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    “Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things have worked out for the best and now we all get to work together,' he said, and a smile spread across his face as easy as a politician's lie.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: blackmail, deception, trapped
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    Joseph A. Anderson
    “Did you splice my—DNA?”
    Hannah puts her hand on the side of his face and looks him square in the eyes. “Your girlfriend was kind enough to let me pull some marrow from her rib, Romeo.”
    ― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b
    tags: biohacking, dna, genetics, lab-life, mad-science, medical-thriller, regenerative-medicine, sci-fi-medicine, stem-cells
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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “After all her years in the Pietà, she had learned the greatest gift she could give them was dispensing words of encouragement that prodded them forward.”
    ― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
    tags: heartfelt-fiction, historical-fiction, mentorship, pieta, purpose, resilience, women-supporting-women
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    Behcet Kaya
    “There were no clues left by the murderer inside the judge’s chambers. No fingerprints. Nothing. The only thing found that was out of the ordinary was a single strand of long auburn hair on the window ledge. A single strand of hair from an unknown female. All dead ends. From my initial perspective, the police were as thorough as they could have been.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge
    tags: crime, dramatic, murder, suspense-fiction, thriller
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    John Edgell
    “From up here, the world doesn’t seem so small and confining.”
    ― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled
    tags: christian-fantasy, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-journey, goodreads-quotes, hopeful-reads, perspective, perspective-quotes, quote-of-the-day
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “I also fear an attack directly upon us which shall be considerably aided by the French colonists! I therefore support your plan to act first and stage a preemptive strike against the French by launching “Operation Bright Moon”, which is now the code name for the Japanese coup d ětat which will disarm the Vichy French Forces by or during the 9th of March 1945!”  

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war
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    “A uniformed cop around 6’4” with pock marked face squinted, “Looky here, if it ain’t one a the bad seed O’Shaughnessy’s, female version.”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: action, adventure, drama, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, mystery, thriller
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    Rick Riordan
    “I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
    tags: leo-valdez, rick-riordan, the-mark-of-athena
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    Leon Uris
    “We once again man the barricades -- alone. Berated by our smug, so-called allies, of the Western Democracies. Islam is going to turn this world inside out before this century is out and you'd better have enough guts to deal with it.”
    ― Leon Uris, The Haj
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    Anne Brontë
    “I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.”
    ― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
    tags: life, life-experience, past
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    E.B. White
    “English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.”
    ― E.B. White
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    Władysław Szpilman
    “The armbands branding us as Jews did not bother us, because we were all wearing them, and after some time living in the ghetto I realized that I had become thoroughly used to them – so much so that when I dreamed of my Aryan friends I saw them wearing armbands, as if that white strip of fabric was as essential a part of the human wardrobe as a tie.”
    ― Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist
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    Esther Forbes
    “We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.”
    ― Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
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