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“Charlotte had been surrounded by men most of her adult life. Only one attracted her, only one had she fallen in love withﾂ�窶� and he turned out to be cruel and broke her heart. But he was dead. She had killed him. He was a Nazi, an SS officer, dashing and charismatic 窶ｦ an evil person.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

tags: corruption, devotion, hidden-motives, literary-suspense, london-fiction, mysterious-past, noir-fiction, resistance-fighters, unreliable-characters, wartime-love-story

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“Marco opened the walkway gate just as a sprightly grey lizard skittered across the stone path. A bougainvillea vine laden with a riot of purple blooms scaled the right side of the house, and the heady scent of gardenias saturated the air.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: gripping, longing, patriarchal-society, perseverance, political-fiction, regret, social-justice, tropical-island, u-s-puerto-rico-relations, vivid

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#3

“I also fear an attack directly upon us which shall be considerably aided by the French colonists! I therefore support your plan to act first and stage a preemptive strike against the French by launching 窶廾peration Bright Moon窶�, which is now the code name for the Japanese coup d ﾄ孚at which will disarm the Vichy French Forces by or during the 9th of March 1945!窶� ﾂ�

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war

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#4

“It is wise to offer your gratitude when you ask and when you receive.”
― C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals

tags: adventure, engaging, exciting, fantasy, life, suspense, teen, ya, ya-lit, young-adult

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#5

“I can窶冲 believe this is happening. I can窶冲 fight like this, or start a revolution, or be a queen. I can窶冲 do anything like this. I窶冦 broken. I窶冦 literally broken.窶� Iko settled a hand on Cinder窶冱 shoulder. 窶弸eah, but broken isn窶冲 the same as unfixable.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

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“If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it...you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do.”
― Leon Uris, Trinity

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#7

“Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three

tags: ergonomics

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#8

“Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

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“Because Mary, a female, is so important to Catholicism, you feel that no one should be disappointed by having a girl instead of a boy, or if they are, they might just discover one day what a big mistake they made. Mary showed the world that girls shouldn窶冲 be underestimated.”
― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood

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“The global empire being forged before our eyes is not governed by any particular state or ethnic group. Much like the Late Roman Empire, it is ruled by a multi-ethnic elite, and is held together by a common culture and common interests.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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