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“Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.”
― C.Toni Graham

“If you dispute something written in the bible you can’t plausibly claim to have ‘faith’ in that same God.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“If life hands you some crappy chapters. . . then rewrite your story.”
― Ireland Gill, Absolute Zero

“It was perfect. The birds and the sky and the yellow leaves of Autumn. This was what it was, this life. It was tenuous and frail and yet fraught with beauty, and with beauty comes sadness. If you opt in to loving then you opt in to being human, to having your heart break a million times over. It's a circle of sorts. The more you go round the more laughter you find, the more laughter, the more joy, the more sadness. That is what life is. I felt something warm in my heart and I reached for Angus' hand.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“I won the only duel I ever lost.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Find one lousy body in your aunt’s fireplace and the first thing you know everyone is talking.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, River Road

“I’m still embarrassed and mad at myself. But after seventy years, I also feel sorry for the girl I used to be. She was awfully hard on herself.”
― Anita Diamant, The Boston Girl

“We are pack!”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“I have often found it true that the louder a person speaks, the less they have to say.”
― Douglas Preston, Reliquary

“No puedo resistirme a ti —dijo Alex con suavidad. —¿Lo sabes, no? Y ya me he cansado de fingir lo contrario —adoptó una expresión de profunda preocupación. —Pero no te amo, Daisy, y no puedes hacerte una idea de cuánto lo siento, porque si tuviera que amar a alguien, sería a ti.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel

“darkened. And, oh, the graceful curve of the lower landing, the hand-hewn craftsmanship of each individual spindle, the hours of meticulous, painstaking labor. Except, then he turned away from the staircase toward the front sitting room to discover built-in shelves, a gorgeously restored fireplace mantel, the original crown dentil molding . . . He gave up. He stood in the middle of”
― Lisa Gardner, Touch & Go