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“I was never good at school. Actually, I was an abject failure, below my peers in every way, incapable of meeting the bar. Maybe the bar was set in the wrong place. Maybe the school was the wrong kind. Maybe the teachers made the same mistake I made---focusing on your weaknesses instead of your strengths.”

School Failure Teachers

Book:The Mystery Guest

Source: The Mystery Guest

“Gran used to say, Never mind what others think; it's what you think that matters. And I agree. One must live by their own moral code, not follow like a sheep blindly.”

Wisdom Moral Code

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“Your worth is not determined through the worldly goods you possess. Nor is it ever decreased because someone refuses to see your value...You can't make people see what they don't want to see. And the most precious treasures are often overlooked.”

Value Worth Worthiness

Book:The Maid's Secret

Source: The Maid's Secret

“I’ll never understand it—why people find the truth more shocking than lies.”

Character Truth Lies Character Quotes The Maid

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“I've been called many a thing in my quarter century, and what I've learned is that the common expression about sticks and stones often hurt far less than words.”

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“That’s the trouble with pain. It’s a contagious as a disease. It spreads from the person who first endured it to those who love them most. Truth isn’t always the highest ideal’ sometimes it must be sacrificed to stop the spread of pain to those you love.”

Love Character Pain Character Quote The Maid

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“That's the trouble with pain. It's as contagious as a disease. It spreads from the person who first endured it to theose who love them most. Truth isn't always the highest ideal; sometimes it must be sacrificed to stop the spread of pain to those you love. Even children know this intuitively.”

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“People are a mystery that can never be solved.”

Character The Maid Nita Prose Characters Quote

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“Vile and evil are composed of the same letters. One begets the other.”

Character The Maid Characters Quotes

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“Laughs are just like smiles. People use them to express an array of confounding emotions.”

Character Laughter Character Quotes The Maid

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“One thing I’ve learned in my business is that you can hide dirt for a while, but at some point, it all comes to the surface.”

Character Character Quotes The Maid Nita Prose Molly The Maid

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“I do sometimes feel angry. Especially when guests are careless. When they forget that their actions have an impact on others, when I’m treated like I don’t matter.”

Character Character Quotes The Maid Nita Prose

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“Isn’t it interesting how luxury has an unmistakable scent, as unmistakable as fear or death?”

Character Luxury Character Quote The Maid

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“I don’t cut corners, I shine them.”

Character Cleanliness Character Quotes The Maid

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“As for order, it is my express wish to live as ordered a life as possible. But the world is filled with random chaos that often devils my attempts at arrangement.”

Character Order Character Quote

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“And if I’ve learned anything about the way money works, it’s that it magnetized toward those born with it, leaving those who need it most without.”

Character Money Character Quote The Maid Nita Prose

Author:Nita Prose

“Discretion is my motto. Invisible customer service is my goal.”

Character Customer Service Quotes Character Quotes

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“I haven't seen that apron on anyone in so long; even Gran herself was too ill to use it in her final months. And to see it become three-dimensional, to see a body give it shape again... I don't know why, but it makes me look away.”

Grief Missing Someone Grandmothers Apron

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“It’s funny the way memories bubble up whenever I clean. I do wonder if that’s the same for everyone—for everyone who cleans, that is.”

Character Quote The Maid Nita Prose Molly The Maid

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“Never leave a mess to be discovered by a guest.”

Character Quote The Maid Molly The Maid

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“Nema smisla mučiti živce kada se kraj ne može promijeniti. Bit će što bude. Tako je to s filmovima, ali u stvarnom životu i nije baš tako. U stvarno životu ono što poduzmete može promijeniti rezultat, tužan kraj može postati sretan, razočaranje zadovoljstvo, pogreška ispravna stvar.”

Life Lessons Life Quotes Book Quote The Maid Nita Prose

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“Mr. Grimthorpe and I have always maintained that books can rehabilitate anyone.”

Books Rehabilitate

Book:The Mystery Guest

Source: The Mystery Guest

“Kada vjeruješ u sebe, ništa te ne može zaustaviti.”

Motivational Quotes Life Quote Book Quote The Maid Nita Prose

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid

“We all make mistakes. It’s what we do after that matters.”

Book:The Mystery Guest

Source: The Mystery Guest

“That's how a friendship is built, one small truth at a time. [Molly Gray]”

Book:The Maid

Source: The Maid