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“There's something about the candle snuffed out prematurely that captures our imagination—it is the thought, perhaps, of the books and paintings and songs that might've been, or the idea that artists simply burn too bright for this world.”

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Book:Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

Source: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“But more often than not the missing face has been sucked into the engines of the Nazi death machine, like an unlucky lapwing hitting the propeller of a Lancaster bomber-nothing left but feathers blowing away in the aircraft's wake, as if those warm wings and beating heart had never existed.”

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Book:Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

“Si l'on considère la petitesse dévolue à la coupe du bonheur humain, la promptitude avec laquelle elle déborde de larmes, la facilité avec laquelle nous la vidons jusqu'à la lie dans notre soif inapaisable d'infini, qui pourrait bien nous reprocher de faire si grand cas d'une simple tasse de thé ?”

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Book:The Book of Tea

Source: The Book of Tea

“Out on his flank, a soldier whipped up his crossbow, cocked it with a jerk on a leather thong, took aim and let fly. The iron-tipped arrow whistled through the air and found its mark, straight between the shoulder blades of the retreating spy. The man dropped like a stone. A short scream became a cough, and the cough a torrent of blood on the sand.”

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Book:The Kappillan of Malta

Source: The Kappillan of Malta

“When I see a man pacing. punching. screaming. Doing anything to keep from crying. I wonder what terrible things his mind is saying to his heart.”

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Author:L.E. Bowman

“Everyone in the hotel went silent, with a sudden shared dread of a thousand people made aware of their fragility in the same moment.”

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Book:Leviathan Wakes

Source: Leviathan Wakes