"There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate."

-- Anne Hathaway

#People Quotes #Patterns Quotes #Desperate Quotes

“I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.”
“Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.”
“I have always been edified by Hebrew prayers.”
“It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.”
“Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.”
“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.”
“My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.”
“Nothing is nicer than diving with your eyes open. Diving down as far as the shimmering legs of your mother and father who have just come back from swimming and now are wading to shore through the shallow water. Nothing more fun than to tickle them and to hear, muffled by the water, how they shriek because they know it will make their child happy.”

Source : Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.62, Granta Books

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