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    Michael Parker
    “I don’t think ‘fear’ is the right word for his kind,” Hoffman observed. “It’s milked out
    of them before they are released on to an unsuspecting world.”
    ― Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant
    tags: conspiracy, dark, deceit, kidnap, murder, mysterious, power, secrets, terrorism, threat
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    Therisa Peimer
    “Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" 
    "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: dystopian, fantasy, fiction, fight, gripping, literary-fiction, love, mystery, sci-fi-romance, war
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Oskar Scultetus said, “Two of my men have been ordered to cut two of the guy wires holding the transmission tower in place, and they are already doing so  using  oxy-acetylene torches. When they have done it, the tower will fall!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
    tags: action, ancestry, drama, family, fiction, historical, learning, powerful, truths, war
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    Steven Decker
    “Teacher,” I said. “Can you feel love?”
    ― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind
    tags: action, child, danger, different-worlds, drama, excitement, literary, love, mothers-love, senses
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    Sara Pascoe
    “What’s “ague?”‘ Raya asked.
    ‘Malaria.’ Oscar said.
    ‘Oh, great.’
    ‘Hey, you want plague? They got that too.’ Raya ignored
    the cat.”
    ― 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
    415 likes

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    K. Ritz
    “This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, engaging, exciting, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery
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    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “The telegram was sealed – an old-fashioned touch, I thought, but then I’d never had a telegram before. I took my time opening it. I said nothing.”
    ― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows
    tags: betrayal, climatic, fiction-novel, hardship, investigation, life, paranormal, revenge, sadness, tense
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    Shannon Hale
    “How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme."

    "Bizarre and adorable?"

    "Just like you."

    "With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes"

    "Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.”
    ― Shannon Hale, The Actor and the Housewife
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    Herman Wouk
    “face grew longer and grimmer as Berel”
    ― Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance
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    Nikolas Schreck
    “...Or should you mourn the rapist, which I guess Christians mourn the people who kill them too.”
    ― Nikolas Schreck
    tags: bob-larson, left-hand-path, morality, satan, satanism
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    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “A terrible worm in an iron cocoon,” as he was called in an anonymous poem, the knight rode on a saddle rising in a high ridge above the horse’s backbone with his feet resting in very long stirrups so that he was virtually standing up and able to deliver tremendous swinging blows from side to side with any one of his armory of weapons.”
    ― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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    Jojo Moyes
    “What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?... What if I'm tired when I get home? What if I don't fill my days with frenetic activity?"
    "But one day you might wish you had”
    ― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
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    Barack Obama
    “Through them, I resolved the lingering questions of my racial identity. For it turned out there was no single way to be Black; just trying to be a good man was enough.”
    ― Barack Obama, A Promised Land
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