"Right now, I wish Iâ€™d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I donâ€™t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leavingâ€”that you love me, but you donâ€™t need me. You donâ€™t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now."

-- Ann Aguirre

#Selfish Quotes #Mean Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“And it was there that I saw the most appealing creature in the whole shop. He had a slight chink out of one foot and his 'topknot' was missing (a 'topknot' is on the top of a dragon's head and looks a bit like a shark's fin) but I bought him in an instant.”
“Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.”
“I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. It's not done! You don't go out of your house without any clothes on, and a minotaur doesn't go into the world without a labyrinth to keep him warm.”
“To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.”

Source : Giovanni Boccaccio (1999). “The Decameron”, Signet
“I believe life takes us where we need to be.”
“All three of our major religions in Britain ~ Christianity, Islam and Judaism - have a hateful idea at the very core. That idea is Exclusion: the "othering," if you like, of the unredeemed.”
“Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And were trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.”
“Ensuring a healthy future means investing in the generation who will carry that future.”

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