Vani Bhoopathy

“There was an old joke—it’s not the fall that kills you but the abrupt stop.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, The Short Drop

“Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations. And because your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will, if you entertain too much anxiety about too many things, if you place no trust in providence, what you fear will more often come to pass. We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse

“If you don’t have anything nice to say, take a big bite and chew slow.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, The Short Drop

“there are kings and there are kingmakers. Regardless of what populist history might argue, you rarely have one without the other.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, The Short Drop