"But why do you want to talk to me?' He is going to say: 'Because you look so kind,' or 'Because you look so beautiful and kind,' or, subtly, 'Because you look as if you'll understand....' He says: 'Because I think you won't betray me.' I had meant to get this mean to talk to me and tell me all about it, and then be so devastatingly English that perhaps I should manage to hurt him a little in return for all the many times I've been hurt.... 'Because I think you won't betray me, because I think you won't betray me....' Now it won't be so easy."

-- Jean Rhys

#Beautiful Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Mean Quotes

“To help others develop, start with yourself.”
“I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.”

Source : Terri Irwin (2008). “Steve & Me”, p.227, Simon and Schuster
“Great stories happen to those who can tell them.”
“We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.”
“I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time.”
“On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of whenÂ they begin telling their story.”

Source : Jerome Groopman (2008). “How Doctors Think”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.”

Source : Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.147, University of Chicago Press
“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.”

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