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“Another lesson to be learned: never underestimate your fellow man. One man's ceiling is another man's floor.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Golden House

“Guilty secrets make paranoids of us all.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Golden House

“You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty

“One of the objectives of art is to promote dialogue.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“You learn to live with the paradox. Meanwhile, you keep looking for chances to push the limits back, to do as much as you can as many as you can, every day. Even on the bad days, there's something good you can do.”
― Bill Clinton, James Patterson, The President Is Missing

“It's not difficult to compliment people in order to try to win their affections. What is difficult is to do it in the right way.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“You have to believe that what you are creating is sacred.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“Not everyone is meant to charge through the world, carrying a spear.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“The music is a safe place to practice being human.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

“Wondering about true love and good sex feels like touching a hot stove.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

“I want to be the kind of person who will take care of me.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

“I stop explaining myself because I learn that making decisions is never about doing the right thing or the wrong thing. It's about doing the precise thing. The precise thing is always incredibly personal and often makes no sense to anyone else.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

“We either allow ourselves to feel the burn of our own pain or someone we love gets burned by it.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

“I might be a bitch but I am free.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

“It's not romantic to be so loyal that you compromise your sense of yourself.”
― Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

“People thought I was the good sister, but really I was only good at being sneaky.”
― Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

“It's humbling to have your social fluency, your sense of yourself as a competent, independent person, upended by a foreign city.”
― Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

“Fighting has always been, more or less, a form of blindness.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“It's called thinking. It's something folks did before Google. Thinking is like... it's like googling your own brain.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“The culture depends on the sensitivity of a few because nothing can be healed if it's not sensed first.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“It is easier to call us broken and dismiss us than to consider that we are responding appropriately to a broken world.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“We forgot how to know when we learned how to please.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“We're like snow globes: We spend all of our time, energy, words, and money creating a flurry, trying not to know, making sure that the snow doesn’t settle so we never have to face the fiery truth inside us—solid and unmoving. The relationship is over. The wine is winning. The pills aren’t for back pain anymore. He’s never coming back. That book won’t write itself. The move is the only way. Quitting this job will save my life. It is abuse. You never grieved him. It’s been six months since we made love. Spending a lifetime hating her is no life at all.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“My emotions
My intuition
My imagination
My courage
Those are the keys to freedom.
Those are who we are.
Will we be brave enough to unlock ourselves?
Will we be brave enough to set ourselves free?”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Our minds are excuse-makers; our imaginations are storytellers.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it's supposed to be.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“A broken family is a family in which any member must break herself into pieces to fit in. A whole family is one in which each member can bring her full self to the table knowing that she will always be both held and free.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed