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1 " The other thing that I loathed was the complete inability of most people to think critically. They accepted as gospel all kinds of things without ever objectively examining for themselves why they so fervently believed them. "
― Kimmery Martin , The Queen of Hearts
2 " Your past is set, but your future is wide open. "
3 " it’s the choices we make when we ignore our scornful intellects and follow our thumping hearts. "
4 " Soft puffs of warm air wafted around the corners of the side streets onto Tryon Street, as if being exhaled from some hidden lounging giant, capriciously ruffling hair and thrusting stray scraps of paper aloft, whirling them around like fall leaves. "
5 " I missed her even more than if she'd died. At least the dead cannot hate you. "
6 " Meetings are the enemy of progress. "
7 " You'd be a brilliant physician and a caring one no matter what. Now you'll be the most conscientious doctor you can be, because you know what it's like to fall into the depths. Maybe it seems easier to quit at this point, but, Zadie, you owe it to her to keep going. "
8 " Ours was a friendship forged when we were young, the kind that endures no matter what because losing it would be like losing an aspect of your own personality: your sense of humor or your ability to empathize. You wouldn't be the same person without your friend as your external hard drive. "
9 " Although scrubs seem designed to render the wearer as rectangular as possible, I knew that my figure still came across as feminine. I was lucky: I was curvy but slender, even though I ate like a starving carnivorous beast. "
