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“will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty”
― Jacqueline Wilson, Sapphire Battersea

“In order to have important conversations, you will sometimes have to check your opinions at the door. There is no belief so strong that it cannot be set aside temporarily in order to learn from someone who disagrees. Don’t worry; your beliefs will still be there when you’re done.”
― Celeste Headlee, We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter

“Also people think they're not computers because they have feelings and computers don't have feelings. But feeling are just having a picture on the screen in your head of what is going to happen tomorrow or next year, or what might have happened instead of what did happened, and if it is a happy picture they smile and if it is a sad picture they cry.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“it seems like we rarely converse anymore. I mean, we talk and we chat (often over text or e-mail), but we don’t really hash things out. We spend a lot of time avoiding uncomfortable conversations and not enough time making an effort to understand the people who live and work around us.”
― Celeste Headlee, We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter