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#1

“Jeffrey didn’t have long to live.”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

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

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#2

“Too many people think the ends justify the means. They should all be shot!” said the President.”
― James Allen Moseley, The Duke of D.C.: The American Dream

tags: agents, comic, fbi, fight, humour, love, parody, perish, truth, war

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#3

“Are you really a reporter?” asked Brown. “You already asked me that. Come back to Levita, take the pardon.”  “I doubt I’ll live long enough to get there,” said Brown bitterly. “I hope you survive. You are a fighter. And we have the antidote for your habit on Levita. I suggest you take a vacation. There’s nothing much that’s going to happen here.” With that she left, leaving Brown more confused than ever. He was a father, he had a son. And, the Levitians had a cure for his drug-addled body.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: contemporary-fiction, intrigue, manipulation, mystery, suspense, thriller

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#4

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

tags: inspirational, love, self-help, survivor

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#5

“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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#6

“Pretty isn’t permanent.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

tags: action, crime, drama, exciting, murder-thriller, past, suspicion

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#7

“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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#8

“The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

tags: journalism

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#9

“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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#10

“People sometimes spend thousands of dollars treating fish they won at the fair or bought for less than $5. Because they love them.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2015: Rebecca Skloot's Anthology of Award-Winning Essays on Our Planet's Challenges and Wonders

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#11

“I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-"
"The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad.
"If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself."
He nods in understanding.
"And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?"
I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

tags: family, father, forgiveness, gemma-doyle, kartik, love, mistake

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#12

“I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously . . . And now I seek my hatred and cannot seem to find it. I feel its flame going out as I come to understand [its] existence . . . It would be difficult for me to avenge all those who should be avenged, because my revenge would be just another part of the same inexorable rite. I have to break that terrible chain. I want to think that my task is life and that my mission is not to prolong hatred but simply fill these pages . . .”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

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#13

“If you spend your whole life being someone else, who will be you?”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

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#14

“It was Merlin’s first time in the Reform Club but he could see instantly it was cast in a similar mould to the various other London gentlemen’s clubs he had been obliged to visit before in the course of his duties. He had never been able to understand the attraction of these gloomy places, where upper-class, middle-aged and elderly men hid themselves away behind rustling newspapers or dozed in dark rooms full of heavy leather armchairs splattered with cigarette ash and drink stains.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

tags: action-filled, discovery, english-military, facts, fiction, lies, literature, research, secrets

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#15

“The created a displacement devise that separated solids into fragmented molecules.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: courage, curiosity, engrossing, exploration, hope, mortality, plots, quantum, sorrow, survival

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#16

“The thin line between love and hate is self-deception.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

tags: adventure, crime, death, fascinating, law, murder, revenge, thrillers, tragedy

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#17

“This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, antasy, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery

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#18

“But before I could pull back onto the highway, the blue and red flashing lights of a police cruiser lit up behind me. I watched as the officer, wearing a mask, approached.
He motioned for me to put on a mask and open my window. How could I put on a mask? I didn’t have one. I mouthed, no mask.
He pulled one out of his uniform jacket pocket. One of those despicable thin blue paper masks. Now what the hell good was that going to do either of us?”
― Behcet Kaya, Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel

tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, noir-mystery, suspense, thriller

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#19

“(Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.)”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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#20

“There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.”
― Annie Dillard

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#21

“The best friends of our childhoods are the loves of our lives, and they break our hearts in worse ways.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

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#22

“The dark circle became a dot on the moon-flooded snow as Spitz disappeared from view.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

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#23

“Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it.”
― Katherine Paterson, The Flint Heart

tags: everyone-belongs, everyone-in-the-world

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#24

“My mother’s suffering grew into a symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful, baffling, hunger-ridden days and hours; the restless moving, the futile seeking, the uncertainty, the fear, the dread; the meaningless pain and the endless suffering. Her life set the emotional tone of my life, colored the men and women I was to meet in the future, conditioned my relation to events that had not yet happened, determined my attitude to situations and circumstances I had yet to face. A somberness of spirit that I was never to lose settled over me during the slow years of my mother’s unrelieved suffering, a somberness that was to make me stand apart and look upon excessive joy with suspicion, that was to make me self-conscious, that was to make me keep forever on the move, as though to escape a nameless fate seeking to overtake me.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

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