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“Don't let complaining be your tone; just let your inner strength be shown. Grumbling won't let the good side of the adversity be known. Turn each obstacle into a stepping stone on paths you've grown.”

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“I have learnt to hide my true feelings behind a mask of obedience, and sometimes feigned ignorance. It has become a part of my nature, allowing my thoughts to remain my own even if my actions, words and demeanour are often at the command of others. Don’t we all wear masks, either to protect ourselves or to deceive others?”

Truth Obedience Mask Hide Feelings Protect Ourselves Deceive Others

Book:The Engraver's Secret

Source: The Engraver's Secret

“Beliefs are the umbrella that we use to protect ourselves on rainy days.”

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Author:Debasish Mridha

“They are forever looking into the nooks and crannies of a thing, whatever the thing may be. Always up very early or very late, going for rides on the backs of whales who deliver the mail; waking up covered in a secret language of hums; writing about the hobbies of feathers; changing shape like a cloud; howling at the moon; being a radioactive night-light in the dark; being a life raft on an ocean of alphabet soup; being great-hearted; being selfless; believing in tall tales, doodlebugs, and doohickeys. Believing. Believing in themselves. Believing in you.”

Source: Confessions of an Imaginary Friend

“He always had a wild desire for notoriety... always had a craze to be mixed up with any scandal or catastrophe he heard of. Why, that man didn't like funerals because he couldn't pretend to be the corpse.”

Notoriety Tall Tales

Book:Mistress Pat

Source: Mistress Pat

“Her firm belief was that things would be better in society if there was a periodic ‘social cleansing’ to eliminate those influences that are considered unsavory. She sounds like she’d be fun at parties,” the officer joked.”

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Book:Thirteen for Dinner

Source: Thirteen for Dinner

“Shuller was thankful they’d found sheets for those who had been killed, but just the knowing who was under the sheet ... well, he wasn’t sure if that was still a kindness or made it worse for the imagination.”

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Book:Thirteen for Dinner

Source: Thirteen for Dinner

“Oh yes, how terrible for you. Having to have a staff wait on you, having the world for yours to take due to being born into privilege and being so unbelievably bored at the prospect of living a life of leisure thanks to the genetic lottery you won that you threw it all away for a pursuit of a career that, quite frankly, is not your strong suit, shall we say. Yes. Poor little rich girl. Everything you have now, everything you had lost and walked away from, is of your doing. You just had to maintain a life of decorum. Sorry if the expectations of being proper were unattainable for you. I hadn’t expected that to be outside of your reach.”

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Book:Thirteen for Dinner

Source: Thirteen for Dinner

“Each time she glanced in his direction, she was struck with the fact that this measly slip of a man had had the power to destroy her husband’s career. Every bit of loathing she had for him was there on display for Willum to take in.”

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Book:Thirteen for Dinner

Source: Thirteen for Dinner

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