kookyquinn

“the heart doesn’t listen to reason. It has a mind of its own and the last thing it will do before it feels something is consult with you on whether or not to feel it. It beats without you telling it to, from inside your mother’s womb, all the way till death. It beats and beats and goes on like a tireless machine and when it chooses who it loves, you don’t have a fucking chance. The heart decides what love is, no matter what the mind says.”
― Karina Halle, My Life in Shambles

“All I’m asking is for you to have mercy on me, wife. If there is a battle to fight, a villain to face, I beg you to allow me the honor. Because the cruelest thing you could do, is sentence me to a world without you in it.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, How To Love A Duke in Ten Days

“Internal employees have trouble accepting being managed, and generally do not need praise to stay motivated. Working for a "micro-manager" would be torture. Their motivation comes from inside; they are self-starters. They need to make their own decisions and will do that even when they have not been given permission. They become demotivated when they do not get to decide anything. When you give them an instruction, they will consider that as a piece of information and then decide whether to follow it.”
― Shelle Rose Charvet, Words That Change Minds: The 14 Patterns for Mastering the Language of Influence

“Sometimes getting what you want most is the worst thing that can happen.”
― Elisa Braden, The Madness of Viscount Atherbourne