“ She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort. Margaret Landon
“ Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere. Sherry Turkle
“ Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ The simple rhythms of nature are calling you. Let them wash away the clutter and distractions from your false life. Bryant McGill
“ Creating chaos provides excitement for some people, especially those who are uneasy with silence, those who distract themselves from their own problems by focusing outward, those who feel empty inside… Beverly Engel
“ I need a drink. Now.”After tossing—fine, throwing—my purse and keys on the couch, I march straight into the kitchen. No more delays; it's time to forget tonight. It’s been yet another night like all t… Lilly Avalon
“ This is the problem about thinking about something else to take your mind off something. It works for a little while, but in the end you always come back to the thing you were trying not to think abou… Marcelo Figueras
“ Idling of our elders is called business; the idling of boys, though quite like it, is punished by those same elders, and no one pities either the boys or the men. Augustine of Hippo
“ Work, the gospel of work, the sanctity of work, laborare est orare - all that tripe and nonsense. 'Work!' he once broke out contemptuously against the reasonable expostulations of Philip Quarles, 'wor… Aldous Huxley
“ Well, hell yeah! I’m gonna kick your ass, too!”I narrowed my eyes at him. “Not this time you’re not. I have a new superpower.”He laughed. “And what’s that? Harsh language?”I leaned over to kiss his ne… Jamie McGuire
“ ... answered his knock with a smile, a short one forced through because she was at heart a warm person, not given to the dark mood swings which now plagued her. John Grisham
“ He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusiona distraction Jennifer DeLucy
