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#1

“First, she had been unconsciously absorbing this virginity rule
without ever questioning it. Second . . . it struck her that virginity
was a male fetish wrapped tightly around another male fetish called
“purity.” Emma was certain that whoever originated the concept of virginity
was a man.”
― Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz

tags: crime, detective, fantasy, fiction, horror, international, intrigue, murder, mystery, tense

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#2

“Continually question climbing pursuits. Do they draw one back to the climbing community? Or do they lead along the [inner-directed] path? This questioning generates a tension that is heightened by disillusionment. Ultimately, one reaches an
emptiness, and this is where our basic spontaneous nature leads to the beginning of the path... Thereafter one can continually stand apart from the outer world of climbing, yet at times be fiercely involved in it. Philosophical and mystical dimensions emerge when the two worlds are brought together.”
― Jon Krakauer, Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

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#3

“Kitalah planet yang hidup itu, Sophie! Kitalah kapal besar yang berlayar mengelilingi matahari yang membakar alam raya. Tapi kita masing-masing adalah juga sebuah kapal bermuatan gen-gen yang melayari kehidupan. Jika kita sudah membawa muatan ini dengan selamat ke pelabuhan berikut --berarti hidup kita tidak sia-sia.”
― Jostein Gaarder

tags: bahasa-indonesia, dunia-sophie, inspirational, life, philosophy

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#4

“If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

tags: bill-of-rights, forefathers, pollution

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#5

“You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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#6

“Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: advanced, bloodshed, drama, exciting, fiction, genetics, lovers, political, supremacist, thrilling

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#7

“Then wake up my sweet, wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: american-historical-romance, emotions, friendship, historical-backdrop, human-emotions, love, powerful, resilience, romance, romantic-tension

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#8

“This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, engaging, exciting, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery

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#9

“But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,” but anyone could see it looked like her.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, evolution, fiction, golden-age, history, immersive, love, love-story, treacherous

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#10

“Ano snorted in a very unladylike and elkish way.”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

tags: change, curiosity, fantasy, gripping, relationships, romance, secrets, self-discovery, shape-shifters

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#11

“If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: androids, artificial-humans, dystopian, exciting, intrigue, invasion, mission, planets, revolution, secrets

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#12

“I'm Oracle, I know everybody.”
― Chuck Dixon, Birds of Prey, Vol. 2

tags: barbara-gordon, birds-of-prey, dc-comics, oracle

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#13

“Fake things can't really happen.”
― Robert Munsch, Aaron's Hair

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#14

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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#15

“In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

tags: fame, infamy, right-and-wrong

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#16

“In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf”
― Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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#17

“Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have reacted like the fox. He was gone like a shot.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

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#18

“I don’t remember ever looking at my mother this way, like I could eat her down to the bone then wipe my bloody mouth on her hair.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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#19

“The stock that is laid out in a house, if it is to be the dwelling-house of the proprietor, ceases from that moment to serve in the function of a capital, or to afford any revenue to its owner. A dwelling-house, as such, contributes nothing to the revenue of its inhabitant; and though it is, no doubt, extremely useful to him, it is as his clothes and household furniture are useful to him, which, however, make a part of his expense, and not of his revenue.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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#20

“The pen is mightier than the sword... an considerably easier to write with. - Marty Feldman”
― Tom Sechrist

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#21

“The Bible says, “We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works.”1 Our English word poem comes from the Greek word translated “workmanship.” You are God’s handcrafted work of art. You are not an assembly-line product, mass produced without thought. You are a custom-designed, one-of-a-kind, original masterpiece.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

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#22

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: humor

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#23

“But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative climes, it actually flees to higher planes.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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#24

“I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that they are a real person.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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#25

“I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

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#26

“I told you she was doing all four of 'em.”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

tags: action, action-thriller, drama, favorites, fiction, mystery, suspense, suspense-thriller, thriller

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#27

“based on the ordinary American’s conviction of his God-given right to rape the globe’s resources for his own comforts;”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Devil's Alternative

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#28

“I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

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#29

“When you’re nothing, you’re free to believe anything.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Milkweed

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#30

“I am puzzled. Yesterday, at the very moment when I thought. everything was untangled, and that all the X's were at last found, new unknowns appeared in my equation. The origin of the coordinates of the whole story is of course the Ancient House. From this center the axes of all the X's, Y's, and Z's radiate, and recently they have entered into the formation of my whole life.
I walked along the X-axis (Avenue 59) toward the center. The whirlwind of yesterday still raged within me: houses and people upside down; my own hands torturingly foreign to me; glimmering scissors; the sharp sound of drops dripping from the faucet; all this existed, all this existed once! All these things were revolving wildly, tearing my flesh,· rotating wildly beneath the molten surface, there where the "soul" is located.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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