"God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us."

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Source : Sue Grafton (2006). “S is for Silence: A Kinsey Millhone Novel”, p.366, Penguin

Sue Grafton

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“Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.”
“To all the survivors out there, I want them to know that we are stronger and more resilient than we ever knew. We survived, that should be enough but it isn't. We must work hard to become whole again, to fill our soul with love and inspiration, to live the life that was intended for us before it was disrupted by war and horrors, and help rebuild a world that is better than the one we had just left.”
“He giggled like a puppy being tickled by a kitten wearing a duckling costume.”

Source : Jim Benton (2013). “Dear Dumb Diary #11: Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers”, p.64, Scholastic
“Iâ€™m quite flirtatious with anyone. Some people, because Iâ€™m playing a gay character, get quite nervous. And I have to reassure them. Iâ€™m like, â€˜Iâ€™m not gay. Iâ€™m not coming on to you. Yet.â€™”
“I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.”
“We need to shut down this Gitmo prison? Well, don't shut it down -- we just need to start an advertising campaign. We need to call it, "Gitmo, the Muslim resort." Any resort that treated people like this would have ads all over the New York Times trying to get people to come down and visit for some R&R, for some rest and relaxation.”
“Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.”
“and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to yourself in a glimmer of rainfall or frost, the burnt smell of autumn, a meeting of parallel lines, and know you were someone else for the longest time, pretending you knew where you were, like a diffident tourist, lost on the one main square, and afraid to enquire.”

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