"I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that."

-- Bernard Beckett

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“I think it's important that models be healthy.”
“I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.”
“I've learned that each time you go through a breakup, the pain isn't any more or less intense or hard, but the way you process and get back up can be different when you learn the tools to get yourself back to equilibrium. There are so many lessons that can be learned during times of heartbreak, and there's an opportunity to grow and become more emotionally healthy.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 14, 2015
“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”
“I'm smart cause I'm Korean, I'm not so smart cause I'm from the south. They cancel each other out, so I'm even.”
“Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.”

Source : Song: Everybody's Free
“Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.”

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