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#1

“Embedded in their psyche was the story of what had happened to the world, and the boys felt glorious to be on the other side of the madness”
― Pernell Plath Meier, In Our Bones

tags: abusive-relationships, authoritarianism, between-the-lines-pub, corona-pandemic, dystopian, election-2020, great-read, kindleunlimited, racial-tension

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“I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

tags: africa, love, passion

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#3

“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
― Jalalu'l-din Rumi

tags: divinity, love, poetry, rumi, spiritual, sufi

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#4

“You still think love can save us. It's more killing than hate. Hate is so clean, so simple. Like being in the ring. With hate, you just keep hitting back. You hit until they stop hitting back. With love... they never stop." ~ (Frank)”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

tags: hate, hit, killing, love

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#5

“You never fail until you quit trying.”
― Tom Sechrist

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#6

“To be is to do - Socrates.
To do is to be - Jean-Paul Satre.
Do be do be do -Frank Sinatra.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

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#7

“I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?"
You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#8

“Marco鈥檚 heart swelled with pride at his culture. Maybe it was the coquito, but his eyes teared at this beautiful Reyes celebration, heavenly food, lush green mountains, clean air, and his family鈥檚 delighted faces. He felt sorry for the stiff people at the Casino de Puerto Rico, pretending to be j铆baros and eating food half as delicious as this. Actually, no. He didn鈥檛 feel sorry for them. It was precisely what they deserved.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: alienation, artistic-sacrifice, compelling, cultural-authenticity, feminist-fiction, freedom, multi-generational, political-landscape, rural-beauty, u-s-colonial-period

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#9

“Although enemy forces had overrun the mortar and some gun positions, they did not have everything their own way.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, factual, indochina-war, insightful, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

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#10

“I really like Matilda and that's not a clever book, is it? It's for children. But she's my favourite main character because she comes from an awful family and likes reading, like I do. Those special powers must've made her life a lot easier, though. She wouldn't be working in a pub at thirty-two.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

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#11

“The final sound of the rifle shot bounced around the lake.”
― 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

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#12

“His mouth went dry and for a split second he had a metallic taste on the sides of his tongue. He stood, turned, and gulped. A vision had appeared from somewhere. Was she real? She was tall, with long, glossy light-gold hair surrounding a perfectly shaped face. The front of her silk white robe was open down to a delightful cleavage where a long silver cross hung. As she walked slowly past Alec to sit at the desk, the robe parted for a fleeting glimpse of her leg. A scent of lily of the valley meandered over him. A hand with long graceful fingers indicated for him to sit again in his chair. She was real!
She was, without doubt, the most beautiful woman Alec had ever seen.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

tags: betrayal, church-murder, criminal-masterminds, detective-fiction, emotional-complexity, firsthand-accounts, love-and-loss, melancholy, refugees, symbolism

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#13

“People don鈥檛 realize how a man鈥檚 whole life can be changed by one book.”
― Malcolm X

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#14

“I don't know. We've never done anything, have we? We've no talent but conversation.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

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#15

“I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#16

“It鈥檚 all part of the life-cycle of an economy. First it鈥檚 lawless capitalism until that starts to impede growth. Next comes regulation, law enforcement, and taxes. After that: public benefits and entitlements. Then, finally, overexpenditure and collapse.”
― Andy Weir, Artemis

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#17

“The monk's ultimate goal is direct union with the Godhead. But to aim at that goal is to miss it altogether. His task is to rid himself of ego so that consciousness, once its usual discordant mental content is dumped out of it through ritual prayer and meditation, may experience nonself as a living formlessness and emptiness into which God may come, if it please Him to come.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

tags: monasticism

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#18

“Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.”
― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods

tags: peace, quiet, solitude, woods

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