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“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
― Carl Jung

“Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“I wasn’t one hundred percent sure what it was I’d seen. I’ve learned to doubt myself and my perceptions of the world around me. I do realize I’m different, you know, different from most. What I perceive isn’t what you perceive. Plus, people don’t always listen to me. I’m often afraid I won’t be believed, that my thoughts will be discounted. I’m just a maid, a nobody. And what I saw in that moment, it felt like a dream, but I know now that it was real. Someone with a deep motive killed Mr. Black. And that wasn’t me,” I said. I looked at Rodney then, and he looked at me. There was a look on his face that was entirely new. It was as though, for the very first time, he was seeing me for who I really am.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“I do sometimes feel angry. Especially when guests are careless. When they forget that their actions have an impact on others, when I’m treated like I don’t matter.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“One thing I’ve learned in my business is that you can hide dirt for a while, but at some point, it all comes to the surface.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“It’s funny the way memories bubble up whenever I clean. I do wonder if that’s the same for everyone—for everyone who cleans, that is.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“That’s the trouble with pain. It’s as contagious as a disease. It spreads from the person who first endured it to those who love them most. Truth isn’t always the highest ideal; sometimes it must be sacrificed to stop the spread of pain to those you love. Even children know this intuitively.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“When all else fails, tidy up.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“Yesterday was a jolt to my system. Today is also a jolt but in a much more pleasant and exciting way. It goes to show you that you just never know what surprises life has in store for you.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“I don't believe that some people are more important than other people. We're all very important in our own way.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“One must live by her own moral code, not follow like a sheep, blindly.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“The truth is, I often have trouble with social situations; it’s as though everyone is playing an elaborate game with complex rules they all know, but I’m always playing for the first time.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“For the first time in my life, I think I understand what a true friend is. It isn't just someone who likes you; it's someone willing to take action on your behalf.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“It’s as though yesterday’s upheavals never happened, as though every day conveniently erases the one that came before.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“Justice is like truth – it, too, is subjective. So many of those who deserve to be punished never receive their just deserts, and in the meantime, good people, decent people, are charged with the wrong crimes. It’s a flawed system – justice – a dirty, messy, imperfect system. But if the good people accept personal responsibility for exacting justice, would we not have a better chance of cleaning the entire world, of holding the liars, the cheaters, the users, and the abusers to account?”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“Cheryl may be my boss, but she’s definitely not my superior. There is a difference, you know. You can’t judge a person by the job they do or by their station in life; you must judge a person by their actions”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“We must be like bamboo. We must learn to bend and flex with the wind.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“It’s not your station in life that matters. It’s how you conduct yourself that counts.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“We are all the same in different ways.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid