None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

It was pleasant - and the sense of otherness was nice, that there were two people involved in this process, that we were each giving something to the other.

…the most devastating thing Finney could have said. Not that Peter was hated by his father. But that he'd been loved all along. He'd interpreted kindness as cruelty, generosity as meanness, support...

As we ride the elevator Gale finally says "You're still angry." "And you're still not sorry," I reply. "I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?" he asks. "No, I want you to...

"No. No, I don't want my hands restrained." "Yes. You do."

It seems you want me at your mercy, Princess. Question is, why? No, she whispered, question is do I?

Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you deal with that?

Don't blame if people are too harsh on you, maybe they have been hurt badly before.

If you don't know how to deal with emotion, other people's feelings can hit you like a drug.

If you ever pull a switcheroo like that again, Dee, I'm going to offer your boyfriend ten thousand dollars to make out with Alice for two minutes.

She {Mme des Laumes} belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does.

Maybe the real issue here is that we were not created to do life by ourselves. We were not given a sentence of solitary confinement and placed in a world of isolation, but from the moment we entered...

You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with her beautiful clothes with her pale face that laughs at everyone who smiles at...

Momiji Sohma: Are you sure? Shigure said it hurt really bad. Hatori Sohma: Yes, well, I did that on purpose.

On the way out to the car, Philip turns to me. "How could you be so stupid?" I shrug, stung in spite of myself. "I thought I grew out of it." Philip pulls out his key fob and presses the remote to...

"Your friend Lila is calling from her car phone," Ned said, half amused and half annoyed. "Apparently something earth-shattering has come up, and unless she can talk to you this very second, she...

"Say it, Gregori," she bit out between clenched teeth. "I need to hear you say it."

"To be fair to Monica," I said, "what you did to her wasn't very nice either." "What'd I do to her?" he asked, defensive. "You know, going blind and everything." "But that's not my fault," Isaac said....

"Insults are only really effective," she said, "when the person insulted cares for the good opinion of the insulter."

Seeking advice is a subtle way to invite someone to make a commitment to us.

"Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!"

"Don't touch me. It makes my skin crawl." {Grace}...

There will be two ships sailing, but you'll be on the Resolution, with Cook himself. Never put yourself in his way. Never speak to him. And if you do speak to him, which you must never do, certainly...

Sometimes I get to know myself through others

The hours we spent in the workshop are hours I will never forget. My feelings, throughout that entire period, oscillated between the purest love and the most unrestrained hatred, faced with the...

you used to do that. If you hid your face, you thought we couldn't see you just because you couldn't see us.

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.

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