Steven Magee quote: The full effects of High Altitude Observatory Disease

“The eye of hurricane Ian was thirty miles wide!”

Eye Wide Miles Thirty Destructive Florida Hurricane Ian Windy Fort Myers

“Signa was sent to live with her mother’s brother—a young and healthy banker with a fine estate and fruitful love life. Her uncle’s love life proved to be too fruitful in the end, however—at the age of thirty, he died from a disease he’d contracted from one of his many partners.”

Thirty Love Life Lol Fruitful Uncle Yikes Sexual Transmitted Disease That Took A Turn

Book:Belladonna

Source: Belladonna

“This isn’t what thirty is supposed to look like. It’s not what thirty is supposed to feel like. By thirty, you’re supposed to have things figured out, aren’t you? You’re not supposed to be questioning everything you’ve built your life on.”

Life Thirty

Book:After I Do

Source: After I Do

“I’m not asking for anything beyond your company in sleep. Just let me rest with the sound of your heartbeat beside mine.”

Kiesha Ra Amelia Atwater Rhodes Hawksong

Book:Hawksong

Source: Hawksong

“It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.”

Freedom Attitude Liberty Perception Negative Slavery Prison Chains Distortion Enslavement Robbery Tyrant Rob Imprisoned Distorted Robbed Skewed Staleness

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?”

“Flexibility means, being able to transform problems into teachers.”

Spirituality

Author:Dadi Janki

“As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.”

Needs Vision Blind Greed Privilege Selfish Rational Selfishness Irrational Desires Greedy Blindness Flawed Wants Possessions Eyesight Inaccurate Skewed

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Chronicler shook his head and Bast gave a frustrated sigh. "How about plays? Have you seen The Ghost and the Goosegirl or The Ha'penny King?" Chronicler frowned. "Is that the one where the king sells his crown to an orphan boy?" Bast nodded. "And the boy becomes a better king than the original. The goosegirl dresses like a countess and everyone is stunned by her grace and charm." He hesitated, struggling to find the words he wanted. "You see, there's a fundamental connection between seeming and being. Every Fae child knows this, but you mortals never seem to see. We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be." Chronicler relaxed a bit, sensing familiar ground. "That's basic psychology. You dress a beggar in fine clothes, people treat him like a noble, and he lives up to their expectations." "That's only the smallest piece of it," Bast said. "The truth is deeper than that. It's..." Bast floundered for a moment. "It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story." Frowning, Chronicler opened his mouth, but Bast held up a hand to stop him. "No, listen. I've got it now. You meet a girl: shy, unassuming. If you tell her she's beautiful, she'll think you're sweet, but she won't believe you. She knows that beauty lies in your beholding." Bast gave a grudging shrug. "And sometimes that's enough." His eyes brightened. "But there's a better way. You show her she is beautiful. You make mirrors of your eyes, prayers of your hands against her body. It is hard, very hard, but when she truly believes you..." Bast gestured excitedly. "Suddenly the story she tells herself in her own head changes. She transforms. She isn't seen as beautiful. She is beautiful, seen." "What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Chronicler snapped. "You're just spouting nonsense now." "I'm spouting too much sense for you to understand," Bast said testily. "But you're close enough to see my point.”

Mask Story Fae Seeming

Book:The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“How do I know," she said at last, "that you are what you seem to be?" "You don't," Said he. "I don't know what I seem, to you.”

Seeming

Book:The Tombs of Atuan

Source: The Tombs of Atuan

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