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#1

“What makes you think he’s done this before? He’s not been prosecuted. I’d bet the church could even bury prosecutions if it wants to . . .”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal of Faith

tags: abuse-of-power, child-abuse, church, cover-up, emotional, justice, peadophilia, priest, religion, sexual-abuse

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#2

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance

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#3

“I worked hard at fitting in and becoming an American, but then I discovered that being an American was not enough. I had to be a Black American because that’s how Americans, especially whites, saw me.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

tags: biographical-novel, deep, friendship, love, sadness, self-discovery, separation, traumatic-childhood, trilogy

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#4

“God didn’t send his one and only son to earth just to make sure we brush our teeth, say our prayers, and help little old ladies across the street. Jesus came here for a purpose much greater than that. He came to change our hearts and minds, and his message was revolutionary.”
― Spencer C Demetros, The Bible: Enter Here: Bringing God's Word to Life for Today's Teens

tags: biblical-message, book-of-god, christian, christianity, faith, find-god, humour, love, teens, young-adult

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#5

“Beef had hit $300 a kilo. Not that he could recall the last time he’d tasted real beef.”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

tags: adventure, colonization, cyberpunk, epic, original, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, space, thriller

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#6

“It is an historical fact that you and I have a problem doing the right thing, for others and for ourselves. Yet, we deny it fiercely or wallow in shame, neither of which God wants for us.”
― Randy Loubier, Slow Brewing Tea

tags: christianity, gods-power, guidance, healing, love, reflection, religion-and-philoshophy, spirtitual-growth

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#7

“Maybe it actually was worth the hassle to be a nonconformist? I am sick of being told what I should wear on my body.”
― Crystal Raven, Virtual Mirrors: First Journal

tags: compelling, empowerment, engrossing, erotica, erotica-romance, futuristic, sexual, sexual-fantasy, sexy

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#8

“So why not a woman, too—if I was dating her?”
― M S M Barkawitz, Feeling Lucky

tags: crime, crime-thriller, dark, fast-paced, murder, mystery, noir-fiction, thriller

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#9

“My initial impression of her had been totally wrong. The impression that she was this sweet and stunningly beautiful Vietnamese girl who had survived a difficult time in her life, and was, perhaps, still vulnerable. But, now it was different. She was nothing but a paid whore. It took me a moment to analyze it. Totally against my character, but I realized, if only for a fleeting instant, I wanted to take this whore to bed, even though there would be no spice of pursuit, and it would generate no particular tension between us.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

tags: crime-fiction, murder-mystery, private-investigator

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#10

“Anger held inside becomes hate.”
― Gary Chapman

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#11

“My will and my desire were both revolved, as is a wheel in even motion driven, by Love, which moves the sun and other stars.”
― Dante

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#12

“Life’s a bitch, and then you die.”
― Tom Clancy, Locked On

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#13

“Don’t come early in the morning Neither in the heat of the day But come in the sweet cool of the Evening and wash my sins away”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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#14

“You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

tags: inspirational, motivational

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#15

“They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif had been conceived.”
― Irving Stone, Lust for Life

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#16

“… Exhausting climbs lay ahead. It was Sunday … May 17th … The path seemed to climb from dawn till dusk, the rain poured down nearly all day. The mud was worse than ever, and more slippery. Maggie, the elephant, was heavily laden, and at one time it seemed hopeless to expect her to struggle up those towering hills … as the light was going we reached the camp, we found it only a huddle of shelters already occupied on a hill-top 4000 ft high, across which a cold wind swept … Dr Russell”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

tags: classified, courageous-leadership, exhausted-elephant, hidden-agendas, inside-story, military-leaders, miscommunication, nagumo, planes

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#17

“A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris had stopped again, his silhouette a stark black juxtaposition against the background of illuminated branches.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: descriptive-prose, visual-moments

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#18

“Just like the myth of the people’s or popular capitalism, which was propagated since the mid1950s in the countries to the west of Berlin Wall, to the east and the north of it, since the same time it was introduced the myth of the people’s or popular socialism. But the suggestion is always the same. Under any “people’s” power—from people’s capitalism to people’s socialism—the greatest illusion suggested to the oppressed classes is that the people are sovereign, i.e., that all the people dominate over themselves. In this respect, even John Kenneth Galbraith makes Marxist conclusions, which even in the Internet epoch have the same power: “Young people are suggested that in a democracy the entire power belongs to the people!” (“The Anatomy of Power”)
Yet, old people know that this is not true!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: class-inequality, division, influence, informative, lower-class, nationalization, social-equality, social-justice, unity, upper-class

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#19

“She raised the gun.
Fired.
The sound cracked through the cabin like a door
slamming on the past.”
― D.L. Maddox, Secrets

tags: drama, ense, excitement, fiction-novel, fictional, horror, psychological-thriller, redemptive, self-actualisation, thriller

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#20

“#metooasachild”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

tags: metooasachild

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#21

“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

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#22

“My greatest pleasure has been in resuming my evening walks along the cliff tops. The Channel is no longer framed in rolls of barbed wire, the view is unbroken by huge VERBOTEN signs. The mines are gone from our beaches, and I can walk when, where, and for as long as I like. If I stand on the cliffs and turn out to face the sea, I don't see the ugly cement bunkers behind me, or the land naked without its trees. Not even the Germans could ruin the sea.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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#23

“To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.

[author's dedication]”
― Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary

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#24

“I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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#25

“Of course killing Iraqis for Jesus so we can get their oil...”
― Vincent Panettiere, Shared Sorrows

tags: drama, fiction, fiction-novel, guilt, love, mystery-novel, redemption, romance, sorrow, suffering

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#26

“The excitement of the festivities escalated along with the darkening skies of winter, providing the perfect backdrop of secrecy and seduction that Venice was known for.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: atmospheric, beautiful-writing, carnival-season, historical-fiction, intrigue, romantic-tension, venice, winte-rmood

174 likes

#27

“The blast of hot air lifted Tazeem from his feet and threw him onto his back in the road. He blinked up into the night sky; raindrops glowed orange as they fell towards the earth.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: descriptive-prose, explosion

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#28

“Colonel Aubertin and his two colleagues sat on a park bench in the private garden of Dorset Square. Rougemont sat between his two superiors, pleased that for once the commandant appeared to have had an abstemious lunch. “Major Vane-Stewart was telling me the other day that this was once the site of the first important cricket ground in London, established by the same Thomas Lord who later built the famous ground that bears his name, a few miles to the north of us in St. John’s Wood. There is a plaque recording this fact in that shed over there. In the middle of the square.”
“Cricket.” Angers spat out the words with disgust. “A stupid game played by idiots. Only the English could invent such a boring name.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

tags: defeat, destroy, hidden-secrets, history, insight, insightful, momentous, truth, victory, war

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#29

“This is biodiversity: a delicate web of life that we are slowly and systematically dismantling.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

tags: biodiversity, climate-awareness, ecology, environmental-nonfiction, nature-writing, planetary-boundaries, planetary-destruction, planetary-health

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#30

“Father Jakob mentioned to her that military men took it personally when women at home were assaulted. They were away fighting for their country and they believed the men left behind had an obligation to take care of and protect the women on the homefront. Maeve knew from experience women mostly had to take care of themselves.”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

tags: death, domination, gang-warfare, gender-roles, historical-mysteries, history, killing, mentally-abusive, murder, pi

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