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#1

“Washington reflected bitterly. He was short of money, gunpowder, shot, and food. All he had going for him was The Cause, the Rights of Man. Very noble and all that. But just add a whiff of money, gunpowder, shot, and food, and the old Cause might really click. Congress had pledged more help, of course, which, knowing Congress, meant that the aid might come in a decade or so, after the war was lost. He sighed and gazed heavenward. Was a tiny miracle too much to ask?”
― James Allen Moseley, The Duke of D.C.: The American Dream

tags: drama, dramatic, fight, historical, history, love, mighty, romance, travel, twentieth-century

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#2

“You needed to be taught a lesson. The kind of lesson that binds one man to another man. You removed a valuable commodity from me. A commodity that was going to provide me with a new face.”
― Eli Wilde, My Unbeating Heart

tags: drama, eternal, fiction, historic, new-identity, scary, spine-tingling, thriller, thrilling

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#3

“It wasn’t always that way for the wives of powerful men. Prior to the 1960s, the press generally kept mum about the sex lives of politicians. When Eleanor Roosevelt discovered her husband’s affair by reading a love letter, she kept it to herself — and used it to gain the upper hand in her marriage, which had the additional benefit of setting her free to pursue writing and social activism.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationships

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#4

“We can be beacons of light”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

tags: inspirational

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#5

“If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, detective, fiction, fiction-novel, murder, realistic, thriller

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#6

“One thing I know for certain is that I want to go back in time and save all the people I killed.”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, mystery, past, plot-turns, science, twists, unexpected

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#7

“As the taxi entered the intersection, the two drivers in the attorney general’s entourage slammed on the brakes. Both Suburbans fishtailed out of control. Ducking in the back seat, Blake could smell the burning rubber from tires skidding on the asphalt and hear the pedestrians screaming and car horns sounding off in rebuke.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: clandestine, counterterrorism, drama, justice, legal, novel, plotting, suspense, target

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#8

“If I’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s that life is too short, and there are no guarantees.

But there are second chances, and maybe Noelle is mine.”
― Kendall Ryan, Bossy Brit

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#9

“I know,” I admitted, hating that it was true. “But it is only worth losing some lives if
we can win, otherwise the lives were lost for nothing.”
― Amanda Hocking

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#10

“Ala Moire let out a scream of agony, but as he fell he released a flame of white from his open hand. Armon was engulfed in a white brilliance and experienced a pain he had never felt before in all his dark life. His black robes fell to the floor, and the tattoos on his face faded to grey. Then Armon dissolved in a sheet of white, gone to join his ancestors.”
― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#11

“Rule # 1: keep the crowd’s interest.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

tags: ai, dystopian, fast-paced, future, gripping, human-evolution, literary-fiction, mission, mystery, thrilling

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#12

“The couples learn to distrust what’s said about them in the media and to turn inward toward each other in times of crisis. Dina Matos McGreevey, former wife of New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey wrote, “Yes, I’d once or twice heard the rumor that Jim was gay, but I dismissed it just as I dismissed many other stories, most of which I knew not to be true.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

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#13

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

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#14

“With our beloved prairie voles the female has her ovulation induced by the smell of male urine. It’s a sure sign there’s a male nearby and so her body gets ready for mating. The exact opposite of a human female getting a whiff of urinals in a nightclub and her vagina falling off in disgust”
― Sara Pascoe

tags: sara-pascoe, women-s-humor

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#15

“A freshman congresswoman was demanding an investigation into whoever hacked her Flat Earth support group. It could spell the end of the entire flat planet if the FBI, Homeland Security, and her hometown library couldn’t track the subversive bastards down.”
― William Kely McClung, LOOP

tags: action-packed, ai, clandestine, experiment, fiction, horror, military, suspense, technology, terrifying

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#16

“They remained imprisoned in the CICU, kept alive in physicality by mechanical devices and medicinal support, inexorably suffering. I revered their resiliency, though I struggled to understand whether they were truly resilient or if this was a descriptive term I used to assure myself that what we were doing was just. Could they merely represent physical beings at this point, molecular derivatives of carbon and water, void of souls that had moved on months prior once the universe had delivered their inevitable fate, simply kept alive by us physicians, who ourselves clutched desperately to the most favored of our prehistoric binary measures of success: life?”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: action, burnout, children-s-hospital, drama, healthcare, humour, icu-setting, relationships, stress, trauma

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#17

“We cannot train ourselves to be perfect, but we can ensure we have better intuition when it comes to human behavior.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

tags: break-down-barriers, build-bridges, civil-disclosure, empowering, failures, inspiring, perspectives, social-media, thoughtful

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#18

“He sat in disbelief as the Mission Possible continued its rocking motion farther out to nowhere. He could hear the metronomic slap, slap, slap of water against the boat’s hull. He checked his watch, turned his Yankees cap around, and started the engines. Taking one last look around, he turned the bow of the Bertram back toward shore. Ready or not, it was time for Jake Reid to go home.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: action, action-packed, adventure, anticipation, fascinating, fast-paced-thriller, government, humour, spy-novel

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#19

“God had been orchestrating the events of my life behind the scenes for years, and I had no clue.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: adversity, fulfilling, health, insightful, life, live, personal, purposeful, succeed, transformational

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#20

“That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her.”
― Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

tags: women-and-love

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#21

“Scott could feel the contents of his stomach flip over and over on themselves. He turned to the side and retched, frothy yellow bile spilled out onto the newspaper covered floor, filling the room with the putrid stench of previously ingested alcohol.

'Look's like someone can't hold their drink,' McBlane said, and Dominic and Shugg laughed.

Scott was still staring at the steam rising from his evacuated stomach contents as he heard the hammer fall. The dull crack of bone splintering under its weight.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: murder, prose, visual-moments

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#22

“When her fingers curled to her palm, her husband chased her out before she could say goodbye to her children. She cackles at this memory, a solitary tooth flashing in her mouth like a lone tree in a cemetery. Sankar joins in. Rune puzzles over their strange laughter. The mind must get scarred from being rejected in this manner. These two have died to their loved ones and to society, and that wound is greater than the collapsing nose, the hideous face, or the loss of fingers. Leprosy deadens the nerves and is therefore painless; the real wound of leprosy, and the only pain they feel, is that of exile.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

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#23

“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: humor, religion

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#24

“This was 1941 and I'd been in prison eleven years. I was thirty-five. I'd spent the best years of my life either in a cell or in a black-hole. I'd only had seven months of total freedom with my Indian tribe. The children my Indian wives must have had by me would be eight years old now. How terrible! How quickly the time had flashed by! But a backward glance showed all these hours and minutes studding my calvary as terribly long, and each one of them hard to bear.”
― Henri Charrière, Papillon

tags: prison-break-escape-freedom

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