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#1

“It was disheartening to read this sentence in a travel blog. Just including it here makes me cringe: "Sneakers and even sweatpants are acceptable attire everywhere, even in upscale or fancy restaurants." What has become of us? When did travellers transform into the people always in workout gear? What happened to the days when embarking on a journey was an occasion that warranted dressing with pride?”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: classy-woman, style-quotes, travel, wisdom

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#2

“The colors were brighter, the air was fresher, and the flowers more beautiful than any that the teens had ever seen.”
― J.L. Marrain, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

tags: beautiful-places, escapist-reads, fantasy, nature-magic, portal-fantasy, sense-of-wonder, worldbuilding, ya

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#3

“Information becomes knowledge only when it finds an application in real life.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: apply-it, growth-mindset, life-lessons, philosophical-fiction, practical-learning, self-improvement, wisdom

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#4

“The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty, and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to make up its mind.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, historical-fantasy, magic, occult, supernatural, teenagers, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal, young-adult

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#5

“Clarity of purpose often comes from wandering through mistakes”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: am-writing, author-quotes, creative-process, fail-forward, growth-mindset, revision-life, writer-life, writers-of-instagram, writing-community, writing-quote

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#6

“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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#7

“Her quiet sobs were absorbed into the aria of their voices, their protection and love enveloping her pain and carrying her song.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: community, found-family, grief, historical-fiction, hopeful-moments, lyrical-prose, music, venice

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#8

“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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#9

“For once he looked at her as if he saw her – an older woman unafraid of blustering men, too assured to play at looking younger. ”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: character-insight, feminist-fiction, midlife-heroine, own-your-power, strong-women, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery

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#10

“I cannot change the past, but today and every day to come, I will strive to be the best human I can be. I ask for your forgiveness in that light.”
― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege

tags: accountability, forgiveness, healing, human-growth, moral-reckoning, nonfiction, powerful-reads, redemption, restorative-justice, second-chances

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#11

“If we had some cheese, we could have a ham-and-cheese sandwich,” replies Father Captain de Soya, “if we had some ham.”
― Dan Simmons, Endymion

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#12

“The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

tags: law, odyssey, reader

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#13

“The dismantling of the vast and wholly parasitic armaments industry had given an unprecedented—sometimes, indeed, unhealthy—boost to the world economy. No longer were vital raw materials and brilliant engineering talents swallowed up in a virtual black hole—or, even worse, turned to destruction. Instead, they could be used to repair the ravages and neglect of centuries, by rebuilding the world.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three

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#14

“Arkansas”
― Wilson Rawls, Summer of the Monkeys

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#15

“monsters of selfishness and exploitation. To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all. The reception of aesthetic power enables us to learn how to talk to ourselves and how to endure ourselves.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

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