Jingo

“You cannot say ‘no’ to the people you love, not often. That’s the secret.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“My worth had been determined from without, by how I imagined that I appeared to others. That is what being a social animal is, after all. Emotional and definitional interdependence.”
― James S.A. Corey, The Vital Abyss

“they’d all died anyway.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes

“At the time I gave more weight to the opinions of others.”
― James S.A. Corey, The Vital Abyss