"Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite."

-- Jodi Picoult

#Lying Quotes #Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.”

Source : Sue Grafton (2010). “"A" is for Alibi”, p.8, Macmillan
“Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.”
“May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.”
“I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 19, 2015
“There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.”
“I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.”
“I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.”
“Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.”

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