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#1

“Had our concepts of sexuality been developed in a female-dominated society, our data shows it is not wild to think that sexuality would be viewed from the perspective of a preference for dominant versus submissive partners and not gender preference in partners (in such a world, there is a chance that gender preference would be as much of an afterthought as preferences for dominance or certain hair colors are today).”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist's Guide to Sexuality

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#2

“While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she was eating or the chilblains on her hands and feet. She was suffering inside.”
― Tracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures

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#3

“Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia

tags: inspirational, mythology, parting

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#4

“What on earth shall I do”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

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#5

“Life is like a bowl of spaghetti.
Every once in a while, you get a meatball.”
― Sharon Creech

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#6

“there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions.”
― Iain Banks, Whit

tags: comfort, devils, fault, fear, responsibility, sin, the-devil

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#7

“I know that look, seeing a dead body for the first time, you never quite get used to it…”
― Cade Mengler, The Companions

tags: action, charisma, degrading, destiny, forces-of-good, internal-struggles, journey, malevolence, sword-and-sorcery-fantasy, warrior

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#8

“ Illicit flight Alfa Bravo Charlie quickly reached a predetermined altitude and stopped dead. The passengers on board screamed the way people do on fairground rides. The shuttle hesitated momentarily and then shot forward accelerating rapidly to reach a blistering 145,222 miles per hour. They were in a Mach 22 situation. The cries from on-board could not be heard from the ground. Neither did anyone in the great metropolis of Llar witness the bright blue vapour trail the craft left behind in its wake. It was after all overcast and raining heavily.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

tags: adventure, drama, dystopian, fantasy-novel, fast-paced, full-on, funny, gripping, magical, wars

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#9

“No one can make you feel inferior unless you allow them to.”
― Sherman Kennon

tags: inspiration, inspirational-quotes

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#10

“Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: christmas, life, musings, poisoned

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#11

“Next morning, while her children were still asleep in their tent, Evie got up early. The acorn she had planted the day before had sprung to life and was nearly ten feet high. Sitting on the fallen log where the forest boy had sat thirty years earlier, she listened. There was no dancing partner. Maybe she was now too old, but the oak trees did sing for her.”
― Robert Reid, The Empress:

tags: adventure-fiction, discovery, fighting, grit, heroes, suspense, throne, unpredictable, unrest, weapons

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#12

“Now I gazed out of my office window. Slowly the world was changing from old-gold to the deep purple which, in the words of that dreamy song Mum was fond of humming, bathes garden walls under the twinkle of starlight.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: childhood-memories, dark, death, drama, emotional, emotions, loss, memories, thriller

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#13

“Puff, puff, chug, chug, went the Little Blue Engine. “I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can.”

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“I thought I could. I thought I could. I thought I could.

I thought I could.

I thought I could.

I thought I could.”
― Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could

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#14

“Ye see, Little Tree, ain't no way of learning, except by letting ye do. Iff'n I had stopped ye from buying the calf, ye'd have always thought ye'd ought to had it. Iff'n I'd told ye to buy it, ye'd blame me fer the calf dying. Ye'll have to learn as ye go.”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

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#15

“Always pat fish dry before cooking.”
― Irma S. Rombauer, Joy of Cooking

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#16

“That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

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#17

“Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

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#18

“Their temporary home filled with the scent of soup, ink and fresh paper and the reassuring harmonic vibration of piano strings.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

tags: bookclubreads, familysaga, historicalfiction, literaryfiction, motherdaughter, musicinfiction, quietmoments

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#19

“The more you harvest, the quicker and easier it becomes”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: advice, allotments, fruits, harvest, herbs, informative, organic, plants, tips, vegetables

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#20

“This tiny patch of rocky ground took up an immense amount of space in the minds of millions of people, as it had for millennia.”
― N.S. Wikarski, The Arkana Mysteries: Omnibus Three: Books 6-8

tags: archaeology-adventure, historical-thriller, jerusalem, political-suspense, suspense, thriller

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#21

“it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

tags: reality

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#22

“Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.”
― Isaac Asimov, Robot Visions

tags: female-intelligence, human-intelligence, intuition, women-s-intuition

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#23

“We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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#24

“Unconditional Love conquers all!”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

tags: inspirational, love

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#25

“It feels ... as though doors were opening all over the world... It's bigger, somehow, the world.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

tags: love

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