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“Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself”

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Kim Harrison, born in 1966, is a renowned science fiction author from the United States. Her works are highly praised by readers and critics for their unique worldviews and profound thematic explorations. more

“She licked again, taking her time,even though she didn't need to; her first stroke numbed the bite site. No, this second taste was for her, not him, and there was no lying about that. "I'm starting to feel like a Tootsie Pop, here" he rasped. She couldn't contain a smile. " Yes... how did that old commercial go?" She licked him. "One." She licked him again, and he moaned. "Two." She licked him once more, and his hips came off the bed, "Three.”

Needs Feels Firsts Two Lying Three Taste Bed Starting Pops Hips Bites Site Strokes

Author:Larissa Ione

“People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.”

People Way Stories Wanted Remember Forget Ought Boundaries Blur

Book:Spindle's End

Source: Spindle's End

“Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world’s resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that’s the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change.”

“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.”

World Said Shows Dream Fields Birth Ultimate Medicine Tricks Hats Destination Unspeakable Precedent Anything Is Possible Strangeness Reckoning Trance Carnivals Chimera Analogue

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.”

Matter Done Particular Circumstances Stuck Cycles

Book:Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All

Source: Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All

“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”

Believe Capable Shame

Author:Brené Brown

“For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.”

Love Luck Misfortunes Being Loved Bad Luck

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“How late is it? How long have we been sitting here? I look at my watch – three thirty and the day is almost ending. It’s October. All those kids recently returned to classrooms with new bags and pencil cases will be looking forward to half term already. How quickly it goes. Halloween soon, then firework night. Christmas. Spring. Easter. Then there’s my birthday in May. I’ll be seventeen. How long can I stave it off? I don’t know. All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.”

“It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.”

Thinking Needs Government Certain Citizens Neglected Governing

Author:Wendell Berry

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