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"Your job is obviously very pressured.""I thrive under pressure," I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since...Well. Ever since my mother told me when I was about 8."
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"The sky won't shed tears if stars refuse to shine, it will wait for the sun."
"Challenges are part of life;We weaken our spirit, when we act in fear and lose hope. But we strengthen our spirit, when we fearlessly with faith and hope, rise up to meet and conquer the challenges."
"When life is sweet, be thankful, and rejoice; but when bitter, be strong, and persevere."
"Don't be a victim of circumstances. Choose victory by gracious endurance."
"Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important."
"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
"She survived it. She was able to survive it, because she did not believe in suffering. She faced with astonished indignation the ugly fact of feeling pain, and refused to let it matter. Suffering was a senseless accident, it was not part of life as she saw it."
"Determination in spite of the challenge makes us stronger."
"Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart."
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"I would like a cappuccino," says Linus politely. "Thank you.""Your name?""I'll spell it for you," he says. "Z-W-P-A-E-N--""What?" She stares at him, Sharpie in hand."Wait, I haven't finished. Double F-hyphen-T-J-U-S. It's an unusual name, Linus adds gravely. "It's Dutch."
"You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red."
"It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to."
"As I stare at it,I can feel little invisible strings,silently tugging me toward it. I have to touch it. I have to wear it. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."
"If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband."
"When the dog bites, when the bee stings... I simply remember I have a boyfriend and suddenly things don't seem quite so completely shit."
"There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out."
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