Diane

“we have to focus on making good decisions, not perfect decisions. A good decision is one that moves you in the direction you want to go.”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

“Stop!’, quickly followed by physical movement, such as standing up and moving away from the position you are in.”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

“My understanding of dating,' " he said,, "is that it is like trying on clothes for fit, except the clothes are people."

"That's a pretty brutal way of putting it, but I suppose so."

"What happens if the fit is wrong?"

"Well. People break up. They stop seeing another. And start over with someone else.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“Here, Elizabeth thought, was an answer for her strange new client. How could United Airlines make its customers happy with a below-average experience? By making the experience much, much worse, and making people voluntarily choose to endure it. This was the solution! Make the seats even narrower, the lines even longer, the competition for overhead space even more cutthroat—make it all famously bad and then tell people that they could avoid all of it and have a more or less normally below-average experience for a modest fee. Thus, if they knew beforehand that the experience would be dreadful but they didn’t pay the fee to avoid it, they would be less unhappy about the dreadful experience because, ultimately, they chose to have it. They did it to themselves. It”
― Nathan Hill, Wellness