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#1

“Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, exciting, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit

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#2

“ Mary fought a savage impulse to slam the door on the couple. But they were too interesting to ignore in the circumstances of the murder. She caught sight of Richard spitting out a mouthful of hair.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, mysterious, mystery, noir-mystery, suspense, tense, thriller

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#3

“There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.”
― Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel

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#4

“More than any other major religion, Islam formalizes the subordination of women. Islamic religious law, as codified by the “official” schools of Sunni Islamic law (the Hanbali, Shafi’i, Hanafi, and Maliki schools), insists on male guardianship over women. In Islam, “any woman must have a ‘guardian,’ wali; her closest male relative if she is unmarried, her husband if she is not.”16 This remnant of seventh-century Arab culture—which has spread through Islam to the other parts of the world that are now Muslim majority—has never been revised in official schools of Islamic law.17 Imams and other Islamic religious leaders today continue to chastise women for disobeying the modesty doctrine. They cite passages in the Quran to assign girls a position in the family that requires them to be docile, to depend on male relatives for money, and to submit to their husband’s dominion over their bodies. Marriage is typically arranged, and there is often an exchange of money in the process. Under the religious rule of Islam, it is still common today that a woman’s rights are essentially sold to a man she may not even know.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

tags: feminism, womens-liberation, womens-rights

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#5

“It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.”
― E. M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: paradox, truth, understanding

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#6

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.”
― Marcel Proust, Days of Reading

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#7

“I am not a yard of ribbon. I am not a leg of ham. I am not for sale to anyone.”
― Philippa Gregory, The White Queen

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#8

“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, mystery, trauma

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#9

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma

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#10

“was it even my own mind making the decisions?”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

tags: adventure-biographies, assassins, biographies, occult, persecution, rape, sex, strip-clubs, tragedy, travel-biographies

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#11

“To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: muse, writing

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#12

“We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.”
― Nelson Mandel

tags: discrimination, gender, poverty, suffering

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#13

“Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, “You are sweet,” and slipped it under the curve of Anne’s arm. Whereupon Anne arose, took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, dropped it on the floor, ground it to powder beneath her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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#14

“and roads, new roads probing endlessly, shamelessly, as though all that mattered was to be elsewhere.”
― Ian McEwan, Amsterdam

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#15

“You knock yourself down. You don't think much of yourself. That's an uncomfortable feeling. So you project it on others and say, 'They don't like me.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

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#16

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality

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#17

“Well, now, Mistress No-English," Sarah spat out, "I don't suppose you've seen a new pair of silver shoes." She looked down at the svelte French woman's feet. "Just about your size, I'd judge.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: action, crime-novel, fiction, murder-thriller, organised-crime, political-thriller, sleuth, suspense-thriller, vigilante-justice, women-s-adventure

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#18

“The phone felt suddenly heavy, like an anchor to a life she was already losing.”
― D.L. Maddox, Reckoning

tags: letting-go, on-the-edge, pressure-point, psych-thriller-feels, suspense, tight-tension

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#19

“She learned that keeping up and working hard paid dividends inside the Pietà, unavailable to women outside it.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: ambition, coming-of-age, growth, historical-fiction, pieta, resilience, self-determination, women-in-history

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#20

“Fairness isn’t about charity. It’s smart business.”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

tags: academic, bias, chemistry, emotional-intelligence, grounded, power-balance, relationship, research, teamwork, workplace-norms

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#21

“Once you experience how rewarding it is to be your true self, flaws and all, without the need to feel guilty or inadequate, you will begin to wonder, ‘Where have I been my whole entire life?”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

tags: authenticity, healing-journey, inner-child-healing, personal-growth, self-discovery, self-worth, trauma-recovery

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#22

“He reached for one of her fidgeting hands, grasping hold. Her eyes met his then faltered, lowered and grazed over his damaged skin. Her gaze burning nearly as deep as the wounds.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

tags: adventure, attitude, excitement, exciting, explore, fast-paced, full-on, gripping, intrigue, thrilling

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#23

“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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#24

“Gentlemen, we must know exactly how many enemy soldiers are facing us.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion

tags: command, earlymedieval, intel, leadership, militaryhistory, strategy, tactics

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#25

“He summoned you into the circle, Scott. For whatever reason, I don't know. But now you've left, you've become a loose thread. He won't sit back with the possibility you might cause his whole world to unravel around him.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: fear, impending-doom, warning

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#26

“There was no point in crying or complaining, only in wondering afresh each dawn at the daily gift of life.”
― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison

tags: goodreads-quotes, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, resilience, uplifting-quotes

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#27

“911. What is your emergency?”
“Dead body.”
“You’ll have to speak up. I can’t hear you.”
“There’s a dead body in the woods!”
“Where are you located?”
“I’m on one of the trails off Summit Road in Wild Oaks Mountain Park. I’m near the summit.”
“Can you be more specific?”
“No, I can’t! Just get someone here!”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

tags: fiction-novel, murder-mystery, murderer

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#28

“Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you!”
― Cassandra Clare , City of Ashes

tags: city-of-ashes, clary-fray, jace-wayland, truth

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#29

“It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not mine. I cannot even decide whether it is handsome or ugly. I think it is ugly because I have been told so. But it doesn't strike me. At heart, I am even shocked that anyone can attribute qualities of this kind to it, as if you called a clod of earth or a block of stone beautiful or ugly.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

tags: beautiful, jean-paul, nausea, reflection, sartre, ugly

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#30

“I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish."
- Lara, from Doctor Zhivago”
― Boris Pasternak

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