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#1

“He was sure people detested accountants; they were boring. In fact, he had put down his profession as an airline pilot on the form he had filled in for a dating agency. As an airline pilot you could be away just the right amount of time, when you needed a break from your love life, without facing awkward questions from her when you got back.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

361 likes

#2

“The truth has a way of coming out of the closet.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action-packed, drama, genetics, gripping, love, political, science-fiction, supremacist, thrilling, war

171 likes

#3

“Ackx must have owed him big time,鈥� Q said in his drawly Clint Eastwood voice. 鈥淎 favour like that doesn鈥檛 come cheap.鈥�
Bonnyman spat into the fire. 鈥淎 favour like that is only made between psychosis and a lust for power.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

tags: action, british-and-irish-horror, creatures, death, friendship, ghost, ghost-fiction, ghost-thriller, horror, suspense

44 likes

#4

“When you call a ghetto a cordon, does it become a village?”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

tags: action, adventure, coming-of-age, drama, fantasy-novel, fiction, sci-fi-adventure, space-opera

135 likes

#5

“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again鈥攖he fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was farther away. She swung her head around鈥攕o was the shore.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: battles, classical-struggles, drama, family-life, hierarchy, naval-battles, passion, philosophical, rebellion

880 likes

#6

“It became increasingly common to resolve international tensions by legal means. The chant 鈥淐riminal Trials, Not Missiles鈥� became prevalent after its use in my first State of the Union address. Nice ring to it.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

tags: democracy, diplomacy, entertaining, fast-read, government, historical-fiction, policy, political-goals, succinct, witty

76 likes

#7

“Tu comprends... ce billet, - c'茅tait tr猫s 茅mouvant:
Je me suis fait pleurer moi-m锚me en l'茅crivant.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

tags: funny, pleurer, poet, writing, 茅肠谤颈谤别

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#8

“Jake鈥檚 shirt and jeans gave off a business vibe with the hint of a wide range of corporate occupations from sales to IT. Only politicians and real estate agents wore a suit and tie these days. Dressed to push an agenda. A man wearing a two-piece suit and tie would be remembered and many people became guarded, sus of the wearer鈥檚 intention. Guarded meant memorable.
Blend into the environment; do not stick out.”
― Simon W. Clark, Dead Mercenary's Trail

tags: action, betrayal, conspiracy, covert, disguises, espionage, international-locations, political-thriller, spy-thriller, technothriller

104 likes

#9

“Tutto va Bene, All is Well.”
― Sharon Creech, Granny Torrelli Makes Soup

tags: calmness, live-in-the-moment

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#10

“But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can鈥檛 afford to see no doctors?”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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#11

“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

tags: accidents, belief, fate, luck, religion

112 likes

#12

“When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: the-phantom-tollbooth

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#13

“What's that Einstein quote about expecting different results from the same person? I shouldn't feel bad - I'm here, aren't I, I'm not the parent who didn't even text. Or the one who locked themselves in their bedroom half of Christmas. Talking like this, it's become clear that we are the main parts. This has all been about us, the sisters. I hadn't realised. I tell my mouth not to share these thoughts and Dana offers me another cigarette.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo: 'Intense, also BRILLIANT, funny and forensically astute.' Marian Keyes

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#14

“Chase stared into the fire. That look, those eyes would haunt the mercenary for a while鈥ccasionally, now and then, there was a kill that stayed with the mercenary, and he had just experienced another one of those.”
― Cade Mengler, The Companions

tags: difficult, fantasy-horror, fate, fight, forces-of-evil, horror, knowledge, magical-knowledge, memories, sword

39 likes

#15

“Before I started killing people, I like to think I was a fairly normal kid.”
― Alan Bradley

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#16

“In Esimore, Sulux was returning from tending to the herd as it grazed the summer pastures. The lone traveller was dressed in light blue clothing that shimmered white in the evening sun. The old prophesies had finally been fulfilled.”
― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

54 likes

#17

“Now I gazed out of my office window. Slowly the world was changing from old-gold to the deep purple which, in the words of that dreamy song Mum was fond of humming, bathes garden walls under the twinkle of starlight.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: childhood-memories, dark, death, drama, emotional, emotions, loss, memories, thriller

139 likes

#18

“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: excuse, life, musings, photos, writers, writers-life

173 likes

#19

“The most banal insights are often the most important. Like the realisation that we have one life, only one, and that we have to take care of it.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, I Always Find You

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#20

“You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

tags: time

165 likes

#21

“No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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#22

“Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do.
Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones

tags: humor, leadership

176 likes

#23

“I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

1183 likes

#24

“I love a happy ending. They are so rare.”
― Stephenie Meyer

148 likes

#25

“When oppressed and lost people see your supernatural life shining so bright, they are attracted! They are attracted to the Jesus in you.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

tags: attraction, faith, god, good-and-evil, hope, inner-peace, jesus, love, self-growth, shining

119 likes

#26

“I said, leave her alone!鈥� Her saviour was a slim young man with blonde hair tied back in a pony tail, and even in the gloom his eyes seemed to burn with ice-cold intensity.”
― Robert Reid, The Thief

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

40 likes

#27

“聽 When we鈥檙e together, I feel like the sun just came out on a cloudy day.”
― Dawn Chalker, Lost and Found

tags: emotions, exciting, feelings, frienships, happiness, life, love, passion, romance, togetherness

125 likes

#28

“This world would be a pleasant place if people didn鈥檛 inhabit it.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, engaging, exciting, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery

601 likes

#29

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

1521 likes

#30

“Captain Scultetus said, 鈥淪ir, I am the commander of the Swakopmund Coast Guard. My name and rank聽 are Captain Oskar Scultetus! I respectfully beg you not to open fire upon my city!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: australia, discovery, life-experiences, life-journey, living, love, nostalgia, self, soul, vietnam

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