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“Every father wants his son to have the advantages he himself was denied. But then, if you provide those advantages, you risk producing a weakling. The core parental paradox.”
― Steven Barnes, The Moon Maze Game

“Do we really want to condemn as excessive the use of safety helmets, car seats, playgrounds designed so kids will be less likely to crack their skulls, childproof medicine bottles, and baby gates at the top of stairs? One writer criticizes "the inappropriateness of excessive concern in low-risk environments," but of course reasonable people disagree about what constitutes both "excessive" and "low risk." Even if, as this writer asserts, "a young person growing up in a Western middle-class family is safer today than at any time in modern history," the relevance of that relative definition of safety isn't clear. Just because fewer people die of disease today than in medieval times doesn't mean it's silly to be immunized. And perhaps young people are safer today because of the precautions that some critics ridicule.”
― Alfie Kohn, The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids, Helicopter Parents, and Other Phony Crises

“Most ordinary mortals, mistake money or visualize money in its physical form - as coins or currency. Thus they begin counting it, hoarding it and hiding it behind faceless numbers and faceless vaults in anonymous places all over the world. They value money for its form or the form of the acquisitions it is able to have - properties, jewellery, clothes, food etc. But the real connoisseur of money knows that its true value is elsewhere. It’s in the simple though propitious word, ‘influence’.”
― Vinod Pande

“How do you tell a young girl in her formative years that the real value, real wealth is only in acquisition of knowledge through higher education? In caring for the downtrodden as well as the learned. In committing yourself to the matters of culture and creativity, when your own life has been complete antithesis of the same?”
― Vinod Pande

“عدتُ إلى مكتبي، أُدخل أرقاماً تارةً، وأستقبلُ طلباتٍ تارةً، وأتَّصل بزملاء تارةً أخرى، وكلُّ شيءٍ يصبُّ في العمل نفسه، فيجعلني ذلك فارّاً من عدالة النّفس وأوجاعها، ألم يقل "شيشرون" بأنَّ العمل يزوِّدنا بمناعةٍ ضدَّ الألم؟ وها أنذا أفعل وما زلتُ أفعلُ بنصيحته، مناعةٌ مؤقّتة وعودةٌ دائمة، كأنّي أرسم منحنىً يرتفعُ كلّ صّباح إلى الأعلى ويُكدِّسُ الأوجاع تحته بالشُّغل، ثمَّ ينزل في اللّيل مُطأطئً ومخذولاً. لربما كنتُ سيزيفيّاً.. أرفع صخرة الحياة عالياً لتصل إلى ذروتها، وتنفلتَ عن غير قصد إلى الأسفل، والسّاخر أنّني مجبولٌ على مُعاودة الكرّة نُزولاً نحوها لحملها نحو الأعلى مراراً وتكراراً”
― هشام فريد, غادرتك فلا تذبلي

“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“...books give a man ideas, they make him want to live.”
― Patricia Engel, The Veins of the Ocean

“Ultimately, we need to take control over the money supply out of the hands of our governments and make the production of money again subject to the principle of free association. The first step to endorsing and promoting this strategy is to realize that governments do not—indeed cannot—fulfill any positive role whatever through the control of our money.”
― Jörg Guido Hülsmann

“it’s as if people can see the damage written all over me, can see it in my face, the way I hold myself, the way I move.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“The map showed human places I'd never heard of - places that had once been great civilizations, until humans forgot the world wasn't theirs to claim.”
― Anne Bishop, Etched in Bone

“plot is not the story, but an Ariadne's thread you follow through a labyrinth of scenes.”
― David Morley

“The theory and practice of revolution is bound to the way the individual emerges as a theoretical possibility and phenomenological actuality in and out of the revolutionary ensemble.”
― Fred Moten, Black and Blur

“Modernization did not demote the elderly. It demoted the family. It gave people—the young and the old—a way of life with more liberty and control, including the liberty to be less beholden to other generations. The veneration of elders may be gone, but not because it has been replaced by veneration of youth. It’s been replaced by veneration of the independent self. *   *   *”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“He keeps us waiting rather than wishing for him. I feel it a matter of perfect indifference whether he arrives at any moment or not at all.” — Lady Harriet Cavendish of George Beau Brummell”
― Ian Kelly, Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Man of Style

“I didn't leave because
I stopped loving you,
I left because the longer
I stayed the less I loved myself.”
― Rupi Kaur

“Adirondacks must sit in those uncomfortable wooden chairs with the seats tilted so deeply backward that your knees sprang up like a ventriloquist’s dummy as the wood pressed into the back of your thighs. Otherwise, why would they be so named?”
― Ann Beattie, The State We're In: Maine Stories

“I wasn’t the sort of person who struck up conversations with strangers.”
― Ann Beattie, The State We're In: Maine Stories

“Might as well wear loafers without socks. Or take out a membership at the Reading Room on the path above the beach—the Reading Room, where the joke was that there wasn’t a book in the entire place.”
― Ann Beattie, The State We're In: Maine Stories

“Around none o'clock in the evening, Sean and I climbed onto the tar-paper roof of the U-Find-It building. On one side of the roof someone had dumped a pile of copper pipes and plumbing fixtures that had been ripped out of abandoned buildings. It looked like a giant puzzle that only angels could untangle.”
― John Twelve Hawks, Spark

“Startled starlings flew up out of the high grass, their black whorl a little tornado that did not touch down and therefore did no damage. They disappeared like a momentary perception above Yancey’s head, fanning out and flying west. Or like the clotted words crammed into a cartoon bubble.”
― Ann Beattie, The State We're In: Maine Stories

“Horst…’ He lowered his voice, ashamed. ‘I’ve done things since then. Things you don’t know about.’ The confession almost choked him, but somehow he forced the words out. ‘I’ve done good things.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Brothers Cabal

“Their blissfully soft texture calmed me but alerted me at the same time. I couldn't explain the gentle spark of light that dripped off the edges. And of course, the aqua trim felt way too familiar.”
― Dianne Bright, Soul Reader

“But, just as I was about to pass out, the brutality making me hyperventilate, things took a drastic turn.”
― D.H. Sidebottom, Caged

“Fiction was the only way I stayed sane. But I didn't read romances or fairy tales. Nope. I looked for the gritty, the perverse. The dark. Because those kinds of stories gave me hope that there were far worse things in life than what I was dealing with.”
― Stevie J. Cole, Wicked Little Words

“He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels.”
― Henri Michaux, Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984

“adore”
― Lynnette Bernard, Alexa's Warrior Mate

“We’ve explained how this works. It has to work this way to keep the people we love safe. You have to trust that we’re doing all we can and keep shtum.”
― C.J. Washington, Musketeers: Fallen MC #2

“Listen buddy, I’m not saying we have to ask permission, but we will be dealing with my kind now and my pack and it is proper protocol to let them know we are coming.”
― Bryce Evans

“Being a writer is something I love to do, plus I get independence. It’s a great job for a woman because she can work at home and always be there for the children.”
― Anne Mather

“If that's what it takes". Jack had the confidence of a man who knew he had all the exits guarded. "Location 1044”
― Sophie Oak, Small Town Siren