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“I generally find subtlety a waste of time.”

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This book delves into the harrowing experiences of individuals pushed to their limits, facing life-threatening challenges that test their resilience and will to survive. more

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Cindy Gerard

Cindy Gerard is a renowned American author known for her suspense novels. Her works are characterized by strong emotions and complex character development, which have won her a large following among readers. more

“I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.”

Feels Should Firsts Believe Long Book Stories Three I Believe Months Periods Activity Band Affair Odd Department Severe Three Months Public Affairs Sunspots

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Believe Long Stills Ends Enough Waiting Strings What If Kinder

Book:Touch Blue

Source: Touch Blue

“It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.”

People Ifs Real Remember Easy Complicated

Book:Touch Blue

Source: Touch Blue

“Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.”

Stills Ends Wish Slippery

Book:Touch Blue

Source: Touch Blue

“She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”

World Feels Feelings Wanted Pressure Right Thing Doing The Right Thing

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?”

Too Much Dangerous Plant East Protest Potatoes

Author:Ben Aaronovitch

“the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you”

“I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.”

Years Mean Running Sides Struggle Driving Swimming Cycling Triathlon I Love Swimming

Author:Jenson Button

“As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of the rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the membership of all that is here. Well, you can read and see what you think.”

Thinking Years Wells Seems Found House Belief Christ Fields Rivers Towns Organized Temples Sinner Wilderness Sheep Organized Religion Membership Pastures Roadside

Book:Jayber Crow: A Novel

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

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