Quotes
Authors
Rosa Montero

"One of the things that troubles me the most in life, that upsets all of us, is that we reach this world with the capability to be anything. But then life starts to confine us inside our small realities. And then, the shadow of those other possible lives stays to lurk us and you can't shake it off, since it was so easy, it'd have been so easy to lead another life. We make twenty thousand small choices a day, and maybe one of those choices is the one that will take us to a completely different life. If you stop to think about it, it is vertiginous, hypnotizing and distressing."

-- Rosa Montero

#Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Choices Quotes

“To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.”
“How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.
“When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Gate Thief”, p.40, Macmillan
“Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?”
“Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by observation. So he reasons, compares facts, puts questions to them, and by the answers which he extracts, tests one by another. This sort of control, by means of reasoning and facts, is what constitutes experiment, properly speaking; and it is the only process that we have for teaching ourselves about the nature of things outside us.”
“Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. Youâ€™ll make mistakes along the way, but thatâ€™s where growth and forgiveness come in.”
“Cormoran Strike is an amazing creation and I can't wait for his next outing. Strike is so instantly compelling that it's hard to believe this is a debut novel. I hope there are plenty more Cormoran Strike adventures to come. A beautifully written debut novel introducing one of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years.”
“I think that the good thing about working smaller and being a smaller company that doesn't have to make as much to make money back is that you don't have to worry about, well, critics like this and they'll tell people to buy it, but millions of people might say, 'Oh, well I'm not interested in that subject matter' and we're sunk.”

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