Цитаты из книги The Nest

Name: The Nest
Rating: 3.6 (220 reviews)
Author: Синтия Д'априкс Суини
ISBN: 9780008133757

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Hell-Puppy

29 августа 2016 г., 08:29

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“I’m curious,” he said, “is telling someone to relax ever helpful? It’s like saying ‘breathe’ to someone who is hyperventilating or ‘swallow’ to a person who’s choking. It’s a completely useless admonition.”

Hell-Puppy

29 августа 2016 г., 08:28

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Nothing was a sure thing; every choice was just an educated guess, or a leap into a mysterious abyss. People might not change but their incentives could.

Hell-Puppy

29 августа 2016 г., 08:27

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I you want people to judge you based on the inside, don't distract them from the outside.

Hell-Puppy

29 августа 2016 г., 08:26

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She believed in second chances, sometimes more than first chances, which were wasted on youth and indiscretion.

Hell-Puppy

29 августа 2016 г., 08:24

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She supposed she could Google, but she preferred to wonder.

Hell-Puppy

29 августа 2016 г., 08:28

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True patriotism, Jack believed, would have been for his fellow Americans to look inward after 9/11 and accept a little blame, admit the attacks had happened, in part, because of who they were in the world, not in spite of it.

Hell-Puppy

29 августа 2016 г., 08:26

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She was open to love, but she was best at managing her own happiness; it was other people’s happiness that sunk her.

Hell-Puppy

29 августа 2016 г., 08:25

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His love for her was quiet and constant, familiar and soothing; it was almost its own thing entirely, like a worn rock or a set of worry beads, something he’d pick up and weigh in his palm occasionally, more comforting than dispiriting.

Hell-Puppy

29 августа 2016 г., 08:25

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This was the part she hated, the part of a relationship that always nudged her to bail, the part where someone else’s misery or expectations or neediness crept into her carefully prescribed world. It was such a burden, other people’s lives.

Hell-Puppy

29 августа 2016 г., 08:24

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Everyone’s always on the hunt for a mirror. It’s basic psychology. You want to see yourself reflected in others. Others—your sister, your parents—they want to look at you and see themselves. They want you to be a flattering reflection of them—and vice-versa. It’s normal. I suppose it’s really normal if you’re a twin. But…

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