“That is almost always the way with stories. True to their very core, even when the events and the people in them are different.”
“Men may irritate women entirely by accident, but I believe they infuriate one another wholly by design.”
“There can be no scholar without the heroic mind.”
“To be connected to the world is a constant, difficult labor.”
“Some things (and people) go elsewhere and soon return. Others go elsewhere and appear to want to stay. In those cases, the only solution for the very determined is to find them: to go elsewhere and bring them back.”
“She was one part melancholy kindness, two parts mysterious unease.”
“The neocortex allows for the subtlety and complexity of emotional life, such as the ability to have feelings about our feelings.”
“The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.”
“Never let anyone lower your goals. Others' expectations of you are determined my their limitations of life. The sky is your limit, sons. Always shoot for the sun, and you will shine.”
“I still feel really bad about it,” said Jessie. “That’s good,” said Grandma.”
“I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.”
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