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#1

“Reincarnation is the putrefaction of the soul.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Crossbones

tags: dark, drama, fantasy, ghost-suspense, horror, mystery, paranormal, paranormal-romance, suspense, thriller

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#2

“If you are offended by a belief that says you can’t have your own definition of God, be alarmed at yourself! The implications are humbling, if not embarrassing.”
― Randy Loubier

tags: christianity, gods-power, guidance, healing, love, reflection, religion-and-philoshophy, spirtitual-growth

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#3

“He fell on his hands and knees, engulfed in darkness and a biting acrid smell. He felt the floor timidly and touched damp straw. Coughing coming from a corner revealed that he wasn’t alone. He stayed still, on the spot, waiting for his eyes to become accustomed to the dark. His eyes stung and watered from the pungent air. Gradually he could make out shadows. Shapes of people crouched and cowering together, like scared wild animals. The stench of bodies massed so close to each other, their pores oozing illness, their excretions permeating the straw flooring, overwhelmed him. He felt his stomach rebel, and he threw up what little was in it.”
― Rowena Kinread, The Missionary

tags: accomplishment, brutal, culture, eauropean-history, educational, invaders, religion, slavery, wars

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#4

“Ah! You speak Levitan,” the man smiled. “But you’re not from Levita I think.” Like most Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown’s tastes.  “No, I lived there for a while.”  “Did you enjoy your stay?” “Up to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.” “Yes of course. So are the men in Levita,” the man smiled. “We used to have a cleansing programme to ensure a healthy population.” “You mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the population.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction, mystery, thriller

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#5

“You should be afraid. Death isn’t the worst that can happen to you. And yes, I would have killed you.”
― Christian Warren Freed, The Lazarus Men

tags: fighting, futuristic, multiverse, mysterious, mystery, quantum, rules, skilful, violence, war

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#6

“Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, Governors, Mayors, Judges and Justices all fall prey to the Hitman.”
― RB Le `Deach, My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories

tags: bloody, dark-fantasy, fiction-novel, graphic, gruesome, short-stories, sick-mind, trauma, twisted, violent

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#7

“TRAD, she screams silently, hands pressed to the barrier. The light intensifies, and then it’s gone, she’s gone – all of the children are gone.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

tags: different, exciting, fantasy, original, science-fiction, thrilling, unique

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#8

“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to die in a corner; he would have taken the false gods and made them over; he would have taken the current formulae and forced them into something lesser men thought them incapable of. Alive today he would undoubtedly have written and directed motion pictures, plays, and God knows what. Instead of saying, "This medium is not good," he would have used it and made it good. If some people called some his work cheap (which some of it was), he wouldn't have cared a rap, because he would know that without some vulgarity there is no complete man. He would have hated refinement, as such, because it is always a withdrawal, and he was too tough to shrink from anything.”
― Raymond Chandler, Raymond Chandler Speaking

tags: art, beautiful-losers, bravery, courage, courage-to-be-oneself, fresh-ideas, great-art, greatness, hip-hop, innovation, integrity, lars-von-trier, modern-art, porn-as-art, pornography, refinement, sasha-grey, sex-in-cinema, shakespeare, struggling-artist, struggling-writer, the-truth, vulgarity

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#9

“He says, this silence of More's, it was never really silence, was it? It was loud with his treason; it was quibbling as far as quibbles would serve him, it was demurs and cavils, suave ambiguities. It was fear of plain words, or the assertion that plain words pervert themselves; More's dictionary, against our dictionary. You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

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#10

“The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

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#11

“The gap between most people’s capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the width of the Atlantic Ocean.”
― Lionel Shriver

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#12

“I could have been a great many things.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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#13

“If, one day, I am able to find the fortitude to stare January 18, 2012 directly in the face, and then hand it to you as I see it, then you will know that I somehow began to emerge from this black hole reborn, with a renewed spirit.”
― Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin

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#14

“mean anything.” She seemed subdued, sad.”
― Peter Benchley, Jaws

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#15

“If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

tags: woman

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#16

“Eating is an agricultural act," Wendell Berry famously wrote, by which he meant that we are not just passive consumers of food but cocreators of the systems that feed us. Depending on how we spend them, our food dollars can either go to support a food industry devoted to quantity and convenience and "value" or they can nourish a food chain organized around values--values like quality and health. Yes, shopping this way takes more money and effort, but as soon as you begin to treat that expenditure not just as shopping but also as a kind of vote--a vote for health in the largest sense--food no longer seems like the smartest place to economize.”
― Michael Pollan

tags: industrialization, nutritionism, whole-food

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#17

“- Habitualmente não passamos certificados - afirmou o gato, carrancudo. - Mas para si, abrimos uma excepção.
E antes que Nikolai Ivanovitch tivesse tempo de se recompor, Hella, ainda nua, já estava sentada à máquina de escrever e o gato ditava-lhe:
- Pelo presente certifico que o seu portador, Nikolai Ivanovitch, passou a noite indicada num baile em casa de Satã, tendo sido recrutado como meio de transporte... Hella, abre parênteses! Entre parênteses escreve: «porco». Assinado, Behemot.”
― Mikhail Bugakov

tags: margarita-e-o-mestre, master-and-margarita, portuguese, português

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#18

“Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there. His desire to become a Runner had taken a major blow. But he had to do it. Somehow he KNEW he had to do it. It was such an odd thing to feel, especially after what he'd just seen... Thomas knew he was a smart kid- he somehow felt it in his bones. But nothing about this place made any sense. Except for one thing. He was supposed to be a Runner. Why did he feel that so strongly? And even now, after seeing what lived in the maze?”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

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#19

“I like him."

"Like or like?

"Oh, there's a difference?”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

tags: christian, lissa, vampire-academy

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#20

“Praise means nothing to Mama, she doesn't believe it. Only criticism can flush her cheeks and catch her attention. If I were to say something disparaging she would remember it always.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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#21

“no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational

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#22

“It's only when you love him that you hate him.”
― Judith Viorst

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#23

“She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers

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#24

“I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.”
― Susanna Kaysen

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#25

“The steps leading to the porch looked worn, cracked, and unpainted, ready for a nice hot 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

345 likes

#26

“We went on a Senate kiss-ass tour, but apparently, I have a genetic inability to pucker.”
― Guy Morris, Swarm

tags: action, crime, cyber, evolution, fantasy, gripping, horror, intense, international, thriller

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#27

“You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?'
'I couldn't do that,' I say. 'It would have been like shooting myself.'
He looks pained and leans closer to me, so his lips brush mine when he speaks.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: divergent, four, tobias, tris, veronica-roth

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#28

“Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
― Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#29

“Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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#30

“And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand "coincidences" and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.”
― Richard Bach, Nothing by Chance

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