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#1

“Look at that! The entire Australian kit dates from the 1940s and the uniforms are falling apart at the seams, the fucking boots you have issued to us are the same and everything is rotten. As for bloody weapons, we are issued with the Owen sub-machine gun. While the gun is still a very good weapon, the 9mm ammunition it uses is old WW2 stock and its propellants have deteriorated to the point where I doubt if the round will penetrate the back-pack of a fleeing Noggie!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, historical-fiction, history-resource, research, southeast-asia, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam, war-recount

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#2

“A look of absolute terror locked onto her features.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#3

“It just came out. A laugh. It was a laugh that came straight from my belly. I could not stop it. It came out and kept coming. I was worried that I would wake Gaston, but he did not move. I was in bed, in my pajamas, exhausted, in despair, unsure of where my baby was, and I could not stop laughing.” ”
― Douglas Weissman, Life Between Seconds

tags: adventure, danger, emotional, emotions, family-life, fantasy, literary, literary-fiction, loss

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#4

“When we see a door closed very tight, God sees a window right in our sight.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

tags: be-happy, believe, change, courage, explore, faith, find-yourself, goal-setting, positive, young-readers

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#5

“As she had done when she introduced the US president in Berlin, she addressed him publicly with the informal du for the first time since the NSA controversy in 2013.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: admiration, bonds, controversies, democracy, friends, influential, leaders, policy, research, respec

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#6

“What do you say to a warmongering emperor who has conquered many worlds and displaced thousands of refugees from their homes in the process? Refugees that sought asylum on Uhna. “It’s uh . . .” I pause. I can’t say it’s an honor to meet him when he arrived at my world prepared to blast the corruption away with his armada, along with anyone who happened to be in his way. I focus on his positive traits and say, “You have a nice beard! It looks well established. May I call you Caderyn?” Caderyn scoffs. “No.”
― S.G. Blaise, True Teryn

tags: army, galaxy, gods, guardians, lies, mysterious, sci-fi, secrets, survival, war

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#7

“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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#8

“Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this, Squadron Leader. It was our war, our victory and now it is our Berlin. We tolerate your presence in this city… if that.”
― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

tags: army, battles, danger, destruction, life, secrets, spies, unrest, war

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#9

“young men should not fight in old men’s wars”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

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#10

“Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

tags: vampires

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#11

“Askerlerin kanında bulunan üstün disiplin düşüncesi, doğruluk yetkesini saptırmaya yetmez mi? Disiplin demek boyun eğme demektir.

Ordunun onurundan söz ediliyor bize, onu sevmemiz, ona saygı göstermemiz isteniyor. Evet hiç kuşkusuz, ilk tehditte ayağa kalkacak, Fransız toprağını savunacak olan ordu tüm halktır, ona ancak sevgi ve saygı duyarız. Ama söz konusu o değil, biz de adalet gereksinimimiz içinde onun saygın kalmasını istiyoruz. Belki de yarın bizim elimize verecekleri kılıç sözkonusu, o efendi söz konusu. Kılıcın kabzasını, o tanrıyı dindarca öpmeye gelince, hayır!”
― Émile Zola, The Dreyfus Affair: "J'Accuse" and Other Writings

tags: j-accuse

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#12

“The door opened.
"We're here," said Mrs. Rogers.
Aunt Myra came in.
"Now!" said Amelia Bedelia.
"Greetings, greetings, greetings,"
said the three children.
"What's that about?" said Mrs. Rogers.
"You said to greet Aunt Myra with Carols," said Amelia Bedelia.
"Here's Carol Lee, Carol Green, and Carol Lake."
"What lovely Carols," said Aunt Myra.
"Thank you.”
― Peggy Parish, Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia

tags: humor

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#13

“Can you draw a picture on the blackboard when somebody doesn't want you to? asked the rooster promptly.
"Yes," answered Kenny," if you write them a very nice poem."
"What is an only goat?"
"A lonely goat," answered Kenny.
The rooster shut one eye and looked at Kenny.
"can you hear a horse on the roof?" he asked.
"If you know how to listen in the night," said Kenny.
"Can you fix a broken promise?"
"Yes," said Kenny,"if it only looks broken,but really isn't."
The rooster drew his head back into his feathers and whispered, "What is a very narrow escape?"
"When somebody almost stops loving you," Kenny whispered back.”
― Maurice Sendak

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#14

“There’s only one thing I don’t love about him. Her.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

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#15

“The poor were born survivors, but their equity was bound to the land—dwelling, farm, animals.”
― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison

tags: class-struggle, fiction, historical, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, qing-dynasty, social-history, survival

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#16

“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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#17

“It is time to tell your story without feeling ashamed. This is how you heal.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

tags: emotional-healing, healing-journey, inner-child-healing, memoir, self-worth, survivor-story, trauma-recovery

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#18

“For once he looked at her as if he saw her – an older woman unafraid of blustering men, too assured to play at looking younger. ”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: character-insight, feminist-fiction, midlife-heroine, own-your-power, strong-women, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery

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#19

“No road is long with good company.”
― JoDee Neathery, Wings Against The Wind

tags: companionship, contemporary-fiction, hope, relationship-reads, romance, shareable-quote, warmth

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#20

“A beautiful violin has no value unless someone who loves music plays it.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

tags: book-club-reads, family-saga, inheritance, legacy, literary-fiction, music-in-fiction, violin

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#21

“The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant

tags: inspirational

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#22

“From now on I’ll connect the dots my own way.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: inspirational

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#23

“My conclusion was “Fuck it.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

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#24

“She felt the blows and saw the weapon but ir felt as though it was”
― John Patrick Kennedy, Princess Dracula

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#25

“You need some coffee, don't you?"
"Yes, I've only had a gallon.”
― John Grisham, The Confession

tags: coffee, gallon, need, only, some, yes, you

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