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1 " the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. "
― Michael Robotham , The Other Wife (Joseph O'Loughlin, #9)
2 " If I wanted to talk to a bearded man with delusions of grandeur, I’d ask my barista how his band is doing. "
3 " Haven’t you heard – fat isn’t the killer any more. Now I can eat more pork than Kermit. "
4 " In a deep psychological sense, we have no self unless we have a secret. "
5 " David. "
6 " I’ve heard it said that you can discover how you feel about someone when you watch them sleeping. You see things you don’t look for at other times. The elegance of an open mouth, the absence of anxiety, the vulnerability of each breath, a small vein pulsing beneath her pale skin. "
7 " Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.’ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray "
8 " We should wish our children full lives, jam-packed with triumph and tragedy, boredom and excitement, beautiful, messy, passionate and worth celebrating. I "
9 " but we often meet our fate on the road we take to avoid it. "
10 " In a deep psychological sense, we have no self unless we have a secret. We grab for them whenever we begin losing ourselves in our social group or work or marriage. We reassert our identity as somebody apart. "
11 " Remember, Joseph, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. "
12 " Men always imagine that women are bonded by ideas of sisterhood and solidarity, but we pick our fights and our friends. "
13 " I apologise. There are many medical myths. People believe that sweating gets rid of toxins, or that reading in poor light damages eyesight, or we shouldn't go swimming after eating, or shaving hair makes it grow back thicker & draker. It's not true. Cold weather doesn't give us more colds. Coffee doesn't sober you up. Your heart doesn't stop when you sneeze. And one arsehole isn't any smarter than another, although proctology isn't really my field. "
14 " All parents disappoint us eventually. "
15 " How do I explain to someone like my mother that love and hate are not absolutes, or opposite sides of the same coin. Hate is an evil passion and love an inspired one, "