"... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future."

--

Source : Jane Green (2002). “Bookends: A Novel”, p.188, Broadway Books

Jane Green

#Waiting Quotes #Abuse Quotes #Domestic Violence Quotes

“Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.”

Source : 1914-15 Aphorisms.
“What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.”
“The media builds you up, and then it tears you down.”
“People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.”
“It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.”

Source : ""Living on Mir: An Interview with Dr. Shannon Lucid". Interview with Patrick Meyer, www.encyclopedia.com. March 1998.
“If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.”
“I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person.”
“Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.”

Source : Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont “Beauty and the BeastLa Belle et la Bête English-French Parallel Text Edition”, Lulu.com

You may also like:

Emily Giffin
Author
Helen Fielding
Novelist
James Patterson
Author
Jennifer Weiner
Writer
Lauren Weisberger
Novelist
Marian Keyes
Novelist
Mary Kay Andrews
Writer
Meg Cabot
Author
Sophie Kinsella
Author