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There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#fur #more #rubbing #skinning #than

I rested my head on the wall behind me and closed my eyes, wishing my life had a button: Ignore All. ↗

— Rachel Brady

#mystery #skydiving #sleuth #life

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#chivalry #dejan-stojanovic #life #literature #literature-quotes

But as I stood there dressed in a cute black pants suit and white button-up shirt and heels, I felt completely out of place. Not necessarily because of the clothes, but…I just don’t belong there. I can’t put my finger on it, but that Monday and the rest of that week when I woke up, got dressed and walked into that store, something was itching the back part of my consciousness. I couldn’t hear the actual words, but it felt like: This is your life, Camryn Bennett. This is your life. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#j-a-redmerski #life #out-of-place #the-edge-of-never #life

To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#foolish #impulse #impulsive #impulsiveness #life

She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#risk #life

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#another #athlete #basketball #doubt #i

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#layover #life #living #poetry #life

What I saw was just one eye In the dawn as I was going: A bird can carry all the sky In that little button glowing. Never in my life I went So deep into the firmament. ↗

— Harold Monro

#dawn #sky #life

You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life ... He said there is no in-between with an innocent client. No negotiation, no plea bargain, no middle ground. There's only one verdict. You have to put an NG up on the scoreboard. There's no other verdict but not guilty." Levin nodded thoughtfully. "The bottom line was my old man was a damn good lawyer and he didn't like having innocent clients," I said. "I'm not sure I do, either. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#criminal-law #fear #guilt #innocence #justice