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“A miracle worker who can do more with less, pacify rival groups, endure chronic second guessing, tolerate low levels of support, process large volumes of paper, and work double shifts. He or she will have carte blanche to innovate, but cannot spend much money, replace any personnel, or upset any constituency.”

“A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.”

“A mirror doesn't give a man a true reflection of who he is. It doesn't show him what's on the inside. It doesn't show him the things he covers up with a smile whilst standing in front of it, telling himself he's okay. Death will. His true form will stand before him, stretched out forming the thickest, darkest truths he's ever seen. I don't want to be there when I die. Death. Although it comes once, it lasts forever.”

“A mirror has always symbolized more than glass and reflection. A mirror represents truth. A mirror represents conscience. It shows us what is actually there, not what we wish were there. Sometimes the hardest thing a person can do is look honestly at themselves. Not the version they present to the world, but the quiet reflection that asks: Who am I really? What am I contributing to this world? Where do I need to grow? Avoiding the mirror isn’t about the glass. It’s about avoiding the work of self-knowledge and accountability. But the beautiful thing about reflection is that it gives us something powerful: the chance to change, grow, and become better than we were yesterday. Sometimes the bravest thing a person can do… is simply look in the mirror.”

“A misbegotten hatchling of consciousness, a birth defect of our species, imagination is often revered as a sign of vigor in our make-up. But it is really just a psychic overcompensation for our impotence as beings. Denied nature’s exemption from creativity, we are indentured servants of the imaginary until the hour of our death, when the final harassments of imagination will beset us.”

“A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.”