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    “If you want to be great, you have to be a leader. You’ve got to listen to me, son. That’s what we brought you here to do, to be a leader. And you can do it.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: biography, experiences, healing, journey, life, life-journey, self-discovery, teaching, time, travel
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    Alyssa Hall
    “I call my accent Frenglian. A wee bit of French mixed with English and Sicilian." She emitted a small chuckle at her new made-up word.”
    ― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet
    tags: evocative, fear-and-courage, personal-redemption, quiet-thriller, rural-canada, secrets-of-the-past, shocking-twists, small-town-suspense, survival, trust
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    Margarita Barresi
    “The bang of the modernist metal doorknocker exploded in the room. Jolting upright on the edge of the couch, Isa froze, her heart beating a discordance of dread. Her mind went blank as she stared
    at the door. No.”
    ― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage
    tags: class-conflict, debut-novel, gripping, identity, inner-turmoil, lush-landscapes, real-estate, societal-expectations, suspenseful, tropical-settings
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    Tom Hillman
    “Everyone is ready for the end of the day, ten-minute group meditation. The meditation is like the iciest beer you have ever
had after a hard day’s work.”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: accomplishing, cult, descriptive, faith, god, love, meditate, meditating, pray, religous
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    Author Harold Phifer
    “Unbeknown to her, that Louisiana background secretly intimidated my urgency to drop to a knee and produce a ring. Or maybe, I wanted to see her raise a chicken from the dead. Rumors had assured me, her tribe was capable of voodoo, spells, and such. Well, those were my on-going issues toward matrimony.
    But on the other hand, Deya couldn’t wait to meet the kin folks. Yes, I knew what visions of family meant to her, butsadly, I wasn’t it. Still, I had to risk her involvement as a potential rope out of hell.”
    ― Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift
    tags: beleifs, family, hell, hopeful, pray, spirits, suspense, thriller-books, voodoo, witchcraft
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    Lotchie Burton
    “Soft skin warm against his nose, her pulse beating strong against his cheek, suddenly clear thinking and being the voice of reason were concepts as foreign as a different language.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire
    tags: attitude, change, confidence, courage, curiosity, explore, fast-paced, fear, full-on, gripping
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    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “Since Alice spoke about energy, I think that is the next thing we must talk about. As she said, everything is energy. Not the type of energy that makes you get up in the morning, but what you and everything around you is made of. You look solid but you’re really made up of very tiny particles that are always vibrating. Even what you call air is made up of those same particles!”
    ― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water
    tags: emotional-awareness, exploring-emotions, living-cycles, living-ecosystems, nurturing-environment, nurturing-nature, open-mindedness, parental-guidance, sustainability, universal-connection
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Only human after all, she whispered.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: adventure, determination, exploration, future, hero, plots, quantum, romantic-action, time, twists
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
    tags: action, ancestry, discovery, family, family-history, future, history, literary-fiction, love, suspense
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  • #10
    “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;”
    ― Founding Fathers, The Declaration of Independence
    tags: declaration-of-independence, democracy, government, revolution, state
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    Robert M. Pirsig
    “Some things you miss because they’re so tiny you overlook them. But some things you don’t see because they’re so huge.”
    ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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  • #12
    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: katniss, love, peeta, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games
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    Dan Brown
    “Buddha had said:
    "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
    tags: inspiration
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    Shirley Jackson
    “They do say," Mr. Adams said to Old Man Warner, who stood next to him, "that over in 
    the north village they're talking of giving up the lottery."

    Old Man Warner snorted. "Pack of crazy fools," he said. "Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live hat way for a while. Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.' First thing you know, we'd all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There's always been a lottery, he added petulantly. "Bad 
    enough to see young Joe Summers up there joking with everybody."
    "Some places have already quit lotteries." Mrs. Adams said.
    "Nothing but trouble in that," Old Man Warner said stoutly. "Pack of young fools.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
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    Nelou Keramati
    “And to think of all the colors in the world, blood chose to be red.”
    ― Nelou Keramati
    tags: paranormal, paranormal-romance, resonance, romance, the-fray-theory, the-fray-theory-resonance, urban-fantasy, ya, ya-romance, ya-urban-fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-paranormal, young-adult-romance
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