Swan Anditya
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“. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.”
― The Inn at the Edge of the World
― The Inn at the Edge of the World
“You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
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“One time her father told her Shakespeare was really an Arab. 'Just look at his name: It's an Anglicization of Sheikh Zubayr,' he said with a straight face.”
― The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
― The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
“I believe in strong women. I believe in the woman who is able to stand up for herself. I believe in the woman who doesn't need to hide behind her husband's back. I believe that if you have problems, as a woman you deal with them, you don't play victim, you don't make yourself look pitiful, you don't point fingers. You stand and you deal. You face the world with a head held high and you carry the universe in your heart.”
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“In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel guilty rather than angry. Put in other terms, you become angry with yourself rather than with the one who hurt you.”
― Unmasking the Face
― Unmasking the Face
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