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Maggie O'Farrell
“What redemption there is in being loved: we are always our best selves when loved by another. Nothing can replace this.”
Maggie O'Farrell, This Must Be the Place

Alain de Botton
“At the heart of sulk lies a confusing mixture of intense anger and an equally intense desire not to communicate what one is angry about. The sulker both desperately needs the other person to understand and yet remains utterly committed to doing nothing to help them do so. The very need to explain forms the kernel of the insult: if the partner requires an explanation, he or she is clearly not worth of one. We should add that it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk: it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love.”
Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

Brandon Sanderson
“I learned how much power over a situation you gain when you decide that you don't care what others think of you.”
Brandon Sanderson, The Bands of Mourning

Alain de Botton
“It’s not just children who are childlike. Adults, too, are – beneath the bluster – intermittently playful, silly, fanciful, vulnerable, hysterical, terrified, and pitiful and in search of consolation and forgiveness.
We’re well versed at seeing the sweet and the fragile in children and offering them help and comfort accordingly. Around them, we know how to put aside the worst of our compulsions, vindictiveness and fury. We can recalibrate our expectations and demand a little less than we normally do; we’re slower to anger and a bit more aware of unrealised potential. We readily treat children with a degree of kindness that we are oddly and woefully reluctant to show to our peers.
It is a wonderful thing to live in a world where so many people are nice to children. It would be even better if we lived in one where we were a little nicer to the childlike sides of one another.”
Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

Brandon Sanderson
“You can’t just say ‘don’t be offended’ and then say something offensive, man! That’s not how it works.”
Brandon Sanderson, The Bands of Mourning

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