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    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Silently she stared at the splintered pieces and felt the flame in her soul gutter.  The flame she had nurtured since she was a child. The flame that had in it what little sparks of happiness she had ever known as well as all her hopes and dreams for the future.  She had tended it so carefully and for so long, and in one, horrendous, agonizing second, felt it simply... go out.”
    ― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
    tags: captivating, drama, fiction, fiction-writing, intrigue, literary-romance, romance
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    Susan Rowland
    “But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, murder, psychological, suspense, thriller
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    Sara Pascoe
    “But if you flip this around, the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.
    Hold my bag while I victory-lap.”
    ― Sara Pascoe
    tags: gender, humour
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    Andri E. Elia
    “A celestial wizard doesn’t destroy celestial bodies. She bends them.”
    ― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
    tags: adventure, coming-of-age, fiction, love, mystery, sci-fi, space, space-opera, teen-ya, wizardry
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: ancient-athens, fiction, history, immersive, literature, love, military-campaigns, philosophical
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    K. Ritz
    “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
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    Molly Arbuthnott
    “Paul wasn’t too sure about a half nibbled peanut, quite some parting gift, he thought.”
    ― Molly Arbuthnott, Peanut the Hamster
    tags: bond, friends, happiness, heartbreak, hope, inspiring, loss, love, pets, special-bond
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    Richard Carlson
    “reminding yourself over and over again (with loving kindness and patience) that you have a choice in how you respond to life.”
    ― Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: beast-within, devil
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    Charles Frazier
    “His best talent had yet to be determined, unless you counted unrealized potential.”
    ― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
    tags: nightwoods, potential, talents
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    Robert Jordan
    “Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising
    tags: humor
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    Philip Gourevitch
    “The dead at Nyarubuye were, I'm afraid, beautiful. There was no getting around it. The skeleton is a beautiful thing. The randomness of the fallen forms, the strange tranquillity of their rude exposure, the skull here, the arm bent in some uninterpretable gesture there - these things were beautiful, and their beauty only added to the affront of the place. I couldn't settle on any meaningful response: revulsion, alarm, sorrow, grief, shame, incomprehension, sure, but nothing truly meaningful.”
    ― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
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