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81 " that the most potent power in the entire world came from having power over someone else. "
― Brad Meltzer , The Lightning Rod (Escape Artist, #2)
82 " When you lose a parent, you’re an orphan. When you lose a husband, you’re a widow. But as Zig had learned fourteen years ago, when you lose a child, they don’t have a name for that. "
― Brad Meltzer , The Escape Artist (Escape Artist #1)
83 " Let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure! "
84 " there’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else. "
― Brad Meltzer , The Inner Circle (Culper Ring, #1)
85 " they can also be as manipulative as a James Taylor song. Sure, they're calming and bring you to a good place-but at their core, the whole goal of the damn thing is to undo you. "
86 " the turkeys get you down.” He then slipped the note into "
87 " would all go tell their friends and neighbors and cousins and strangers in the supermarket that we went up for our baptism and sneezed in the holy water. "
― Brad Meltzer , The Book of Fate
88 " the juice. All I’m asking is that you keep it away from this gossip woman, because if that story runs tomorrow and Ellen sees it—” There’s a click on my phone. "
89 " ...if you think the worst you'll get the worst, but if you think the best...""and then everything will blow up in your face anyway. Don't you get the punchline yet? Its the great cosmic practical joke: Knock knock, who's there? Big kick in the Ass. "
― Brad Meltzer , The Millionaires
90 " No civilian has been allowed to see the gold in Fort Knox since 1974, nearly 40 years ago. "
― Brad Meltzer , History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
91 " Follow me. I will lead the way to freedom. "
― Brad Meltzer , I Am Harriet Tubman
92 " It’s far easier to judge others than to judge yourself. "
― Brad Meltzer , The President's Shadow (Culper Ring, #3)
93 " None of us are who we are on our very worst days,” he adds. “I know you know that. "
94 " And more than that, the United States of America was a whole new type of nation. Nothing like America had ever been tried before in the history of the world. "
95 " Be daring, be daring, always be daring. There is no big dream unless you dream big. "
96 " After all, bragging and boasting aren’t honorable; what’s honorable is doing one’s duty and sacrificing oneself for a noble cause. "
― Brad Meltzer , The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
97 " onto the unpaved dirt road that runs toward the "
― Brad Meltzer , The Fifth Assassin (Culper Ring, #2)
98 " There is a fine line between a carefree spirit and a fear of failure "
99 " Some observers, particularly Southerners, were critical of this show of force. “I have seen today such a sight as I could never have believed possible at the capital of my country,” one Southern reporter wrote, “an inauguration of a President surrounded by armed soldiery, with loaded pieces and fixed bayonets.” Another observer reported that the procession “seemed more like escorting a prisoner to his doom than a President to his inauguration. "
― Brad Meltzer , The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed
100 " our work’s reactive: In the "
― Brad Meltzer , The First Counsel