“…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.”
― The Other Boleyn Girl
― The Other Boleyn Girl
“Outlier complacency' is a heuristic that allows a person to enjoy the thrill of danger associated with the possible negative outcome of an activity or event because they take comfort in the reality that the likelihood of an actual negative outcome is statistically low.”
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“She must feel like Lucifer’s frigid breath is running down the back of her delicate neck.”
― Death Leaves a Shadow
― Death Leaves a Shadow
“Yevgeni Krilov knew he was in a room with the richest man in Russia, possibly the world. No one did a ruble’s worth of business in Russia without paying a percentage fee to the supreme boss, albeit through a complex network of shell companies and front men.”
― The Fox
― The Fox
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