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| 652bdaf | The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatmen.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 6f58338 | Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed. | Harville Hendrix | ||
| 0d2793d | When we were babies, we didn't smile sweetly at our mothers to get them to take care of us. We didn't pinpoint our discomfort by putting it into words. We simply opened our mouths and screamed. And it didn't take us long to learn that, the louder we screamed, the quicker they came. The success of this tactic was turned into an "imprint," a part of our stored memory about how to get the world to respond to our needs: "When you are frustrated.. | Harville Hendrix | ||
| 49ec3e0 | By the time you're an adult, you're used to seeing your friends disappear into their five-year plans. They drop out to get married, have babies, go to grad school, get divorced. They start a band or enter the penal system. They vanish for years at a time - some come back, some don't. Some of them you wait for and some you let go. Sometimes the only way they come back is in a song. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 15a410e | If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be. But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy. At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 1d5dd77 | with a touch of sarcasm. "Glass is an amazing material. Versatile," | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 4f863a3 | Interesting how life goes on in spite of itself. | life | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 4327ba7 | No one is going to mess with my son or daughter." She laughed. "You can't assassinate bullies or boys who kiss your daughter." "Pity." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 4e67c6a | Good to know I made a lasting impression." "Oh, you made an impression. Like a stone caught in my boot." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 6fcc78b | Riley - "Don't worry, there are many safeguards in place. Unless you want me to have Logan explain--" Trella - "No! I trust you." He clutched his hands to his chest. "She... Gasp... Trusts me! Call for medical aid stat!" I swung at him, but he grabbed my wrist and pulled me to my feet. Snaking his arms around my waist, he said, "We need to celebrate this momentous occasion." "What are we celebrating?" Jacob Ashon, Riley's father, asked fr.. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 2c72485 | It was all a part of being trustworthy--of being a piece of sea glass. High tides, low tides, storms, sand and mistakes all contributed to the polishing process. Though difficult to endure at the time, the demanding elements helped smooth the surface, transforming one into a better person, not worse. A person who learned from the harsh environment, who knew the storm would end, and who felt confident she would still be in one piece. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 4b27f5c | It's the problem with mistakes, they tend to linger. | deep-thoughts thoughtful mistakes | Maria V. Snyder | |
| b118912 | I learned that you can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
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| 1a73db7 | It can be hard for extroverts to understand how badly introverts need to recharge at the end of a busy day. We all empathize with a sleep-deprived mate who comes home from work too tired to talk, but it's harder to grasp that social overstimulation can be just as exhausting. | Susan Cain | ||
| e5e07ec | In her book Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion, Carol Tavris recounts a story about a Bengali cobra that liked to bite passing villagers. One day a swami--a man who has achieved self-mastery--convinces the snake that biting is wrong. The cobra vows to stop immediately, and does. Before long, the village boys grow unafraid of the snake and start to abuse him. Battered and bloodied, the snake complains to the swami that this is what came of kee.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 875d05b | Because conflict-avoidant Emily would never "bite" or even hiss unless Greg had done something truly horrible, on some level she processes his bite to mean that she's terribly guilty--of something, anything, who knows what?" | relationships conflict | Susan Cain | |
| 83726e1 | we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities. These seem like contradictory principles, but they ar.. | Susan cain | ||
| e4de27a | I need a break after school," she told me later. "School is hard because a lot of people are in the room, so you get tired. I freak out if my mom plans a play date without telling me, because I don't want to hurt my friends' feelings. But I'd rather stay home. At a friend's house you have to do the things other people want to do. I like hanging out with my mom after school because I can learn from her. She's been alive longer than me. We ha.. | happy thoughts feelings learning play mom introverts quiet introvert home thoughtful school | Susan Cain | |
| 2f9115c | The most effective teams are composed of a healthy mix of introverts and extroverts, studies show, and so are many leadership structures. | Susan Cain | ||
| 89c6e20 | What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun. | Ken Follett | ||
| d8d3c53 | But desperate people find courage. | Ken Follett | ||
| 1bac402 | Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote. | Ken Follett | ||
| 294549c | Insanlarin arasinda yalniz olmaktan daha korkunc bir sey yoktur. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 67b7948 | A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them. | life love need | Stefan Zweig | |
| 34749de | Yaslanmak, gecmisten artik korku duymuyor olmaktan baska bir sey degil zaten. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| d303f0e | Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn. | Eric Ambler | ||
| 02fafd8 | Cordelia, " he said quietly, his smile fading. "I seem to be in love you." | Kristan Higgins | ||
| f8cb0dc | You should probably marry me." He smiled." | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 6a429f5 | Okay, we get it, Jodi-with-an-i," I said, smiling pleasantly up at her. "You have an adorable son and are still quite available. Dennis, however, is with me. If you would just take your boobs out of my boyfriend's face, I would deeply appreciate it." | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 524cefd | Then he slid his hand into my hair and pulled me closer, and when he kissed me, my heart hurt from happiness, if such a thing was possible. "I missed you," I whispered against his mouth." | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 607f32e | Everyone makes mistakes. It's what you do after the mistake that matters. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| f7675ce | Maybe love isn't just a bouquet of roses once in a while. Maybe it's just sticking it out, when it's hard, when you're mad, when you're tired. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| bf7401f | He had seen - clever, clever boy that he was - that she could not be won by wooing; and he had approached her sidelong, as a friend rather than a lover, meeting her in the woods and telling her stories and making her love him without her noticing. | Ken Follett | ||
| 973dd97 | In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness. | pillars-of-the-earth | Ken Follett | |
| 52d8a95 | A waiter appeared, and Gus said: "Bring coffee for my guests, please, and a plate of ham sandwiches." He deliberately did not ask them what they wanted. He had seen Woodrow Wilson act like this with people he wanted to intimidate." | Ken Follett | ||
| bff53d3 | Never marry a beautiful woman. Worship them if you must, go to bed with them if you can--by all means, everyone should have carnal knowledge of physical perfection at least once in their life--but when it comes to marriage, it's a losing proposition. You will never stop feeling like a gatecrasher at your own party. Instead of feeling lucky, you will spend your life on edge, waiting for the other stiletto to fall and puncture your heart like.. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| d00fa28 | Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughtfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said." -- | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 692e66c | As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 88fd1a3 | You remember the old Roadrunner cartoons, where the coyote would run off a cliff and keep going, until he looked down and happened to notice that he was running on nothing more than air?" "Yeah." "Well," he said, "I always used to wonder what would have happened if he'd never looked down. Would the air have stayed solid under his feet until he reached the other side? I think we're all like that. We start heading out across this canyon, look.. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 729169e | THERE IS NOTHING more pathetically optimistic than the morning erection. I am depressed, unemployed, unloved, basement-dwelling, and bereaved, but there it is, every morning like clockwork, rising up to greet the day, poking out of my fly cocksure and conspicuously useless. And every morning, I face the same choice: masturbate or urinate. It's the one time of the day where I feel like I have options. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| b0efc97 | I shrugged and said sadly, 'What? Once we gave them the vote, it went totally out of control.' 'You're a pig, Harry,' Murphy growled. 'But a pig smart enough to bow to the inevitable. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b1ffdef | You're just going to stand there?" I asked. Uriel folded his arms and tapped his chin with one fingertip. "Mmmm. It does seem that perhaps she deserves some form of aid. Perhaps if I'd had the presence of mind to see to it that some sort of agent had been sent to balance the scales, to giver her that one tiny bit of encouragement, that one flicker of inspiration that turned the tide..." He shook his head sadly. "Things might be different no.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b3a3b4b | Because...fear is a terrible, insidious thing, Waldo. It taints and stains everything it touches, Waldo. If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all. I decided that I'm not going to be the kind of person who lives her life in fear of her friends' turning into monsters." "What? Just like that?" "It took me a long, long time to get there," she said. "But at the end of the day, I would rather h.. | Jim Butcher |