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    Jeff Johns
    “The fantasy of living these experiences was one thing, but having the self-confidence to head out into the world and chase them, to take a great leap into the unknown and trust that the world would catch me, was another thing altogether.”
    ― Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer
    tags: adventure-mindset, brave-choices, chasing-dreams, confidence-journey, fear-to-freedom, into-the-unknown, leap-of-faith, personal-growth, travel-memoir
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    “Such abilities are the true gifts of the spirit, my daughter.”
    ― Candace Lynn Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
    tags: epic-fantasy, fantasy-readers, inner-power, intuition, mind-magic, self-discovery, spiritual-gifts
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    Jennifer Mugrage
    “If you push people, they snap. It’s just like dogs. Or horses.”
    ― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land
    tags: emotional-pressure, hard-won-wisdom, historical-fantasy, human-nature, recovery, relationships, save-this, trauma-truth
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    Susan Rowland
    “Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover to rescue the Scroll’s Key Keeper? Where were the College’s thanks for that?”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: action, betrayal, detective, drama, fiction, investigation, realistic, suspense, thriller
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    Max Nowaz
    “Some days are better than others, for human optimism has no limits.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “One thing that became very clear during my own war service is that those who are actively taking part in war-like activities very seldom hate their former enemies. The reverse is the case with a great respect developing among the veterans, even if they happened to be on opposing sides.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: american-army, dangerous, divided, division, french-army, helpless, humanity, invasion, political, vietnam
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    “Everything is more expensive. There is so much more to do in Madrid, so you’ll have to learn to say no to events so you can study.”
    ― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University
    tags: college-advice, madrid-life, nonfiction, priorities, student-life-balance, study-habits, time-management
    92 likes

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    “The bar staff and croupiers all wore black with the same green triangle logo emblazoned on their shirts, and contact lenses which made their eyes shine an eerie, vibrant green. The bar optics glowed with the same green light, the intensity of which was linked to the music. As the bartender walked away to fetch the drinks, a breakdown in the techno track commenced and the bottles began to palpitate. The bartender's eyes glowed with a hallucinatory felinity that made Mangle feel nervous.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: descriptive-prose, eerie-attraction, hallucinatory
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    K. Ritz
    “The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, engaging, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery
    895 likes

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    Lin Wilder
    “Tipping her head back, he asked, “Do you trust me”
    ― Lin Wilder, Plausible Liars: A Dr. Lindsey McCall Medical Mystery 5
    tags: book-quote, high-tension, protect-and-defend, relationship-moment, suspense-romance-edge, thriller-feels, trust
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    “The World Is Ruled by Numbers”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: ancient-greece, big-ideas, mathematics, mind-and-meaning, pattern-seeking, philosophy, speculative-fiction
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    “There are rules for hiding in plain sight. The first rule, or at least the one that Sandor repeats most often, is “Don’t be stupid.”

    I’m about to break that rule by taking off my pants.”
    ― Pittacus Lore, Nine's Legacy
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Time for you and time for me,
    And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
    And for a hundred visions and revisions,
    Before the taking of a toast and tea.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: poetry
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    James Clavell
    “I prefer the mist that surrounds me. Yes, I don’t like a lot of what I see nowadays.”
    ― James Clavell, Shōgun
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    “Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and thoughtful men, a girl who panicked at the thought of a baby at her breast, or clinging to her ankles.”
    ― Kristin Cashore, Graceling
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    Shannon Hale
    “If I so do my best, may this story be recorded and printed and zipped and zapped into hands and eyes and ears and minds and hearts everywhere, and may it no longer be my story but belong to each reader who drinks it in, to make them bigger or smaller as needed; to fill in those tiny holes and smooth over the rough places; to make them sigh and laugh and dream and wonder; to pass a lonely afternoon or enliven a dull evening; to in every regard do just what a story is supposed to do, which is become whatever each reader needs most at that moment.”
    ― Shannon Hale, A Wonderlandiful World
    tags: narration, story-magic
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    Peter S. Beagle
    “[The unicorn] sighed and plodded on, both amused and disappointed. It serves you right, she told herself. You know better than to expect a butterfly to know your name. All they know are songs and poetry, and anything else they hear. They mean well, but they can’t keep things straight. And why should they, they die so soon.”
    ― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
    tags: butterfly, poetry, songs, unicorns
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