Michael Patton

“Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“What’s counterintuitive is, because I’m such a fuck-up, when I’m in the pits, some part of me doesn’t want to climb out. Yes, it’s bloody awful down here, but at the same time nobody’s making demands of me, not even myself.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elder Race

“Her father had once told her he hoped she found someone who made her smile. Just that. No fireworks like in tales and ballads. He didn’t wish her the shiver of romance or the endless ache of desire. “You should marry your best friend,” he told her. All those grand emotions”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People