“Are you a female dog?"
"What?" Massie asked. "Why?"
"Because you are acting like a real bitch!”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
“Claire, did I invite you to my barbeque?" Massie asked, her neck tilting to the right and her arms tightly crossed.
"Huh? No. I mean, I don't know," Claire said.
"Then why are you all up in my grill?" Massie said through her teeth.”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
“Sorry, No conprendo I don't speak Loser.”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
“The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
“Bean, what's one step worse then a fashion don't?....a fashion don't even THINK about it.”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
“These girls want nothing to do with last season's clothes.”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
“I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
Lisi Harrison
Born place: Toronto, Canada
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“He's forbidden fruit, and I'm Eve standing in front of the apple”
― Jessica Clare, quote from Last Hit
“Someone has described religious warfare as “killing people over who has the best invisible friend.”
― quote from The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
“Why should caring for others begin with the self? There is an abundance of rather vague ideas about this issue, which I am sure neuroscience will one day resolve. Let me offer my own “hand waving” explanation by saying that advanced empathy requires both mental mirroring and mental separation. The mirroring allows the sight of another person in a particular emotional state to induce a similar state in us. We literally feel their pain, loss, delight, disgust, etc., through so-called shared representations. Neuroimaging shows that our brains are similarly activated as those of people we identify with. This is an ancient mechanism: It is automatic, starts early in life, and probably characterizes all mammals. But we go beyond this, and this is where mental separation comes in. We parse our own state from the other’s. Otherwise, we would be like the toddler who cries when she hears another cry but fails to distinguish her own distress from the other’s. How could she care for the other if she can’t even tell where her feelings are coming from? In the words of psychologist Daniel Goleman, “Self-absorption kills empathy.” The child needs to disentangle herself from the other so as to pinpoint the actual source of her feelings.”
― Frans de Waal, quote from The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
“You suck at crying, anyway,” I say. “Five tears and you’re done? I could’ve stretched that out for twenty minutes, at least.”
― Sarah Lyons Fleming, quote from All the Stars in the Sky
“No matter how deep in disgrace, a human being IS human, after all.”
― quote from Autobiography of a Geisha
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