“Because you are just a pawn. And a pawn can’t help but get played.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“This is yours,” he said, pressing my hand more tightly to his chest. “And I don’t give it lightly.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“Perv—I’ve gotten upgraded from stalker.' Wasn’t he the eternal optimist?”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“I love all of you Ember—the ferocious, beautiful girl I first laid eyes on, the fiery girl who punched me in the face when I threw off her sheets, the penitent girl I found curled up in the shower, the curious girl who questioned a wanted man’s guilt, the brave girl who pushed me down when she saw a gun, and the secretive girl who thinks she needs to carry the world on her shoulders.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“God, he’s sexy. No wonder he was a little shit all the time.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“Ember, the bad comes in with the good. And I want all of it—I want your secrets, your worry, your pain. I love you—you’re not alone in this life.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“The government had been controlling my nightly visits.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“They’d given me a blowtorch. Idiots.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“Someone so annoying didn’t deserve to look that good.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“I met his eyes. “Easily. I could love you easily.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“eyebrows rose. “I’m just going to throw this out there, but I’m okay with being taken advantage of.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“I never listened to those who told me about the dark side of loving your pair.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“I love you too.” Funny how those words got easier to say the more I voiced them.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“Guerilla warfare? I was in way over my head. I told myself that I could do this. It was guerilla warfare every time I went to sleep.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“Caden might be my partner, but he was also the enemy.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“Jesus. It was worth it,” Caden said, looking dazed and pleased.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
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“rising up starkly over the snowy plain, and that the plebs were flocking out”
― Robert Harris, quote from Conspirata
“I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.”
― Khaled Hosseini, quote from Tisuću žarkih sunaca
“Remember and Share - The Investment Phase is the fourth step in the Hook Model. - Unlike the Action Phase, which delivers immediate gratification, the Investment Phase is about the anticipation of rewards in the future. - Investments in a product create preference because of our tendency to overvalue our work, be consistent with past behaviors, and avoid cognitive dissonance. - Investment comes after the variable reward phase when users are primed to reciprocate. - Investments increase the likelihood of users returning by improving the service the more it is used. They enable the accrual of stored value in the form of content, data, followers, reputation or skill. - Investments increase the likelihood of users passing through the Hook again by loading the next trigger to start the cycle all over again. *** Do This Now Refer to the answers you came up with in the last “Do This Now” section to complete the following exercises: - Review your flow. What “bit of work” are your users doing to increase their likelihood of returning? - Brainstorm three ways to add small investments into your product to: - Load the next trigger - Store value as data, content, followers, reputation and skill - Identify how long it takes for a “loaded trigger” to re-engage your users. How can you reduce the delay to shorten cycle-time through the Hook?”
― Nir Eyal, quote from Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Rollercoasters: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Reader
“When we direct our attention toward our suffering, we see our potential for happiness. We see the nature of suffering and the way out. That is why the Buddha called suffering a holy truth. When we use the word “suffering” in Buddhism, we mean the kind of suffering that can show us the way out.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from Trái tim của Bụt
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