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1 " How you do anything is how you do everything. "
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , Dark Horse (Orphan X, #7)
2 " NEXT TIME.” The two best words in the English language. Freedom and possibility. Progress, not perfection. Just do something a little bit better than the last go-round and your place in the world would get a little bit clearer. "
3 " You are good at this. Most men are not. Or at least that’s what they tell themselves until they believe it. And so they can use incompetence to get out of work. "
4 " Most husbands seek to kill their wives’ loves so we’ll love only them. They are insecure little boys. "
5 " It has nothing to do with rough or gentle. Privileged or broke, everyone has their own path to the light. Sometimes those of us who came up hard are forced to see what actually matters. If we survive, that is. The world doesn’t allow us not to see. We are forced into understanding, into grace. It’s either that or prison, or drugs, or the cold, hard earth. "
6 " What we resist pursues us. What we accept transforms us. "
7 " You’re very close with your nephew.” “Yes. Sometimes there are special relationships like that in families, you know?” He did not. She continued, “Where there is no static in the line. You just get each other. "
8 " Maturity is graduating from the belief that the world misunderstands you to the awareness that you misunderstand the world. "
9 " He considered. “When you come into a situation, don’t want anything. Don’t want approval. Don’t want to scare people. Don’t want anyone to like you. Don’t need to prove anything to them or make them angry. Then you can see what’s really happening. "
10 " In fact, South Texas and Alaska might be the last places in the country where law enforcement would want to roll up on a property and have a look-see. "
11 " That is the awful, beautiful, sacrificial power of love. We sharpen ourselves against those we love in order to cut ourselves open and see what’s inside. Sometimes I wonder if wisdom is nothing more than shortening the time before you realize how ignorant you are about something. "
12 " Women are fucking Swiss Army knives. Throw anything at them and they figure out which part of them to use to fix it, care for it, make it better. They can hear if a baby’s cough is just a cough, can smell if something’s burning in the next room. They can see when our arrogance is serving us. And point out when it’s not. "
