it, feel it. My father was right. And it was true what my mother said. We all fight our own private wars.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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#7

“Your largest wealth-building asset is your income. When you tie up your income, you lose. When you invest your income, you become wealthy and can do anything you want.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

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#8

“I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: admire, bitch, confidence, critic, inspirational, life, writing

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#9

“Them that’s gots, gets.” My uncle replied.”
― R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach

tags: 1960s-nostalgia, family-conflicts, insightful, loss, nostalgia-fiction, simpler-times, suburban-nostalgia, trust-and-betrayal, warmth, youthful-perspective

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#10

“The infant’s eyes were as black as if night were trapped behind his lids, and when he opened them she feared she’d be consumed.”
― Lesley Glaister, Blasted Things

tags: drama, literary-fiction, love, past-and-future, ptsd, war

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#11

“As we raise our vibrations through awareness of our true being, our energy field expands in radiance and beauty. Our awareness also expands with our energy field, and we become more intuitive and telepathic. We become more heart-centered in our personal relationships and with ourselves.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

tags: awareness, cosmos, energy-flow, quantum-entanglement, quantum-realm, space-and-time, subatomic-particles, universal-conciousness, universal-energy, unseen-energies

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#12

“I prefer death to dishonor for me and my child.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: compelling, danger, different-worlds, escape, fear, intrigue, power, secrets, twists, unexpected

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#13

“Maybe we can politely ignore each other forever? I think that's the mature thing to do.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo: 'Intense, also BRILLIANT, funny and forensically astute.' Marian Keyes

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#14

“Helen was lost and isolated, unable to participate with the rest of
the group. She was outside the circle with no sense of any connection
to a Creator, and no concept of what unconditional love might feel
like. If any type of God had indeed created her, then that Deity had
made a mistake too cruel to forgive.”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

tags: adversaries, dark-forces, epic-fantasy, family-secrets, forbidden-love, heroine-s-journey, longing, magical-inheritance, survival, temples

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#15

“Thomas K. Jones, an undersecretary of defense, played down the number of casualties that a nuclear war might cause, arguing that families would survive if they dug a hole, covered it with a couple of doors, and put three feet of dirt on top. “It’s the dirt that does it,” Jones explained. “Everyone’s going to make it if there are enough shovels to go around.”
― Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

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#16

“I sent a quick text to Adrian: I have a hickey! You can’t ever kiss me again. I honestly hadn’t expected him to be awake this early, so I was surprised to get a response: Okay. I won’t kiss you on your neck again.

So typical of him. No! You can’t ever kiss me ANYWHERE. You said you were going to keep your distance.

I’m trying, he wrote back. But you won’t keep your distance from me.

I didn’t dignify that with a response.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

tags: adrian-ivashkov, aftermath, freaking-out, hickey, humor, kisses, making-out, sydney-sage, texting

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#17

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

tags: activism

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#18

“I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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#19

“On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon

That night he had a stomach ache.”
― Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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#20

“Though I had been born in a city, I shared my father's love of nature. I loved the rich soil, the greenness of the plants, the crops, the buffaloes and the yellow butterflies that fluttered about me as I walked.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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#21

“We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: acid, love-gone-wrong, love-hurts, poison, reflection

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#22

“We think that the word 'boy' or the the word 'girl' says something about who a person is, who they will be. But that difference is much less dictated by the body they're born in than created by what we expect of them and how we treat each other.”
― Sara Pascoe

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#23

“When Cindy’s crying slowed to convulsive gasps, she picked up Floppy and they got in bed and she looked at the picture of her and her father at Lake Barkley. “Good night, Daddy. I love you!”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

tags: compassion, divine-intervention, empathy, faith, family-dynamics, forgiveness, justice, societal-issues, strength, transformation

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#24

“He grimaced and went after her. “I’m not a trainer. Just spent a lot of time working out.”

“Misspent youth, clearly.” She held the door open, standing just outside.

“My application to princess school was rejected.” Callan exited the building and fell into step alongside her. “Working out was how I coped.”

Sunlight peeked out from behind striped clouds and lit the early-morning sky. Autumn weather chilled the perspiration on his skin.

“Such a shame.” Meridian glanced up at him out of the corner of her eye.

“What is?”

“That you didn’t go to princess school. Could have learned some manners.” Her blue-green eyes sparked in the sunlight. And her mouth . . . Her lips set in some smart-looking, lopsided grin, with a small dimple.

I should definitely kiss that look off her face.

“Overrated. Inefficient. And I look terrible in a tiara.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

tags: fiction, friendship, humorous-american-fiction, humorous-fiction, literary, love, new-adult, romance, satire, steamy

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#25

“One other thing—she was always armed. Ossie May talked about her gun even more than she bragged about her cooking. Out of nowhere, she took me to the gun range. She finished one clip with her right hand then unloaded the other clip with her left hand. I certainly got the message. She was not to be messed with or messed over. I was scared straight by this woman.”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

tags: abuse, autobiography, bullies, manipulation, memoir, mental-illness, raw, sadness, schizophrenic, trauma

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#26

“Looking back, I can’t help but marvel at my naivety. I wasn’t chasing a fresh start. I was running straight into a reckoning. ”
― Steven Decker, INNOCENT AGAIN: A LEGAL THRILLER

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, mystery, profound-mystery, thriller

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#27

“ When we’re together, I feel like the sun just came out on a cloudy day.”
― Dawn Chalker, Lost and Found

tags: emotions, exciting, feelings, frienships, happiness, life, love, passion, romance, togetherness

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#28

“Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, exciting, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit

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#29

“They are all my favourites. All of them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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#30

“that we need to be charitable to one another because it’s the right thing to do, “not because it allows us to rack up mileage points for our trip to some imaginary heaven.”
― Wally Lamb, I'll Take You There

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