“There are no coincidences. And everything means something.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Robbie turned to the house again. "Got a flashlight?"
"Of course not." I smirked. "That would make me too well prepared, wouldn't it?”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Stay here!" he commanded me, then he raced off after Cal.
I stopped for just a moment. Then I ran after them.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Years from now I'll look back and remember today as the day I met him. I'll look back and remember the exact moment my life began to include him. I will remember it forever.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.”
― Clayton M. Christensen, quote from How Will You Measure Your Life?
“It was starting to feel like a hair pulling, bitch slapping kind of fight. I needed to take it to the next level.”
― Trina M. Lee, quote from Once Bitten
“Right now what I need to think about is what would be possible, not all the reasons I can't make a change.”
― John Wood, quote from Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
“I think of how and where all the horrible people I've come across in my life ended up, and I smile.”
― Corey Taylor, quote from Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
“There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, quote from Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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