"What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?"

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Justina Chen

#Gratitude Quotes #Self Quotes #Mutual Quotes

“Overslept and had to race to get a life to Jasâ€™s with my dad. No time for yoga or makeup. Oh well, Iâ€™ll start tomorrow. God alone knows how the Dalai Lama copes on a daily basis. He must get up at dawn. Actually, I read somewhere that he does get up at dawn.”
“As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?'”
“Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.”
“If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.”
“Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.”
“Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.161, Hachette UK
“Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.”
“However dangerous might be the shock of a comet, it might be so slight, that it would only do damage at the part of the Earth where it actually struck; perhaps even we might cry quits if while one kingdom were devastated, the rest of the Earth were to enjoy the rarities which a body which came from so far might bring it. Perhaps we should be very surprised to find that the debris of these masses that we despised were formed of gold and diamonds; but who would be the most astonished, we, or the comet-dwellers, who would be cast on our Earth? What strange being each would find the other!”

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