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#1

“He sounds like a politician running for office.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action-packed, alien-invasion, alien-spacecraft, aliens, compelling, earth, fast-paced, galaxy, humans, struggles

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#2

“Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party for the convenience of the police. It’s like an old-fashioned mystery novel.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder On Family Grounds: A Mary Wandwalker Mystery

tags: drama, excitement, fiction-novel, investigation, murder-mystery, mysterious, mystery, suspense, tense, thriller

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#3

“Life was better than he expected with his new Italian family inheritance, and it felt good to take a deep breath without fear of someone attacking him or his family.”
― Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller

tags: drama, fiction, mystery, noir, organised-crime, page-turner, secrets, suspense, tense, violent

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#4

“Pericles let a moment pass, then another. The Spartans needed time to set in balance the risks of accepting the offer and the joys of being rich. Not as much time as he’d expected, though.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, drama, exciting, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, past, politics, present

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#5

“Where’s my uncle?” she asked.
“I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place before I bought it, then he’s pushing up daisies.”
“But it can’t be, he’s still young.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fiction, intrigue, magic, mystery, survival, thriller, urban-fantasy, witches

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#6

“Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

tags: buddhism, east, hesse, west

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#7

“Any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy.”
― Eugene O'Neill

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#8

“The man or woman who realizes God has everything and lacks nothing: having this, “they desire nothing else, and cannot be shaken by the heaviest burden of sorrow” (6:22). Life cannot threaten such a person; all it holds is the opportunity to love, to serve, and to give. Dharma,”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

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#9

“Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren’t? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

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#10

“Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity of our universe ?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

tags: brain, explore, middle-grade, science, science-fiction, scientist, the-great-unknown, universe

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#11

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: giving, helping-others

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