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He said we could not engage in unethical behavior in anticipation of the illegal behavior of others.
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks-- we're so involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“Who would have thought that who you love and who you feel safe with might not be the same person?”
― Little Secrets
― Little Secrets
“Girls need love, not braids.”
― A Princess for Christmas
― A Princess for Christmas
“His world shrank so those lips were the world. That rosebud. That heart. He swooped in, but stopped just short of her mouth, so the steam from his breath joined with hers. Waited. Because although he had come, rather rapidly, to his "fuck it" revelation, that didn't mean she had.
He hoped she had. Please let her have.
There were only a few millimeters between them.
She closed the gap.
It was different this time. This was premeditated, and they were in her secret place in the middle of the goddamn Alps.”
― A Princess for Christmas
He hoped she had. Please let her have.
There were only a few millimeters between them.
She closed the gap.
It was different this time. This was premeditated, and they were in her secret place in the middle of the goddamn Alps.”
― A Princess for Christmas
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