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“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

“I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.”
― Greg Iles, The Quiet Game

“Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.”
― Greg Iles, The Footprints of God

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“No relationship is ever perfect, but when you truly love each other ... it doesn't have to be.”
― Nick Spalding, Love... From Both Sides

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something”
― Harlan Coben, Six Years

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“Achievement is talent plus preparation”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”
― Malcolm Gladwell

“Emotion is contagious.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg