Valleri

“Marriages, like dreams, didn't just happen; you had to do some work to get there”
― Faith Hogan, The Guest House by the Sea

“Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“During a meeting with Arnav’s team, he latched onto the term “end effector,” which signifies the claws at the end of a robotic arm. Except Sunny didn’t hear “end effector,” he heard “endofactor.” For the rest of the meeting, he kept referring to the fictional endofactors. At their next meeting with Sunny two weeks later, Arnav’s team brought a PowerPoint presentation titled “Endofactors Update.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

“He sounded concerned. “Don't do anything foolish," he said. “Don’t risk your life. No dog, not even Jet, is worth that.”

[ couldn’t quite agree with that. In my book a man should be as willing to risk his life to save a dog from suffering as he would to save a person. I suppose that sounds immature, or at least sentimental. But I know that if a barn full of horses was on fire, I’d work just as hard to save it as if the barn was full of people.”
― Mel Ellis, Ghost Dog of Killicut