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#1

“You begin to see things differently once you are dead.
Isaac Bonnyman”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

tags: death-and-dying, ghosts, zombie

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#2

“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, adventure, climatic, dramatic, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, mystery, profound, tense, unpredictable

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#3

“When those we care about are weakest, that’s when we must be strong for them.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, adventure, detective, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, noir-mystery, thriller

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#4

“You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.”
― John Rachel, Blinders Keepers

tags: banana, calculus, chimpanzee, education, golden-rule, lyme-disease

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#5

“I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace.
But this time, he refused to let her go. "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me! What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you by 130 pounds, how could you possibly be afraid of me!" He laughed.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: american-historical-romance, drama, historical-romance, passion, passionate, romance, tense, torment, victorian-romance

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#6

“Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?” he asked. Yellow hair like hers was rare among the Greeks. Though some people say that Helen of Troy . . .”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: exquisite, governance, historical, history, justice, political-intrigue, realistic, romance, vibrant

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#7

“Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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#8

“A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.”
― Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

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#9

“In all these places I have stood in Doorways and looked ahead.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

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#10

“I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.”
― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

tags: betrayal, choice, emotions, friendship, love, scarlet, wolf

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#11

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
― Founding Fathers, The United States Constitution

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#12

“I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone. It's like marrying a policeman.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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#13

“And she was right. No matter how they tried, the two humans, with the cat but without the microchip, couldn’t connect to headquarters. Raya heard a loud popping sound in her mind, like a huge rubber band being snapped, like a glider plane released from a Piper Cub.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, occult, supernatural, teen-ya, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

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#14

“Paul wasn’t too sure about a half nibbled peanut, quite some parting gift, he thought.”
― Molly Arbuthnott, Peanut the Hamster

tags: bond, friends, happiness, heartbreak, hope, inspiring, loss, love, pets, special-bond

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#15

“One last piece of advice."
"What's that?" I ready my pencil and paper.
"Don't take no for an answer." She wags a finger at me. "Never take no for an answer, and they will learn to respect you.”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

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#16

“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

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

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#17

“Hestia looked at Eli like he was dressed in a gorilla suit and immediately morphed into a Rottweiler the size of a lion. “You still think I should wear clothes,” she challenged Eli.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

tags: drama, edge-of-your-seat, fiction, horror, literary-fiction, suspense, thriller, thrilling

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#18

“She’s a cop’s wife. She understands what her husband does for a living,” the priest said.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: detective, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, mystery, noir, noir-mystery, pi, private-investigation

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#19

“It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: ancient-greece, conflict, greek-gods, historical-fiction, love-story, romance, spartans

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#20

“An appeal to me in this fiendish row - is there? Very well; I hear; I admit, but I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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#21

“he is not fit to visit strange countries, who cannot rule his tongue before his own countrymen,”
― Walter Scott, The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more

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#22

“MÁS ACÁ DEL BIEN Y DEL MAL”
― Primo Levi, Trilogía de Auschwitz

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#23

“I will cover minor and major human settlements equally, because most of those which were important in the past have diminished in significance by now, and those which were great in my own time were small in times past. I will mention both equally because I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.”
― Robin A.H. Waterfield, The Histories

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#24

“Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day!”
― Robert N. Munsch, Mortimer

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#25

“I sat there in the lobby with a 7Up and a hog-tied Japanese nymphomaniac locked in my room”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

tags: drugging, explorer, fear, gang-stalking, hitmen, murder, occult-organisations, south-africa, travel-biographies, true-crime

82 likes

#26

“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: excuse, life, musings, photos, writers, writers-life

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#27

“When the heart chooses, the mind will start the fight harder than ever before because it feels like its end when feelings are before its existence.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: feelingsfirst, heartovermind, innerbattle

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#28

“Blessed art thou among women.” Who can’t relate to a line like that? It’s just saying you’re one holy chick and everyone, even God, is totally into you.”
― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood

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#29

“نظرگاه دینی همیشه شیوه های آرمانی زیستن را عرضه می کند، در حالی که فرد غیر مذهبی زندگی آرمانی را در انتخاب آزاد می بیند، مادامی که این انتخاب، انتخاب آزاد دیگران را مخدوش نکند”
― امبرتو اکو, ایمان یا بی‌ایمانی؟

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#30

“There may be no great honour in killing a woman; such a victory can bring no fame. But I shall have some credit for having stamped dead a mortal sin, and punished a wrong which cries out for justice; and it will be joy to have gutted my desire for the vengeance of the fire and satisfied the ashes of all that were ever dear to me.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

tags: justice, revenge

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