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    J.K. Franko
    “You can’t let people affect you. You’ve gotta stand up for what you
    think is right... even if you’re wrong. Especially if you know you’re
    wrong. Fuck ’em! All of ’em!”
    ― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye
    tags: crime-fiction, fiction-novel, thriller-novels
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    Behcet Kaya
    “So, wait. Now I’m confused. What about the senator’s son, the guy that fell? The Olmsteds hired you to investigate their son’s death and you end up investigating the senator? Swamp, you’re acting really weird. The man’s paying your fees. I don’t follow the logic.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Murder in Buckhead
    tags: curiosity, drama, dramatic, exhilarating, fiction, investigator, mystery, profound-mystery, thriller
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    K. Ritz
    “It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently in a given situation. It is true that desires of the moment can blind one’s sight of the future. Revenge is not as sweet as the adage claims. Yet who could pass a chance to taste it? And if the chance were allowed to slip by, would the fool regret his lack of action? ”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, fantasy-adventure, fascinating, fiction, humour, intrigue, journal, magic, spiritual
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Awakened to the crow of a rooster almost old enough to retire to a cooking pot.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: determination, family-love, motherly-love, motivation, space, stabbed, sword-fighting, time, time-space-continuum, violence
    114 likes

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  • #6
    “Time was being stripped from her one second at a time.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, THE DOG WALKER: THE PREQUEL
    tags: drama, dramatic, fiction, funny, heartwarming, insight, intrigue, sad, thought-provoking, thriller
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  • #7
    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “There follows a description of one lorry collapsing into the river. … While the energetic and able Burmese drivers and their assistants were busy clearing away the debris I walked up to the village to seek the help of the Akyiwa and his villagers …
    …there was no going back. All worked cheerfully and with a will, Chinese, Indian, Kachin and Burmese. … From Shaduzup
    onwards the forest grew incredibly thick, and consequently the track was not sufficiently recovered from the rain to make the rest of our journey an easy one … Captain Gribble”
    ― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942
    tags: army-quotes, band-of-brothers, family, front-line, guns, love, loyalty, pilots
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  • #8
    “The owner of the Post Office was called Maurice. A sixtyish-year-old with a large red nose that was pebble-dashed with broken capillaries, and a smooth bald head with a fuzz of grey hair around the side like the tide mark on a dirty bath. He had a gruff manner, distrusting eyes and a cough like kicked gravel.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: descriptive-prose, visual-moments
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  • #9
    Todor Bombov
    “Yesterday, I asked a robot, Gumball I think, do you know Murphy’s law of gravitation? It answered, ‘No, sir, I know only Newton’s and Einstein’s laws of gravitation; I don’t know Murphy’s law.’ I replied, ‘Eh, Gumball, the slice always falls with the buttered side to the floor. That’s Murphy’s law.’” Everyone burst into laughter.”
    ― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan
    tags: action, drama, dystopian, fiction, futuristic, machines, robots, sci-fi, science-fiction, technology
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    Charles Frazier
    “Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.”
    ― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
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    Arthur Golden
    “I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: memoirs-of-a-geisha
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  • #12
    “If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.”
    ― Kristin Cashore, Fire
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  • #13
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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