“You remember the word we said when we pressed our hands together, right?"
I nodded. Forem. But what does it mean?"
"Forever,” he said his breath shaky. "It means we're bonded together forever.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Underworld
“Everyone will hurt you if you let them in.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Underworld
“I’m not sure I know how to feel happy yet. Well, I mean sometimes when I look at the stars I think I might feel happy…but”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Underworld
“I mean, was there really a difference between death and losing every ounce of who you are?”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Underworld
“The next thing I knew I was laying face first on the ground,”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Underworld
“Forever,” he said, his breath shaky. “It means we’re bonded together forever.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Underworld
“The hour between dog and wolf, that is, dusk, when the two can’t be distinguished from each other, suggests a lot of other things besides the time of day…The hour in which…every being becomes his own shadow, and thus something other than himself. The hour of metamorphoses, when people half hope, half fear that a dog will become a wolf. The hour that comes down to us from at least as far back as the early Middle Ages, when country people believed that transformation might happen at any moment.”
― Jean Genet, quote from Prisoner of Love
“He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of negotiation.”
― Chris Voss, quote from Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
“If you let the news spoil your appetite, there wouldn’t be a day you could eat.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from The Silent Corner
“I was tired of concealing the truth from everyone. I was tired of keeping the loneliness and sadness inside my head.”
― Laura Creedle, quote from The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily
“Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can—if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong—to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition.”
― Richard Feynman, quote from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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