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#1

“In those happy days before Notre Dame Cathedral burned and Paris streets became thick with electric scooters.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: action, adventure, drama, dramatic, fast-paced, investigation, mystery, thriller

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#2

“Sweet girl, dry your tears. I’ve got a plan.”
― JoDee Neathery, Wings Against The Wind

tags: compassion, emotional-support, hopeful-reads, rescue, second-chances, turning-point, womens-fiction

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#3

“How can I help Mom understand that her value in the real world has nothing to do with her DNA test results?”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

tags: book-club-reads, dna-stories, family-saga, family-secrets, genealogy-fiction, identity, thought-provoking-reads

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#4

“These days I feel empowered by the same disturbing stories that once broke my spirit.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

tags: empowerment, healing-journey, inner-strength, memoir, resilience, self-help, survivor-story, trauma-recovery

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#5

“But the outcome was inevitable: she assumed you would not take no for an answer; she could already see your charming smile morph into the grimace of a rabid dog. To”
― Isham Cook, Lust and Philosophy

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#6

“Bertram scratched his ear. ‘I was made aware of a bit of a ruckus.The bedrooms used in that house were on the second and third floors. I had just cleared two gentlemen from a room on the third floor at Donovan’s request, he then asked me to tidy up the room ahead of the next guests’ arrival. I was doing that when I heard some shouts from a bedroom below.”
― Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer

tags: documented, educational, entertaining, historical-fiction, history-resource, leaders, political-dictatorship, research, veterans

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#7

“The moisture in the air sat in the crevices of storefront windows, like the tears that welled in the corners of her dark brown eyes.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: coming-of-age, emotional-reads, grief, historical-fiction, lyrical-prose, strong-heroine, venice

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#8

“I mean, I’d thought about where I would be in five years, what I wanted, but I guess I didn’t realize I’d already headed down a path.”
― Maria Jane, Perfect

tags: career-women, crossroads, independence-quotes, life-choices, quotes-to-live-by, reflective-reads, self-discovery, womens-fiction, womens-rights

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#9

“But staring at Eclipse of Silence, she couldn’t tell if that safety was strong enough to hold.”
― D.L. Maddox, Stolen

tags: artandcrime, artheist, fiction, grippingbook, illusionofsafety, pageturner, psychological, psychologicalthriller, slowburntension, thriller

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#10

“I’m not trying to scare you, sweetheart. I’m trying to prepare you. I know what men like Preston are capable of. And while I’m really starting to hate the bastard, I have to admit he and I have a couple of things in common. We’re both predators. And we both want you.”
― Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge

tags: action, adventure, conspirices, romance, sex, violence

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#11

“He turned and saw Becky, crying in the doorway of her house. What was he doing here? Turning back he saw flashing blue lights at the end of the road, and realised the ringing in his ears was the sound of approaching sirens.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: impending-doom, reality-check, realization

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#12

“Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”
― Rumi

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#13

“We Are brothers, tied by blood, in our veins, what we spill. But it is a deadly secret that will forever bind us.”
― Tina Traverse, Destiny of the Vampire

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#14

“By the time we were in form three we were fairly skilled researchers and were given permission to spend Wednesday afternoons at the Johannesburg Public Library.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

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#15

“Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.”
― Azar Nafisi

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#16

“The day that robs a child of his parents severs him from his own kind; his head is bowed, his cheeks are wet with tears, and he will go about destitute among the friends of his father, plucking one by the cloak and another by the shirt. Some one or other of these may so far pity him as to hold the cup for a moment towards him and let him moisten his lips, but he must not drink enough to wet the roof of his mouth; then one whose parents are alive will drive him from the table with blows and angry words.”
― Homer

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#17

“We also grew comfortable in silence together. My skin always hummed whenever I was near him, and the tingle of our hands grazing each other as we made our way through the city, or catching his eye on a crowded corner as we found each other again, was always deeply satisfying and secretly thrilling.”
― Brian Selznick, Run Away with Me

tags: first-love

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