I used to think I sewed us together at the edges with my own hands, pulled the stitches … - Tana French

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The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

Tana French

I used to think I sewed us together at the edges with my own hands, pulled the stitches tight and I could unpick them any time I wanted. Now I think it always ran deeper than that and farther, underground; out of sight and way beyond my control.

Hands, Sight, Think, Thinking, Underground

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I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.

Baby, Claims, Makeup, Men, Prettily, Strong Women

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

Brain, Brains, Girl, Manage, Personality, Uggo

Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor, their clothes, everything – taking it for granted that that’s the whole point of life. Never to be satisfied. If you are perfectly happy with what you got, especially if what you got isn’t even all the spectacular then you’re dangerous. You’re breaking all the rules. You’re undermining the sacred economy. You’re challenging every assumption that society is built on.

Built, Clothes, Home, People, Satisfied, Undermining

I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

Knack, People, Talent, Work

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

Anxiety, Everyone, Lifetime, Mazes, Wondering, Worry

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Guy Finley

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

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A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

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Barbara Bush

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

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Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'

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