"The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures."

-- Sara Paretsky

#Pain Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Joy Quotes

“The least amount of buttons [in suit], the better. If you have to go with three, you can go three. But all that eight-button stuff? Nuh-uh, not a fan.”
“Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.”

Source : George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons
“The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.”
“The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.”
“...called nine-one-one," Howie was saying, "and then I heard something in the alleyway, so I went back there and" --Howie coughed-- "and valiantly attacked his knife with my guts, to no avail." "Did you get a good look at him? Could you describe him?" Howie smiled wanly. "Yeah. He was about yay long" --he held up his hands, four inches apart-- "thin, made of steel. Pointy. Sharp.”
“Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.”
“When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.”

Source : "Personality Clash: Kate Tempest x Loyle Carner". www.clashmusic.com. May 10, 2016.
“I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease...”

You may also like:

Faye Kellerman
Writer
James Lee Burke
Author
Lawrence Block
Writer
Linda Barnes
Writer
Mary Higgins Clark
Author
Robert B. Parker
Crime writer
Ruth Rendell
Baroness Rendell of Babergh
Sue Grafton
Author
Val McDermid
Crime writer