Quentin Snellbaker

“The average life expectancy of a fighter pilot was no more than fifty to sixty flight hours.”
― Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew

“once you become a parent, you learn that love can involve more fear than you had ever imagined, and you never quite look on the world in the same way again.”
― Teresa Driscoll, I Am Watching You

“When corporate executives get really excited, they leverage their learnings against comprehension to revolutionize English.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia

“Above all, I didn't want to fall into the trap that Buddhists call idiot compassion - an apt phrase, given John's worldview. In idiot compassion, you avoid rocking the boat to spare people's feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honesty. People do this with teenagers, spouses, addicts, even themselves. Its opposite is wise compassion, which means caring about the person but also giving him or her a loving truth bomb when needed.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed