Brooke

“That was my gift. Not strength or speed. Stamina. I never got bored. Whatever I was doing, I could keep doing it forever. I liked it. I locked into each task, and stayed at it until I got it right.”
― Maria Sharapova

“I believed, in her strange way, that she had loved us both, but we had become dispensable. Something other than blind emotion directed her actions after all. Perhaps she was two persons, torn in two, first one having sway and then the other.”
― Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel

“We eat when we’re not hungry, drink when we’re not thirsty, buy what we don’t need, and throw away everything that’s useful. Don’t sell a man what he wants—sell him what he doesn’t want. Pretend he’s got eight feet and two stomachs and money to burn. That’s not illogical—it’s evil.”
― Paul Theroux, The Mosquito Coast

“If they Stand Behind you, Protect Them
If they Stand Beside you, Respect Them
If they Stand Against you, Defeat them”
― Viking Saying