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"I was far too nervous to be concerned about contributing to the conversations."
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"I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming."
"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."
"A fear is a reaction to a specific danger, to which the individual can make a specific adjustment. But what characterizes anxiety is the feeling of diffuseness and uncertainty and the experience of helplessness toward the threat."
"In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past."
"I made so many promises when I arrived here.Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm worried. Now my mind is a traitor because my thoughts crawl out of bed every morning with darting eyes and sweating palms and nervous giggles that sit in my chest, build in my chest, threaten to burst through my chest, and the pressure is tightening and tightening and tighteningLife around here isn't what I expected it to be."
"The butterflies are working their way up from my stomach into my head, making me feel dizzy, and I try to calm myself by imagining the ocean outside, its ragged breathing, the seagulls turning pinwheels in the sky.It will be over soon, I tell myself. It will be over soon and then you'll go home, and you'll never have to think about the evaluation again."
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"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home."
"It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks."
"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."
"The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive."
"There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan."
"It's easy to give up at the beginning of something, but after gaining a bit of momentum it's not as tempting or easy to just give up."
"Misadventure was my primary compass and I followed it without caring if I pissed off one person or a whole bunch of people."
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