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#1

“If god is a myth then why the evil is so fucking real.”
― Yarro Rai, Light and Shadow

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#2

“As we passed the 10th floor, we found ourselves staring down at the city of Atlanta as we moved ever faster towards the 72nd floor. Rudy’s color changed dramatically. His face turned deathly white, which scared the hell out of me. But that was only the beginning. He began screaming, then slid down to the floor and covered his head with both of his arms.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder in Buckhead

tags: action, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller

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#3

“A ray of sunlight poked through the mass of angry clouds.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: action-packed, bloodshed, drama, fight, genetics, love, lovers, sci-fi, thrilling, war

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#4

“We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: acid, love-gone-wrong, love-hurts, poison, reflection

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#5

“This book was under arrest, along with its author. This event occurred on March 27, 1986. During that time, the totalitarian system in East Europe was called socialism and even by the scientific nonsense and absurd names of Communism and Communist system. In this system, the official ideology was allegedly Marxism, but really it could not endure any Marxist criticism. Since this “socialist” system was afraid of the weapon of criticism, it applied criticism of the weapon against its own citizens, as Marx would have said.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: economic-theory, economy, equality, freedom, humanity, liberty, new-government, politics, radical, state

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#6

“What TV is extremely good at—and realize that this is "all it does"—is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.”
― David Foster Wallace

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#7

“Poets and critics alike seek to convert opinion into knowledge, but this means opinion in the legal and not the public sense. What is it you know when you recognize a voice?”
― Harold Bloom, The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

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#8

“Their names are Death, Disease, War, and Sparkle-Darkle Glitter-tits,” Sophie said. “They’re the four little ponies of the Apocalypse.”
― Christopher Moore, Secondhand Souls

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#9

“You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

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#10

“Я имею все гарантии…
Знаете — это иногда меня так пугает, я… я… я иногда боюсь выйти из дому, настолько я всем гарантирован. Когда у меня есть свободное время — а у меня много свободного времени, — я предпочитаю оставаться дома, из страха, как сейчас, как бы это вам объяснить? Это подавленность, кошмар, у меня просто безумный страх от этих гарантий, это словно клаустрофобия, психоз штатного служащего — именно с контрабасом.”
― Patrick Süskind, El contrabajo

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#11

“Relax, Mr. Diggums. Have another nettle beer, or some spring water." The commander took two bottles from the cooler and offered one to Mulch.
Mulch studied the label. "Derrier? No thanks. You know how they put the bubbles in this stuff?"
Vinyaya's mouth twitched with the ghost of a smile. "I thought it was naturally carbonated."
"Yeah, that's what I thought until I got a prison job at the Derrier plant. They employ every dwarf in the Deeps. They made us sign confidentiality contracts."
Vinyaya was hooked. "So go on, tell me. How do they get the bubbles in?"
Mulch tapped his nose. "Can't say. Breach of contract. All I can say is it involves a huge vat of water and several dwarfs using our ...eh" Mulch pointed to his rear end-"... natural talents."
Vinyaya gingerly replaced her bottle.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony

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#12

“Debbie doesn’t want to read a book.”
― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words

tags: kids-books, parents-of-readers, picture-book, reading-feels, reluctant-reader, storytime, teachers-of-instagram

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#13

“I mean, it’s not like any one of you has small kids, which would make it important to be home for Christmas. All this schedule drama just because it’s Christmas!”
― David Øybo, Julebord: The Holiday Party

tags: character-voice, dark-humor, holiday-stress, hospital-fiction, mystery-vibes, sharp-dialogue, winter-read, workplace-drama

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#14

“Somehow, with so much lost it seemed kind of sacrilegious to replace something as silly as those guitars.”
― Laurie Loveman, Memories

tags: book-quotes, character-depth, emotional-reads, grief, healing-journey, letting-go, memory, quiet-pain

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#15

“You won’t be able to start your training either, and you won’t be able to meet your true teacher and return home, Theo, until you defeat your own inner dragon.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: charactergrowth, defeatyourdragon, herowithin, innerwork, metaphysicalfiction, spiritualjourney, thepythagorean

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#16

“The island was working its magic, accepting her as one of its own.”
― Anne Allen, The Ghost of Seagull Cottage: Inspired by The Ghost and Mrs Muir

tags: comfort-read, cozy-fiction, fresh-start, gentle-magic, island-life, seaside-setting, slow-living, small-community

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#17

“Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party for the convenience of the police. It’s like an old-fashioned mystery novel.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

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

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#18

“We cannot choose our rebirth, but we are reborn according to our karma.”
― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick

tags: buddhistthought, educate, karma, learning, secondchances, spiritualfiction, thoughtprovoking, weekendreads, wise

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#19

“Where’s my uncle?” she asked.
“I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place before I bought it, then he’s pushing up daisies.”
“But it can’t be, he’s still young.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fiction, intrigue, magic, mystery, survival, thriller, urban-fantasy, witches

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#20

“Alick grabbed the seat arms tightly, trying to keep tears from his eyes as they backed away from the world he had known.” ”
― J L MARRAIN, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

tags: bittersweet, book-quotes, character-journey, coming-of-age, fantasy, new-beginnings, resilience

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#21

“Through the open drapes behind the nightstand, moonlight pouring through shadowy leaves fell haphazardly on the plastic bag full of shattered memories of his wife. He sat down on the bed, a dark silent gaze spreading over his face. Opening the bag released the flowery scent of licorice and violets—Summer’s signature perfume, Lolita Lempicka. He remembered she always said the aroma reminded her of childhood lullabies, fairies, and magic kingdoms. Matt buried his face in the tattered polo shirt she was wearing that day inhaling the faint trail of his lost love.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

tags: action, anger, drama, favorites, fiction, forgiveness, mystery, pain, suspense, suspense-thriller

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#22

“Plotting murder is as good a topic as any.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: cold-voice, court-intrigue, dark-fantasy, dark-humor, epic-fantasy, fantasy-readers, morally-gray, sharable-quote, wry-line

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#23

“...in divinity opposites are always reconciled.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

tags: duality

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#24

“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

tags: dignity, life, survival

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#25

“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
― Thomas Paine, Works of Thomas Paine

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#26

“All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.”
― William Faulkner

tags: destiny, fate, future, generational, generational-baggage, history, past, present

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#27

“after he found out that they were going to vote for Ronald Reagan, he took his newspaper to Dunkin’ Donuts and never talked to them again. He hated Reagan. I always thought that election had something to do with his getting sick. —”
― Anita Diamant, The Boston Girl

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#28

“If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.”
― Douglas Adams

tags: relativity

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