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“My goal is to do something outrageous every day.”
― Maggie Kuhn

“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.”
― Iris Murdoch

“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”
― Pema Chödrön

“After my bedroom, this was my favourite place in the world. It was carpeted, and had heavy bookcases and ticking clocks and velvet chairs, just like someone’s living room. It smelled of unturned pages and unseen adventures, and on every shelf were people I had yet to meet, and places I had yet to visit. Each time, I lost myself in the corridors of books and the polished, wooden rooms, deciding which journey to go on next. Mrs”
― Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

“p.46 My tendency for lateness comes from a fear of feeling committed when early...Time is a muscle that seems to randomly flex and relax in a bid to misplace me and many others. I can't rid myself of the sensation that I'm about to fall off the world, as you might fall off the back of a treadmill.”
― Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

“The Germans had a word for everything—a word that could be very focused, very specific, because it could be constructed for a precise set of circumstances. They even had a word, it was said, for the feeling of envy experienced when one sees the tasty dishes ordered by others in a restaurant and it is too late to change one's own order. Mahlneid, meal envy, she believed that was the word—if it existed at all. ... Mahlneid could well catch on because many are bound to have felt that sort of envy as the waiter carries the dishes of others, gorgeously tantalising, past their own table....”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Department of Sensitive Crimes

“All suspects should be given the chance to telephone their lawyers or their mothers, and it would not be surprising if they chose to call their mothers. After all, your mother is fall more likely to believe in your innocence than your lawyer.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Department of Sensitive Crimes

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“For most immigrants, moving to the new country is an act of faith. Even if you've heard stories of safety, opportunity, and prosperity, it's still a leap to remove yourself from your own language, people, and country. Your own history. What if the stories weren't true? What if you couldn't adapt? What if you weren't wanted in the new country?”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Everyone seemed to fit in, except for me. I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go. I also realize that I was a long way, still, from finding my voice.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“We were expected not just to be smart but to own our smartness--to inhabit it with pride--and this filtered down to how we spoke.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“To misquote Mark Twain: It isn't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just isn't so.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book several times instead of just once.”
― Lorna Landvik, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“In my culture, animals are celebrated as beautiful, mysterious, powerful, dangerous, and benevolent. There was a period, before we lost the ability to listen, when the animals took pity on us, protected and taught us to the point where they became human in times of need. (Henry Standing Bear)”
― Craig Johnson, Land of Wolves

“It is difficult to confrontmadness, because insanity is a stranger to reason and any reasonable response would be insane.”
― Craig Johnson, Land of Wolves

“Positive reputation management. I Googled your name, and a few obnoxious articles popu up. I work with the leading reputation management company that can backlink to the positive articles to make a "firewall" which prevents negative pieces from ranking well on Google. Your first page of Google is key as 95% never go beyond the first Google page. Let's improve this. Easy to do.”
― Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

“An excess of fiction could make reality seem supremely dull with its crappy dialogue and lack of coincidences.”
― Susan Isaacs, Takes One to Know One

“There is a deeper hurt than anything sustained by the body, and it's the wounding of the soul. It's the feeling that you've been abandoned by everyone, even God. It's the most alone you'll ever be. A wounded body heals itself, but there is a scar.”
― William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land

“Socialism is the epithet they have hurled at every advance the people have made,” President Harry Truman observed. It was “what they called public power…”
― Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

“Corporations do not automatically obey laws. They weigh the size of the penalty relative to the gain from law breaking. In the age of oligarchy, laws are window dressing when penalties aren’t high enough and the people responsible for the lawbreaking are not held accountable. Unless the government prosecutes individuals or at least claws back their pay, the law is not of particular concern to the inhabitants of C-suites. Eleven years after Wall Street’s near meltdown, not a single major financial executive had been convicted or even indicted for crimes that wiped out the savings of countless Americans. Contrast this with a teenager who is imprisoned for years for selling an ounce of marijuana.”
― Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

“Forget what you may have learned about the choice between the “free market” and government. A market cannot exist without a government to organize and enforce it. The important question is whom the market has been organized to serve.”
― Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

“Don’t assume that we’re locked in a battle between capitalism and socialism. We already have socialism—for the very rich. Most Americans are subject to harsh capitalism.”
― Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

“Don’t believe the system is a meritocracy in which ability and hard work are necessarily rewarded. Today the most important predictor of someone’s future income and wealth is the income and wealth of the family they’re born into.”
― Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

“Socialism is the epithet they have hurled at every advance the people have made,” President Harry Truman observed. It was “what they called public power…bank deposit insurance…free and independent labor organizations…anything that helps all the people.” Every time over the last century Americans have sought to pool their resources for the common good, the wealthy and powerful have used the bogeyman of “socialism” to try to stop them.”
― Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

“The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other,... but to be with each other.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen