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    Robert Reid
    “My Lady, one of the rumours in the inns gives the wizard a name. Adun, a disinherited Aramin child from an ancient myth, supposedly arisen after hundreds of years from his grave in the Doran Mountains. It stuck me as a strange coincidence that the child’s name was so like the name of the Captain of the Swan.”
    Robert Reid – The Son”
    ― Robert Reid, The Son
    tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy
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    Ashby Jones
    “Being born upside-down was just the first irony in Suzanne's life, a forewarning that her struggle with existence had just begun.”
    ― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird
    tags: characterdriven, comingofage, existentialfiction, historicalfiction, literaryfiction, readerswhofeeldeeply
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    “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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    Gary Clemenceau
    “Before and behind me, nothing but infernal things were made and sold, and I endured inbetween, infernally.”
    ― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity
    tags: bleakhumor, consumerculture, darkhumor, literaryfiction, mood, urbangothic
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    “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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    Max Nowaz
    “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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    Sybrina Durant
    “Follow along at home to tie a bow just like the fox. Go find a scarf or ribbon that will fit around your waist or try these moves with your shoe laces.”
    ― Sybrina Durant, Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story
    tags: artistic, bed-time-story, bows, cognitive-functioning, educational, great-gift-books, learning-to-read, montessori, picture-book
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    Theasa Tuohy
    “They both start with a B. Do you think Baudelaire sounds like Bernhardt?" Her niece eyed her for a moment, then shook her head. "Mommy always says you say the strangest things.”
    ― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth
    tags: curiosity, drama, exhilarating, fiction, fiction-novel, investigator, mystery, sleuth, thriller
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    K. Ritz
    “If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery
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    “He used his large shoulders and movements to impose his dominance over others as he strutted around but his facial expressions were a giveaway to people like Maeve who was born into a gritty group of native born fighting Irish. While many saw him as a man who worked his way up to power and influence and attained success that others fail to achieve, she saw him as a sham. He didn’t acquire loyalty by goodwill, but by corruption, fear, and loathing.”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, noir-mystery, suspense, thriller
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    O. Henry
    “You sold a story last week," said Pettit, "about a gun fight in an Arizona mining town in which the hero drew his Colt's .45 and shot seven bandits as fast as they came in the door. Now, if a six-shooter could—"

    "Oh, well," said I, "that's different. Arizona is a long way from New York. I could have a man stabbed with a lariat or chased by a pair of chaparreras if I wanted to, and it wouldn't be noticed until the usual error-sharp from around McAdams Junction isolates the erratum and writes in to the papers about it." (from "The Plutonian Fire")”
    ― O. Henry, Selected Stories
    tags: humor, western
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    Homer
    “Weapons themselves can tempt a man to fight.”
    ― Homer, The Odyssey
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    Mark Twain
    “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Joseph Campbell
    “The secret cause of all suffering,” he said, “is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life. It cannot be denied if life is to be affirmed.”
    ― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
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    Tom Robbins
    “If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being--ever mindful of its personal style.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
    tags: artistry, conformity, future, history, mainstream, new-orleans, past, present, time, timelessness
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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more you read, the more things you will know.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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