"Sean looks up at her, and he wants to explain it all to her. Explain what it’s like to be rubbed so raw, to have your emotional threshold exceeded day after day, your psyche beaten so completely that you have no choice but to turn inward, shunning any and everything that’s ever brought you comfort. He wants to explain that—up until the past month or so—he’d been existing in a black hole, a mental abyss that he only recently realized he put himself in. But watching Lauren’s face—the concern in her expression, so pure and complete, considering he’s technically still a complete stranger—he realizes he doesn’t have to explain anything. She knows what it’s like. Everybody does."
1
"Your job is obviously very pressured."I thrive under pressure," I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since... Well. Ever since my mother told me when I was about 8."
0
"Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us."
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"Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake."
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)"
0
"No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn’t conversation. It’ll never lead anywhere. No one is going to say, “Wow, Mindy, you really have it especially bad. I have heard some stories of stress, but this just takes the cake."
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book
"Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, Do it again; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, Do it again to the sun; and every evening, Do it again to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we."
0
"I don’t think you’re going to start a riot, but until you prove you have more survival instincts than a seriously stressed out lemming, you’ll stay at the bar."
0
"Look what pressure(cooker) does to Rice. It makes the hard and tough rice go soft."
1
"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking"
0
"Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff Mc Fly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out."
1
"The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions."
0
"So what are you doing around here" I ask, feeling all jittery, but this time it's in a good way."Oh, I was just in the area." he says vaguely. "I thought I'd take Welly for a walk..." He trails off and stuffs his hands in his pockets. Those butterflies are going crazy in there."
0
"Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening."
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"The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them."
1
"Zane raised his brow. “Didn’t I say that yesterday?” he asked, forcinghimself to be patient. Somehow.“You say that like you think I listen to you,” Ty responded instantly, asmile pulling at his lips."
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"No sight so sad as that of a naughty child, he began, especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?They go to hell, was my ready and orthodox answer. And what is hell? Can you tell me that?A pit full of fire. And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?No, sir. What must you do to avoid it?I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: I must keep in good health and not die."
0
"[Hearing] was distinct from listening, which could only be achieved when hearing was combined with giving a shit."
1
"Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um – they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?"
0
"Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more complication, sleaze, struggle, true beauty, unfairness, profundity, passion, and depth of consciousness than she, in her frantic struggle to be somebody other than her unspectacular self, had been previously aware of. page 302"
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