“Whatever happens next, I'm sure it's going to be a great adventure.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“You're supposed to raise your friends up, not be happy when they fail.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“At the end, you find the beginning.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“I'm a teenager, and we mess up sometimes.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“Sometimes you have to control your own life and to do that you have to put your own needs first.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“You need to take control of your own destiny.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“Being discreet has never been your strong suit.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“Change happens whether you want it to or not. And sometimes, like now, it's for the best.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“You never know what you'll find out about yourself when you stretch outside your comfort zone.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
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“هويتي هي ما يجعلني غير مُتماثل مع أي شخص آخر”
― Amin Maalouf, quote from In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
“.. From there we came to love. We told each other what lovers never tire of hearing and needing to say.”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Enduring Love
“The faculty of re-solution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it which, unjustly, and merely on account of its retrograde operations, has been called, as if par excellence, analysis. Yet to calculate is not in itself to analyse. A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. It follows that the game of chess, in its effects upon mental character, is greatly misunderstood. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random; I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound. The attention is here called powerfully into play. If it flag for an instant, an oversight is committed resulting in injury or defeat. The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers. In draughts, on the contrary, where the moves are unique and have but little variation, the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, and the mere attention being left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen. To be less abstract, let us suppose a game of draughts where the pieces are reduced to four kings, and where, of course, no oversight is to be expected. It is obvious that here the victory can be decided (the players being at all equal) only by some recherché movement, the result of some strong exertion of the intellect. Deprived of ordinary resources, the analyst throws himself into the spirit of his opponent, identifies himself therewith, and not unfrequently sees thus, at a glance, the sole methods (sometime indeed absurdly simple ones) by which he may seduce into error or hurry into miscalculation.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales
“But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.”
― Karen Maitland, quote from Company of Liars
“The Son of Man goes forth to war, A golden crown to gain; His blood-red banner streams afar— Who follows in his train?” I”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Man Who Would Be King
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