"Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the inside, that they were the fittest. For those on the outside, the fear and abandonment amounts to almost everything; everybody knows that. Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline."

-- Peter HÃ¸eg

#Understanding Quotes #Doe Quotes #Majority Quotes

“One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they were hated by their mother or father, your marriage will pay for it in ways both obvious and subtle. When the chips are down, when someone is sick or loses their job or gets scared, the old patterns will kick in and he will treat you the way he treated his mother or the way she treated him.”
“It's hard not to hate. People, things, institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed, hate is the only feeling that makes sense. That's what I need to tell you. To let you know how hard I'm trying not to cave under the weight of all the awful things I feel in my heart. When I look at my day, I realize most of it was spent cleaning up the damage of the day before. In that life I have no future. All I have is distraction and remorse.”
“I'm not sure that people want to go back to the womb. People want to go back to the teats of your mother and hear your mother's heartbeat.”
“Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.”
“In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.”
“It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.37, Penguin
“An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.”
“Itâ€™s hard to think of another field in which experience is considered a liability and those who know the least about the nuts and bolts of an enterprise are embraced as experts.”

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