"He caressed my cheek. "You came for me," I whispered. "Always," he told me."

-- Ilona Andrews

“Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.”
“Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.”
“I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.”
“Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.”

Source : Karen Karbo (2008). “How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.”
“To get the best out of your men, they must feel that you are their real leader and must know that they can depend upon you.”
“He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.”
“Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.”

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