"There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing really, just a lame, hapless attempt at hurting herself. There hadn't even been that much blood and nobody at the hospital had been at all surprised. These scars, for some reason, he didn't mind. Maybe they even appealed to him. They showed that she was weak and in need of him."

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Source : Geoff Nicholson (1998). “Bleeding London”, p.62, The Overlook Press

Geoff Nicholson

#Hurt Quotes #Blood Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school.”

Source : "How Children Succeed". Book by Paul Tough, January 25, 2013.
“The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.”
“I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.”
“I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.”
“We all bear within us the potentiality for every kind of passion, every fate, every way of life. Nothing human is alien to us. If this were not so, we could not understand other people, either in life or in art. But inheritance and upbringing foster individual experiences and develop only a few of our thousands of possibilities. The others gradually sicken and die.”

Source : Max Reinhardt, Fraeda Parish (1973). “Max Reinhardt, 1873-1973: a centennial Festschrift of memorial essays and interviews on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth”
“Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.”
“When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Pardew has come out and criticized me. He is the worst at haranguing referees. He shoves them and makes a joke of it. How he can criticize me is unbelievable. He forgets the help I gave him, by the way. The press have had a field day. The only person they have not spoken to is Barack Obama because he is busy. It is unfortunate but I am the manager of the most famous club in the world. Not Newcastle, a wee club in the North-East. I was demonstrative. I am always demonstrative. Everyone knows that. I am an emotional guy but I was not abusive.”

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