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“I like to here my own sex praised but not the other.”
Source : Marjorie Fleming (1935). “The complete Marjory Fleming: her journals, letters & verses”
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“When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.”
Source : Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish, Joanna Faber (2012). “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk”, p.33, Simon and Schuster
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“It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. As a matter of experience, we find that true happiness comes in seeking other things, in the manifold activities of life, in the healthful outgoing of all human powers.”
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“You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.”
Source : Peter Abrahams (2009). “End of Story”, p.4, Harper Collins
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“Today, it may seem as if there are demons attacking me from within. I should remember that demons are illusory, and that when I think that I'm being attacked by unseen forces, it probably just means that I am going insane.”
Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.
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“As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?”
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“He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker in the red T-shirt who'd whistled at her but she'd pretended she hadn't heard; he was the men in three-piece suits whose brains were as sexy as their bodies; he was lazy, indolent seventeen-year-old boys whose muscles bulged out of their clothes, rodeo stars, and those smooth-cheeked, eyeglassed men who held their children tenderly. He was all of them.”
Source : Jude Deveraux (2012). “Sweet Liar”, p.255, Simon and Schuster
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“It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers.”
Source : Marjorie Hillis (2011). “Orchids On Your Budget: Or Live Smartly on What You Have”, p.34, Hachette UK
