Ellyn Brookes

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Ellyn’s Quotes

“This guy is poised to kill again, and soon. So I need you to get to Crestview pronto. The clock is ticking.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

tags: crime-thriller, dark-suspense, fbi-profiler, police-procedural, race-against-time, serial-killer-hunt, weekend-reads

329 likes

“I watched her undress with moonlight shivering across the room from behind sheer curtains that moved with the currents from the hearth fire.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

371 likes

“Dressing appropriately can foster connections with locals, enhancing your travel experience.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

tags: connect-through-style, cultural-awareness, cultural-sensitivity, meaningful-travel, respectful-travel, travel-better, travel-etiquette

62 likes

“From up here, the world doesn’t seem so small and confining.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

tags: christian-fantasy, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-journey, goodreads-quotes, hopeful-reads, perspective, perspective-quotes, quote-of-the-day

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“What is interesting about this choice is that Betsy Ross never did anything. Frisch notes that she played “no role whatsoever in the actual creation of any actual first flag.” Ross came to prominence around 1876, when some of her descendants, seeking to create a tourist attraction in Philadelphia, largely invented the myth of the first flag.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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