“The truth can deceive as well as a lie.”
― The Winner's Curse
― The Winner's Curse
“You should be careful" I tell Yukiko. "The thing about taking something that's not yours is that there will always be someone out there ready to take it back."
"I suppose I'll have to watch my back, then."
"No need," I tell her. "I can see it perfectly.”
― To Kill a Kingdom
"I suppose I'll have to watch my back, then."
"No need," I tell her. "I can see it perfectly.”
― To Kill a Kingdom
“People don’t tell secrets because someone needs to know them. They do it because they need someone to tell.”
― To Kill a Kingdom
― To Kill a Kingdom
“You are a little heartless today, aren't you?"
"Never," I say. "There are seventeen under my bed.”
― To Kill a Kingdom
"Never," I say. "There are seventeen under my bed.”
― To Kill a Kingdom
“I’m a sociable introvert. I enjoy coffee dates and Christmas parties and weddings and neighborhood picnics. I love noisy family dinners and hosting playdates and chatting with other parents on the baseball sidelines. I get a little restless when I don’t get regular doses of social interaction. But when I get out of balance—when I spend too much time extraverting, according to my personal definition of “too much”—I am useless. When I ignore the warning signs and keep extraverting until I enter the Overtalked Introvert Danger Zone, I get totally overwhelmed and borderline rude and can barely string sentences together. I wish I were exaggerating.”
― Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything
― Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything
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