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    “Anyone who says "Trust me" is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: humour, life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, writer
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    Robert Reid
    “Apparently it is also called the ‘Staff of Power�? It is an ancient relic that supposedly was found by the Blair clan in Bala and has been a protected by them over the centuries.
    Robert Reid � The Son”
    ― Robert Reid, The Son
    tags: historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy
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    Lotchie Burton
    “Gabe suffers from survivor’s remorse. He won’t admit it because he doesn’t see it. Can’t recognize it in himself. He overcompensates for coming back alive, when so many didn’t. He’s got issues. You’ve got issues. Everyone has issues. But issues are a part of life. And whether we like it or not, even bad things happen for a reason.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire: Action Adventure, Romantic Suspense, Multicultural interracial
    tags: drama, excitement, exciting, griping, intrigue, rescue, romance, romantic-fiction, sad, thrilling
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  • #4
    “The devil wins only through lies and deception.”
    ― Kathryn Krick
    tags: conscience, goodness, hurt, inner-demons, kindness, light-and-dark, love, monsters, peace, wounded
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    K. Ritz
    “Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
                Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, tis fast in stone.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit
    648 likes

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    “Senator Collins and Speaker Bowling are two cuts or more above typical politicians. If all politicians modeled their examples, we’d have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
    ― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children
    tags: curriculum, educational-reform, government, leadership, policy, public-service, responsibility, the-three-rs, tradition, values
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Von Trotha said, “The Wahehe are a tribe of about one quarter of a million people! On the 17th of August 1891, they defeated the German expedition against them which was led by Zeleski.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
    tags: battles, classical-struggles, drama, family-life, hierarchy, history, literature, military-campaigns, passion
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  • #8
    “I stood up to go shake hands with him and I don’t remember anything else. What I do recall is the crowd yelling and me crying, while everything seemed to be moving in slow motion.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: community, family, friendships, healing, life-experiences, love, realisation, self-discovery, support, time-management
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    Sara Pascoe
    “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
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    Steven Decker
    “Looking back, I can’t help but marvel at my naivety. I wasn’t chasing a fresh start. I was running straight into a reckoning. ”
    ― Steven Decker, INNOCENT AGAIN: A LEGAL THRILLER
    tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, mystery, profound-mystery, thriller
    25 likes

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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Sometimes salvation is found in agony.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, One Thousand and One Ghosts
    tags: repentance, salvation, suffering
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    Peter S. Beagle
    “Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.”
    ― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother
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    Michael Pollan
    “In the wild a plant and its pests are continually coevolving, in a dance of resistance and conquest that can have no ultimate victor. But coevolution ceases in an orchard of grafted trees, since they are genetically identical from generation to generation. The problem very simply is that the apple trees no longer reproduce sexually, as they do when they’re grown from seed, and sex is nature’s way of creating fresh genetic combinations. At the same time the viruses, bacteria, fungi, and insects keep very much at it, reproducing sexually and continuing to evolve until eventually they hit on the precise genetic combination that allows them to overcome whatever resistance the apples may have once possessed. Suddenly total victory is in the pests� sight—unless, that is, people come to the tree’s rescue, wielding the tools of modern chemistry.”
    ― Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
    tags: coevolution, pesticides, plants, resistance
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    Mary Norton
    “Here she was on the other side of the grating—here she was at last, on the outside—looking in!”
    ― Mary Norton, The Borrowers
    tags: accomplish, accomplishment, accomplishments, adventure, adventures, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, hope
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    Dan Brown
    “When his brain died, all of the memories
    held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate
    in a flood of chemical reactions.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
    tags: death
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    Lisa Genova
    “More and more, she was experiencing a growing distance from her self-awareness. Her sense of Alice—what she knew and understood, what she liked and disliked, how she felt and perceived—was also like a soap bubble, ever higher in the sky and more difficult to identify, with nothing but the thinnest lipid membrane protecting it from popping into thinner air.”
    ― Lisa Genova, Still Alice
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