Life gets to be a burden … if you live long enough you’ll find that out for yourself.
– from Fairy Tale book by Stephen King
Patience. Patience. With patience comes choice …
Patience. Patience. With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power.
– from All The Devils Are Here book by Louise Penny
Nature paints her canvas, then you …
Nature paints her canvas, then you come along and think you can improve it. No. Nature is supposed to be, pardon the wordage, wild. You tame it, you lose what makes it special.
– from The Boy from the Woods book by Harlan Coben
The complicated thing about good and …
The complicated thing about good and bad people alike is that most of us can be both at the same time.
– from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
As you get older, you realise …
As you get older, you realise that you never get away with things. The human mind has its own … prisons.
– from How to Stop Time book by Matt Haig
Inspiration is perishable – act on …
Inspiration is perishable – act on it immediately.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
Real shrewdness means not letting any …
Real shrewdness means not letting any shrewdness show. It’s not like in the movies. The truly astute don’t sit in the shadows all day striking a pose. They don’t show off that they’re using their brains. They look all carefree and innocent. Some of them are tacky and mawkish, others careless and unserious. What’s critical is not to let others think you’re a person of interest. Let them look down on you or dismiss you and they won’t feel you’re an obstacle. You’re just a broom in the corner. The pinnacle of this is to make them not notice you at all, as if you don’t exist until the moment right before they die at your hands.
– from The Dark Forest book by Cixin Liu
Part of a mother’s duty was …
Part of a mother’s duty was to be her daughter’s first, best critic; to fortify her during her childhood, so that in womanhood she could gracefully withstand any assault or insult launched in her direction.
– from The God of the Woods book by Liz Moore
The first people to break the …
The first people to break the laws of bureaucracy are always the bureaucrats themselves.
– from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
I’ve been through so much since …
I’ve been through so much since I wandered the Louisiana woods as a child. I’ve made music, traveled all over the world, become a mother, found love and lost it and found it again. It’s been a while since I felt truly present in my own life, in my own power, in my womanhood. But I’m here now.
– from The Woman in Me book by Britney Spears