"So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? IÂ´ve got some tools"

-- Julianna Baggott

#Heart Quotes #Personality Quotes #Tools Quotes

“I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.233, Dial Press
“If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of the Chinese or the Muslims. The reality is that we have caused our own problems. Whatever has happened has been caused by isolating ourselves or blaming others.”
“First we only want to be seen, but once weâ€™re seen, thatâ€™s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.”

Source : "Station Eleven: A novel". Book by Emily St. John Mandel, 2014.
“Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.”
“A black belt is a white belt who never quits!”
“It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”

Source : Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”
“The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.”
“I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?”

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