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#1

“We are humiliated and disillusioned once again by our own countrymen because they attempt to trample on us, which increases our isolation and unimportance.”
― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

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

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#2

“The light inside houses was always so golden yellow. Oswald wondered if humans saved up sunshine and piped it through their lamps.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animal, animalstories, childrensbook, fuuny, heartfeltreads, heartwarming, kidlit, middlegrade, pageturner

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#3

“There is a wonderful saying that goes: ‘A person needs, on average, two years to learn to speak and then an entire lifetime to learn to be silent.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: innerpeace, listening, mindfulness, philosophicalfiction, silence, thepythagorean, wisdomquotes

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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

“Just like the myth of the people’s or popular capitalism, which was propagated since the mid1950s in the countries to the west of Berlin Wall, to the east and the north of it, since the same time it was introduced the myth of the people’s or popular socialism. But the suggestion is always the same. Under any “people’s” power—from people’s capitalism to people’s socialism—the greatest illusion suggested to the oppressed classes is that the people are sovereign, i.e., that all the people dominate over themselves. In this respect, even John Kenneth Galbraith makes Marxist conclusions, which even in the Internet epoch have the same power: “Young people are suggested that in a democracy the entire power belongs to the people!” (“The Anatomy of Power”)
Yet, old people know that this is not true!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: class-inequality, division, influence, informative, lower-class, nationalization, social-equality, social-justice, unity, upper-class

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#6

“I prefer death to dishonor for me and my child.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

tags: compelling, danger, different-worlds, escape, fear, intrigue, power, secrets, twists, unexpected

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#7

“ It was a letter that described someone’s misfortunes so vividly that the recipient of the letter would feel better about his or her own misfortunes.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

tags: bookclubreads, compassion, epistolaryvibes, philosophicalfiction, readerswhofeeldeeply, traumaandhealing

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#8

“At seventeen the young woman had worked out how to improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

tags: action, conquest, drama, greed, gunpowder, mysterious, orphan, truth, war, weapon

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#9

“The interior of the Loomis house was silent in a way
that felt deliberate, as though the sound had been swept
up with yesterday’s dust. ”
― D.L. Maddox, Secrets

tags: drama, fantasy, ntense, psychological, psychological-thriller, supernatural, tense, thriller

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#10

“Era un vers din Talmud: ”Cel care salvează o singură viață, salvează întreaga lume.”
― Thomas Keneally

tags: schindlers-list

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#11

“Maybe not for anyone else, but for me, the kind of person I am, writing meant an attempt to sneak up on the truth, to figure it out slowly through the characters on the page.”
― Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature

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#12

“Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.”
― Shirley Jackson

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#13

“... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it”
― Robert Musil

tags: marginal-glosses

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#14

“No need to be afraid. I’m just a Holon.”
“Huh?”
“A Holon. What are you?”
“You mean who am I?” I correct him.
“No, what are you?”
“I’m not a what. I’m a who.”
“How can you be a who if you’re not a what?”
“What?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

tags: alien, brain, middle-grade, science, what, what-are-you, who, who-are-you

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#15

“The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: desperate, hopeful, unusual

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