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#1

“At seventeen the young woman had worked out how to improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

tags: action, conquest, drama, greed, gunpowder, mysterious, orphan, truth, war, weapon

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#2

“He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire."
聽聽 "And you? What are your plans?"
聽聽 "I have no plans to kill your father.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: action-packed, aliens, compelling, dry, earth, fast-paced, humans, humour, intrigue, mission

362 likes

#3

“When it comes to meditation, one minute is better than zero. Something is an improvement from nothing.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

tags: challenging, communication, explore, failures, identity, personal-growth, reflection, societal-expectations, successes

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#4

“Now I鈥檓 not blaming anything on her鈥擨 take full responsibility for my own actions鈥� but it was Annette鈥檚 betrayal that began my slow spin downward to insanity. 聽”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

tags: action, contemporary, death, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, general, life, paranormal-urban-fantasy-romance, sci-fi

61 likes

#5

“On the end of my bed. He鈥檚 short, round and bald, with a tartan loin cloth, and what looks like a spout on the top of his head,鈥� Bryony said. 鈥榊ou flatter me,鈥� came the snide male voice. 鈥楤ut it鈥檚 a valve.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, coming-of-age, coming-of-age-fiction, engaging, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, occult, supernatural, young-adult

457 likes

#6

“#metooasachild”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

tags: metooasachild

942 likes

#7

“Black reached for a Glock G21 SF. Two boxes of .45 Precision Tactical. Two knives. If he needed more, he was in real trouble.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: action, conspiracy, crime, espionage, gripping, horror, intense, thriller

61 likes

#8

“This is BATL.
War in miniature.
War as a game.
War under glass.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

tags: ai, destruction, drama, dystopian, earth, fast-paced, humans, machines, trilogy, war

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#9

“You can鈥檛 set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise.鈥�
[Anna] aimed her defiance at Mary.
鈥淎nd you? What鈥檚 your reason to hate me?鈥�
Caroline spoke quietly. 鈥淲e nearly died 鈥� in the fire in those mountains and at the house when Ravi had a gun pointed at us.鈥� Her eyes were full of tears. 鈥淭he fire you set at The Old Hospital could have killed me as well as Janet and Agnes.鈥�
Anna muttered into the syrupy dregs of her tea. 鈥淔ire, you鈥檙e firing me?鈥�
Mary grimaced. There had been too much fire.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, detective, fiction, fiction-novel, murder, realistic, thriller

388 likes

#10

“John F Kennedy (President Elect) was at the White house in order to confer with his predecessor Dwight Eisenhower. He was told to wait while the President of the United States of America attended to some necessary items. After a time, John was escorted into the Oval Office, and he found himself directly in front of the out-going president. So it was that the conversation between two of the most powerful men on earth began.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: documented, factual, indochina-war, insightful, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

150 likes

#11

“In the 1960s, Valerie (Hobson) Profumo became the first show-business mother to talk publicly about Down鈥檚 syndrome. She was instrumental in founding Three Roses, England鈥檚 first charity to support families with Down鈥檚 children.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

61 likes

#12

“have forced myself to move forward, but I can never move on.”
― Lisa See, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

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#13

“Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

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#14

“What was it? What could it--

His last thought was surprise.”
― Peter Benchley, Beast

tags: horror, influential, suspense

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#15

“He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

tags: american-literature, hemingway

110 likes

#16

“The door opened.
"We're here," said Mrs. Rogers.
Aunt Myra came in.
"Now!" said Amelia Bedelia.
"Greetings, greetings, greetings,"
said the three children.
"What's that about?" said Mrs. Rogers.
"You said to greet Aunt Myra with Carols," said Amelia Bedelia.
"Here's Carol Lee, Carol Green, and Carol Lake."
"What lovely Carols," said Aunt Myra.
"Thank you.”
― Peggy Parish, Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia

tags: humor

247 likes

#17

“Yes, it鈥檚 true: a few hundred thousand rupees of someone else鈥檚 money, and a lot of hard work, can make magic happen in this country.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

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#18

“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

#19

“You shall address me as 鈥楳y Dearest鈥�,鈥� he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. 鈥榊ou will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.鈥� 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

282 likes

#20

“聽聽 In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian鈥檚 college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, fictional, horror, thriller

1102 likes

#21

“How did I become President?
I began by setting an example, hanging out my own dirty laundry in front of Village Earth right from the start. Every ugly little life secret became a matter of public record. Of course, that included sordid love-life details.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

tags: culture, democracy, drama, educational, fiction, fictional-drama, fictional-narratives, historical-fiction, historical-research

196 likes

#22

“Monstrous not just for what they were, but for what was done to them, as pitiable as Mary Shelly鈥檚 creation, as human and forlorn.”
― William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven

tags: conspire, courage, domination, exciting, exploration, fast-paced, fear, plots, sci-fi, treachery

64 likes

#23

“A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach”
― Niccol貌 Machiavelli

tags: inspirational

16 likes

#24

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: compassion, justice, mercy

6878 likes

#25

“We wouldnt ever eat anybody, would we?
No. Of course not.
Even if we were starving?
We're starving now.
You said we werent.
I said we werent dying. I didnt say we werent starving.
But we wouldnt.
No. We wouldnt.
No matter what.
No. No matter what.
Because we're the good guys.
Yes.
And we're carrying the fire.
And we're carrying the fire. Yes.
Okay.”
― Cormac McCarthy

tags: the-road

42 likes

#26

“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than its own, set in a grassless cinderstrewnpacked compound surrounded by smoking factory purlieus and enclosed by ten food steel-and-wire fence like a penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike childtrebling, orphans in identical and uniform blue denim in and out of remembering but in knowing constant in the bleak walls, the bleak windows where in rain soot from the yearly adjacenting chimneys streaked like black tears.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

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#27

“him. "No; the danger is too great," said the King; "I prefer to die." Nevertheless, the Son begged and entreated so long that the King consented, and the Prince”
― Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Stories

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#28

“Not only had he lived where they told him to live, not only had he done what they told him to do, not only had he done these things until he had killed to be quit of them ; but even after obeying, after killing, they still ruled him. He was their property, heart and soul, body and blood ; what they did claimed every atom of him, sleeping and waking...”
― Richard Wright, Native Son, Full length play, Drama

tags: racism, racism-in-america

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