"Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive."

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Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin

A.S.A. Harrison

#People Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“What I do is live, how I pray is breathe, what I wear is pants.”
“From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.”
“Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2011). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.24, Hachette UK
“I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.”
“I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.”
“You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism andâ€” "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?”
“Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.”
“Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.”

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