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#1

“You arrogant, insufferable asshole; you scared me to death. If I hadn’t been so afraid that you were already dead, I’d have killed you myself.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: danger, dark, drama, erotica, exciting, fear, fiction, love, romance, violence

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#2

“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

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#3

“I knew Dad was concerned about my past associations. I was from the Trash Alley. It was my community. I hung out with thugs from the Frog Bottom, the Burns Bottoms, the Red Line, the S-Curve, the Sandfield, the Morning Side, and a bunch of other places that shall remain nameless. I knew all of the “Legends of the Hood”: Sin Man, Swap, Boo Boo, Emp-Man, Cookie Man, Shank, Polar Bear, Bae Willy, Bae Bruh, Skullhead Ned, Pimp, Crunch, and Goat Turd (just to name a few). I thought maybe Dad had summoned me as a “show and tell” for the kids in his neighborhood—the hardliner to scare those wayward suburban brats back into reality.”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

tags: chaos, deeper-understanding, dysfunctional-families, family, family-humour, life-lessons, struggle, trauma, truth

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#4

“Whether you are on day one of being a Christian or day fifteen thousand, you should always have a teachable heart before God.”
― Kathryn Krick, The Secret of the Anointing: Accessing the Power of God to Walk in Miracles

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#5

“Light flashed in her eyes. In fact, it clung to her—flaring around her skin, her hair, her whole body. It was a trick of the eyes, his mind, when adrenaline hit his system. But she glowed. Vivid. Alive. And for a moment, he’d have given anything to be like her.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

tags: compelling, drama, friends, friendship, humorous-fiction, journey, romantic-comedy, romcom, steamy-romance, suspensful

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#6

“Across Ackar and Lett, the ordinary folk were tired of the wars of aggression of the Dewar dynasty. They had lost too many fathers, brothers and sons on foreign soil. It was clear that the new King was no warrior, and most of the population thought that a good thing. Maybe for the first time in generations they could have a good king rather than a warrior king.
I now commit as my coronation promise that whilst I am King, no armies from Ackar and Lett will seek domination over our neighbours. The treaties are written in ink. I will now seal them with my blood.”
― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

tags: aggression, army, death, drama, fight, king, power, thriller, war, warrior

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#7

“We all care about what others think. Those that say the don’t will ponder how others feel about that. ”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: barriers, be-proud, chase-dreams, conquering, dreamer, life, love, respect, smile, soar

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#8

“Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
            Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit

927 likes

#9

“All the deep-diving studies show that women are superior for submerged operations. They're physically smaller and consume less nutrients and air, they have better social skills and tolerate close quarters better, and they are physiologically tougher and have better endurance.”
― Michael Crichton, Sphere

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#10

“He felt not hungry, not thirsty, not tired, not even remotely bored, simply above all physical concern, in communion with the movement of time and the world’s steady turning, and he wondered if this was how it felt to be immortal, to know that life had a definite vessel, a tangible purpose: caretaker and courier of the rare, the valuable, the beloved.”
― David Wroblewski, Familiaris

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#11

“hear anything about my lessons. When I try to show her Charlene’s numbers from The Pajama”
― Rebecca Wells, Little Altars Everywhere

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#12

“Beene-beene. The truest truth.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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#13

“I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.

--from "Cut", written 24 October 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

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#14

“A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

tags: happiness

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#15

“Handled properly, a single resolved mistake can build more trust than a hundred flawless transactions.”
― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

tags: brand-credibility, business-growth, customer-experience, customer-trust, leadership, marketing-nonfiction, memorable-insight, service-recovery

86 likes

#16

“I had come to Europe looking to learn about love and life—and men.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

tags: adult-romance, book-quotes, coming-of-age, love-and-life, self-discovery, travel-reads, wanderlust-books

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#17

“The light inside houses was always so golden yellow. Oswald wondered if humans saved up sunshine and piped it through their lamps.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animal, animalstories, childrensbook, fuuny, heartfeltreads, heartwarming, kidlit, middlegrade, pageturner

43 likes

#18

“Attached to each arm, as well as the skirt, they looked like an attempt to grow wings. ”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: art-and-magic, ballet-aesthetic, dark-fairytale-vibes, goodreads-quotes, lyrical-prose, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery

154 likes

#19

“No matter what happens, it’s all for the best!”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: hope, mindset-shift, optimism, philosophical-fiction, quote-of-the-day, resilience, self-care

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#20

“When people grow up in a home where extramarital sex is condoned, they’re much less likely to regard it as a deal-breaker. Jacqueline Bouvier’s father, ‘Black Jack,’ confided in her about his female conquests, even going so far as to play a game with Jackie when he visited her at boarding school. She would point to a classmate’s mother, and Jack would respond, ‘Yes’ or ‘Not yet’ — answering the silent question, had he slept with that one?”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationships

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#21

“He was on the lookout, and if the chance presented itself, he was going to be off on a little detour of his own during his cruise back to Earth.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: adventure-vibes, escape-plan, going-rogue, plot-driven, science-fiction, space-travel, suspense-reads

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#22

“He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

tags: loss, personhood

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#23

“They all shared a certain coolness, a cruel, mannered charm which was not modern in the least but had the strange cold breath of the ancient world : they were magnificent creatures, such eyes, such hands, such looks - sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#24

“You, of course, are a rose--
But were always a rose.”
― Robert Frost, You Come Too

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#25

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
― Carl Sagan

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#26

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: independent-thought, thinking

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#27

“Get busy mother f---er!”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

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