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"It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged."
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"How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life."

"What steps can you take to prepare before meeting others to ensure that when you do show up, you are bringing your very best to the table?"

"To cultivate bravery and courage, reduce uncertainty by being prepared. As Zig Ziglar once said, "Success happens when opportunity meets preparation. Preparing well for potential outcomes will provide you with a safety net if there is a hiccup, glitch, or temporary setback."

"The study book for life's tests is the whole of our experience. Though we mayfeel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them."

"Preparation will not only fortify your confidence to approach life from a position of strength, but it will impress other people as well."

"Equip yourself for your own needs."

"Annabeth came up to me. She was dressed in black camouflage with her Celestial bronze knife strapped to her arm and her laptop bag slung over her shoulder-ready for stabbing or surfing the Internet, whichever came first."

"He checked her over while mentally checking himself. "Environment suits sealed up. Breather masks in hand. Daemons. Blades. Transmitters. Healthy respect for the adversary-you've got that, right?One corner of her mouth curled up. "Absolutely."

"He who fails to understand that one should prepare for every single blessing will reap the problems connected with lack of preparation before the blessing."
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"She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash."

"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents."

"Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours."

"The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain."

"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."

"And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not queasiness or fear that he would suddenly appear before us, a green and gibbering banshee whose purpose was to drive us back the way we had come before we could disturb his- its- peace,but a sudden and unexpected wash of pity that he should be so alone and so defenceless in the dark that was now coming over our side of the world."

"Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is only another way of saying that he is the way she measures her sanity. Trying to imagine her life with him gone is like standing on top of a skyscraper and looking at the sidewalk sixty stories below."
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