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Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.

Ink Exchange

I hang out with light people, because you never know when you’ll have to pick someone up and use them as a human shield.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

I want to make the choice that gives an accurate impression of who I am; and who I am is someone who wants to be ethical, evolved, yet not at all an oil pan for the machinations of the morally corrupt.

Immortality or Something Like It

If the entire society was conscious of its duties, nobody would need to fight for their individual rights. Since everybodys's rights would be automatically taken care of through someone else's duties.

The Immortals of Meluha

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

Invisible Man

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

Infidel

You spend months barely acknowledging someone's existence and then BOOM, you're emotionally addicted to her. Science would probably blame it on chemicals, genetics or something equally logical, but it didn't feel like anything logical

I Know It's Over

A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...

The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

That’s why I wanted to be a writer - because someone I loved told me I could be one.

If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers

This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.

The Illusion of Separateness

Certainly not the way someone will have told you the same thing yesterday, made you feel alternately - simultaneously - angry and guilty, guilty because complicit because flattered, therefore unfairly angry.

Invisible Tender

True respect means accepting someone and honoring his or her thoughts and feelings.

I Only Want to Get Married Once: Dating Secrets for Getting It Right the First Time

Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next thing you know you're alone with a masculine crop crying into your granola.

It

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.

I wanderers

I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would create a decoy nun and then crawl out the window.

Just One Wish

In order to be happy, every person must have: 1. Something meaningful to do. 2. Someone to love. (Friends and family and pets all count.) 3. Something to look forward to. It's really that simple.

The Kissing Coach

All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it.

Killosophy