“Most of the time, we're loved for what we can do rather than for who we are. It's not such a bad thing, being loved for what you can do.'
'But the other is better.'
'Better. I hate to say better, but it is. If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.”
― Bel Canto
'But the other is better.'
'Better. I hate to say better, but it is. If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.”
― Bel Canto
“A philosopher once said, "It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results." Well, they don't!”
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“If I read this right, Gunther had not come to offer me congratulations. I will not give him the satisfaction of thinking me scared or insecure. I will fake calm, confident, and regal.”
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― To Be a Fae Queen
― To Be a Fae Queen
“the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
“It was the tone of a woman who wrapped needles in silk.”
― The Dog Walker: The Prequel
― The Dog Walker: The Prequel
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