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If you love something, let it go.
If you don't love something, definitely let it go.
Basically, just drop everything, who cares.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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...slow and steady wins the race, till truth and talent claim their place.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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Regret is just perfectionism plus time.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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We are the sum total of our experiences. Those experiences – be they positive or negative – make us the person we are, at any given point in our lives. And, like a flowing river, those same experiences, and those yet to come, continue to influence and reshape the person we are, and the person we become. None of us are the same as we were yesterday, nor will be tomorrow.
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B.J. Neblett
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I was sad that summer was over. But I was happy that it was over for my enemies, too.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself, so that when you are in a relationship, the person will truly be compatible with the real you.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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You have infinite time here, and there are infinite things to do, but you still don’t end up doing much of it. You do what you love most, over and over.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as much and as frequently as every single male chauvinist and every single misogynist believes).
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana (On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay)
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It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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Love always won in the end. No matter how it happened, no matter what it took, no matter what it meant. Fair or not, true or not, love won.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana (On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay)
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Giving a child a book is better than any toy you can buy, even a fidget spinner.
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Sonia Cunningham Leverette (BJ's Big Dream)
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It matters not if the world has heard or approves or understands...the only applause we're meant to seek is that of nail-scarred hands.
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B.J. Hoff
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Do you think why not is ultimately a better question than why? Why or why not?
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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Yesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality.
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B.J. Neblett
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All eyes are beautiful, I said, which is why it’s such an easy compliment.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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What?” Henry shrugs. “Like, it’s ironic. Because BJ went home with the Anti-Parks, and Parks went home with the BJ deluxe.
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Jessa Hastings (Magnolia Parks (Magnolia Parks Universe, #1))
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Whatever happened in the past belongs in the past. Learn from it, grow, and move on. Don't let it determine your future.
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B.J. Harvey (Temporary Bliss (Bliss, #1))
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You’re my forever girl … You always have been, and if I have my way, you always will be.
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B.J. Harvey (Temporary Bliss (Bliss, #1))
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In order to design successful habits and change your behaviors, you should do three things. Stop judging yourself. Take your aspirations and break them down into tiny behaviors. Embrace mistakes as discoveries and use them to move forward.
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B.J. Fogg (Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything)
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There’s always going to be one more thing. Because that’s what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it’s infinite, it’s built out of something infinite, or it feels like it is, anyway, which is the same thing to us.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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Just a little pointer, Indy, girl to girl, if you want that week with Lee to last into two. He likes it
when you go down on him in the morning. He’s a fucking animal in bed but give him a morning BJ,
he’ll return the favor and rock your world.”
Every muscle in my body froze solid.
“What did she just say?” Stevie asked.
“She did not just say that in front of me,” Kitty Sue said.
“Holy crap,” Dolores said.
“Oh… my… gawd,” Tod said.
“You fucking bitch,” Ally said.
“This is more like it,” Tex said.
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Kristen Ashley (Rock Chick (Rock Chick, #1))
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Loving you is like walking between rain drops.
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B.J. Neblett
“
Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana (On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay)
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The older I get
The further I go
The more I learn
The less I know
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B.J. Neblett
“
I could imagine being his mom and loving him a lot, if that makes sense.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you're the best.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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I know this sounds crazy to say after one encounter but I kind of fell for you pretty hard & it has been forever since I've connected to anyone like this & my heart is kind of broken in a million pieces.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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A man cannot really be called (sexually) confident if he has never bought his woman a vibrator.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana (On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay)
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Everything helped a little bit, at first; but nothing really helped.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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People who knew me and sympathized with me were determined to set me up with the other people they sympathized with and were always surprised when I would turn down their offer of what they thought of as romantic charity. “What’s the harm?” they would ask me, truly surprised. The harm, besides those hours that actually do matter when you barely have one night off every couple of weeks, is the little mark you get on you every time you open up a door to a hope and then close it fast in disappointment. It leaves a nick, or a dent, and those nicks and dents are not invisible. I used to see them all the time.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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But nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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You might as well laugh at yourself,
everyone else is.
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B.J. Neblett
“
You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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Where does one run to escape from feelings?
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B.J. Neblett
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And anyone will tell you that's the whole point. You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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You meet a finite number of people in your life. It feels to you like it's infinite, but it's not. I think it's the biggest thing I can see that you can't.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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CHILD: “Why does carrot cake have the best icing?” MOTHER: “Because it needs the best icing.” Quantum Nonlocality and the Death of Elvis Presley You may remember
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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- Dude, it's Jocelyn, I (Jordan) say looking over my shoulder nervously [...]
- This isn't Jocelyn, B.J says sighing. It's Jordan. Dude, try to play a better trick than that. You sound nothing like her. Plus your number came up on my caller ID.
PS: maybe I'm just in a very good mood, but I keep laughing while reading this book, there are plenty of scenes that make me smile, and this is one of them.. it's just hilarious how silly and funny these characters are ;))
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Lauren Barnholdt (Two-Way Street)
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Seriously, Mac, I’m in so deep, I’ll take you however I can have you. I’ll wait, however long it takes. If these last few months with you have shown me anything, it’s that you’re meant to be mine. I know that already, fuck, I’ve known it for a while now. I’ve just been waiting for you to catch up.
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B.J. Harvey (Temporary Bliss (Bliss, #1))
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Shit! I need to tell him about the other penises in my life.
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B.J. Harvey (Temporary Bliss (Bliss, #1))
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See with your mind, Speak with your heart,
Touch with your eyes, Love with your entire being.
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B.J. Neblett (Elysian Dreams: Where the Past Meets the Present)
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Celebrating small wins gives them something to repattern our life around.
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B.J. Fogg (Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything)
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We talked for four hours. I don't remember most of it, but often a little moment in an unrelated conversation or alone on the street will trigger a memory of it I didn't know I had. So I know it's all there somewhere.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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A love letter lost in the mail, forgotten, miss delivered and then discovered years later and received by the intended is romantic. A love letter ending up in someone's spam filter is just annoying.
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B.J. Neblett
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In my opinion, there are two types of perfect. The first is the type that seems so obvious and intuitive to you and everyone else that in a perfect world it would simply be considered standard; but, in reality, in our flawed world, what should be considered standard is actually so rare that it has to be elevated to the level of “perfect.” This is the type of perfect that makes you and most other people think, “Why isn’t everything like this? Why is it so hard to find …” a black V-neck cotton sweater, or a casual non-chain restaurant with comfortable booths, etc.—“that is just exactly the way everyone knows something like this should be?” “Perfect,” we all say with relief when we finally find something like this that is exactly as it should be. “Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”
The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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Being young was her thing, and she was the best at it. But every year, more and more girls came out of nowhere and tried to steal her thing.
One of these days I'm gong to have to get a new thing, she thought to herself--but as quietly as she could, because she knew that if anyone caught her thinking this thought, her thing would be right over right then.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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It seems that Superman’s talents hold no bounds.
It’s just a shame my heart does.
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B.J. Harvey (Temporary Bliss (Bliss, #1))
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Tell me you feel this, gorgeous? Tell me I’m not dreaming this,” he rasps against my temple.
“I’m feeling it, and it’s scaring the shit out of me,” I whisper.
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B.J. Harvey (Temporary Bliss (Bliss, #1))
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He kissed her for an eternity, which was fine, because heaven had eternities to burn. Then he kissed her for another.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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Some people are so sexually unattractive that the thought of masturbating turns them off.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana (On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay)
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Most if not all sexually active people do not really love having sex; they merely love experiencing an orgasm every now and then.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana (On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay)
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The past is a hotel. You can visit any time; enjoy the view. But you can't live there. The cost is to high.
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B.J. Neblett (Elysian Dreams: Where the Past Meets the Present)
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Once you remove any hint of judgment, changing your habits becomes an uplifting journey of self-discovery.
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B.J. Fogg (Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything)
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We live in an aspiration-driven culture that is rooted in instant gratification. We find it difficult to enact or even accept incremental progress.
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B.J. Fogg (Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything)
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Step 1: Write this phrase on a small piece of paper: I change best by feeling good, not by feeling bad.
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B.J. Fogg (Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything)
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there are only three things we can do that will create lasting change: Have an epiphany, change our environment, or change our habits in tiny ways.
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B.J. Fogg (Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything)
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You can disrupt a behavior you don’t want by removing the prompt. This isn’t always easy, but removing the prompt is your best first move to stop a behavior from happening.
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B.J. Fogg (Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything)
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God, I want to hate you for doing this to us, but I can't," he whispers, kissing my forehead one last time before stepping back. "I could never hate you, Mac. That's why this fucking hurts so much.
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B.J. Harvey (Temporary Bliss (Bliss, #1))
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Dear sir, Mr. B.J. Thing... er... we the people of Britain are fed up with being bombed. We had enough of it last time with old Hitler so will you just leave us in peace, you live your life and we'll live ours, hope you are well... please don't drop any bombs.
Yours sincerely, Mr. and Mrs. J. Bloggs
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Raymond Briggs (When the Wind Blows)
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And just so we’re clear, I love you, Mac. I love you so damn much that even if you hadn’t come back, I would have come after you. I would’ve fought like hell until you realized that you wanted this too.
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B.J. Harvey (Temporary Bliss (Bliss, #1))
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I opened up a bit and explained that I have a type I'm drawn to naturally, but that I've found that the women I've ended up loving the most have never been what I've thought of as my type, maybe because part of love is being helpless, being out of control of your own emotions.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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Is it just that everything came too easy? Because if you're romanticizing 'difficult'...you're going to get over that quickly, I promise you. I promise you. Everyone forgets how difficult 'difficult' really is.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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But no matter what their friends told them, they would always know what really happened. They just kept driving faster, and outran the rain.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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Keep track of your soul, Madison. Never compromise. Or you'll live the rest of your life regretting it--until it consumes you.
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B.J. Kurtz (The Lord of Nightmares)
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Sitting there with Hadden, I realized how uncomplicated real happiness was: a cup of coffee, a light rain, a good friend sitting by your side-that was true happiness.
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B.J. Tiernan (Standing on a Whale)
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Didn't they realize how much interesting shit there was to see and do in this world if you just woke up at a normal fucking time like a normal fucking person?
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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why do u always post pics of ur food!?
He did it because it made him feel like he was eating his meals with more people.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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There is something about him that makes my mind twist, my stomach turn, and my cheeks blush - all at the same time.
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B.J. Harvey (Lost in Distraction (Lost, #1))
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After you put your feet on the floor in the morning, immediately say this phrase, “It’s going to be a great day.” As you say these seven words, try to feel optimistic and positive.
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B.J. Fogg (Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything)
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I feel like I didn't earn these stories, I feel like they just happened to me.
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B.J. Novak
“
We were never meant to be together.
Stars never aligned for us, they always
diverged our paths from each other.
Too close, but never enough.
Minute hands were never slow enough
for us to catch up, but fast enough we’re
slipping from its grasp.
We were never meant to be together, but
that doesn’t mean I love you any less.
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B.J. Rosalind (Fragmented Bliss)
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information alone does not reliably change behavior. This is a common mistake people make, even well-meaning professionals. The assumption is this: If we give people the right information, it will change their attitudes, which in turn will change their behaviors. I call this the “Information-Action Fallacy.
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B.J. Fogg (Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything)
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This pressure leads to a scarcity mindset—we believe that there will never be enough time, so we say no to changes because we feel like we don’t have the hours to cultivate new positive habits.
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B.J. Fogg (Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything)
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I want to see you again. I want to more than see you again, and I hope like hell that you’ll text me later on. But I’m going to leave you now, to freak out, to mull it over, and hopefully reminisce over what just happened between us because gorgeous, I know there is so much more where that just came from.
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B.J. Harvey (Temporary Bliss (Bliss, #1))
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-If you're so badass, how come I never heard of you?"
-"I prefer to stay out of the spotlight, unlike some sorceresses I know," she said with a smile as she came to stop in front of him."But I do have a nickname."
-"Hot on a stick?"
-"No."
-"Spanks with magic?"
-"Most definitely not."
-"I know, you must be the famous BJ Swallows."
-"I am going to hurt you.
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Eve Langlais (A Demon and His Witch (Welcome to Hell, #1))
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So many frustrating family dynamics and workplace dramas erupt because of the misplaced belief that manipulation motivation is the key to changing behavior. But now you know that simplicity is what reliably changes behavior.
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B.J. Fogg (Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything)
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I thought I’d lost you. That I’d never get to hold you, kiss you, love you again,” - Brax
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B.J. Harvey (Lost for You (Lost, #2))
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Coco Chanel is said to have said that a girl should be two things: who and what she is. I say a girl should do two things: what and who she wants.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana (On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay)
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Some men do not know the father of 'their' children.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana (On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay)
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Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying.
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B.J. Neblett
“
It’s like his touch is my salve and to be completely honest, I’m liking it.
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B.J. Harvey (Lost in Distraction (Lost, #1))
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It feels like something I was born to do, like I am supposed to be her with her.
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B.J. Harvey (Lost in Distraction (Lost, #1))
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God, I want to hate you for doing this to us, but I can't. I could never hate you Mac. That's why this fucking hurts so much.
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B.J. Harvey (Temporary Bliss (Bliss, #1))
“
The cute one?” “No, the other cute one.” “Oh, she’s cute too.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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The primary goal of a righteous parent who has a daughter is to minimize the number of boys and men for whom their daughter will have willingly opened her legs come her wedding day; the closer to zero, the more righteous they will seem.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana (On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay)
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he said we’re the Pandavas, didn’t you? ’Coz I’m so honest and responsible and all. Like Yudhisthir.’ ‘Uh, Yudi gambled away his family’s entire inheritance,’ Eshwari reminds her. ‘And their spouse.
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Anuja Chauhan (The House That BJ Built)
“
eople—even good, impressive people—always want something simple and unimpressive. Everything good and impressive that they do in their lives is a result of the impressive path they take to get what they want—not a result of wanting an impressive thing.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per million. [James Henderson, "Incest", in A. M. Freedman, H.I. Kaplan and B.J. Sadock, eds., Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 2nd ed. 1975 p. 1532.]
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Judith Lewis Herman (Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword))
“
I can’t even handle love, there’s no way I can handle it being taken away. I won’t survive it. Please. Please. Please!”
I said that I had something to say to her, which made her listen in a way that she didn’t when I simply said things without the preface. Even though the preface meant nothing, it calmed her, just as it calmed real people, for the same no-reason.
I told her what people tell people. That this was what it felt like when love was taken away—but that it wasn’t the truth, it was just a feeling. It would pass. It would take time.
She would recharge.
She didn’t believe me.
No one ever believes it, I said. That’s part of what the feeling is.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
“
I can’t live in a world where she is not in my life, it’s not even an option. She told me that she doesn’t want to go back to how she was before we met, alone and shut off from the world. She likes how alive and free she feels now that she’s with me.
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B.J. Harvey (Lost in Distraction (Lost, #1))
“
But it has only been three weeks,” I whisper.
“Three fucking good weeks, gorgeous. Three weeks that make me want to see this through.”
…
“I will tell you this, Mac. I’m going to try and be everything you need me to be both in and out of the bedroom because I like seeing you smile. I like seeing you laugh, and I definitely like you when you’re underneath me calling out my name.
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B.J. Harvey (Temporary Bliss (Bliss, #1))
“
She is radiant, the darkness that surrounded her for so long is now a thing of the past. After pushing my way into her life, and doing everything I could to break down her walls, I finally got that spark of hers to catch alight and I'll do everything in my power to make sure that her fire never goes out again.
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B.J. Harvey (Lost in Distraction (Lost, #1))
“
In the aftermath of an athletic humiliation on an unprecedented scale—a loss to a tortoise in a footrace so staggering that, his tormenters teased, it would not only live on in the record books, but would transcend sport itself, and be taught to children around the world in textbooks and bedtime stories for centuries; that hundreds of years from now, children who had never heard of a “tortoise” would learn that it was basically a fancy type of turtle from hearing about this very race—the hare retreated, understandably, into a substantial period of depression and self-doubt.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
“
Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered the number zero, including the number one, two, three and so on, as the contribution of Muslims in the writing of numbers in this modern era and the foundation and development of civilizations throughout the world. But how Muslims will regained the lead and control of science and technology, leading back and become a leader in the world of science and civilization, because it represents a real achievement.
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Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
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Bring it on, Legs.”
“Still don’t get the legs thing,” she mutters.
“Because every time I see them I imagine them wrapped around my head.”
She chokes down the phone, and then the line goes eerily quiet.
“Mia?”
“I’m here. Just hitting pause on that mental image and saving it for later.”
“Jesus, woman. Warn a guy before you throw out the Viagra lines.”
“What?” she says, with a knowing giggle.
“Those kind of words take a man from floppy to stabby in zero-point-five seconds.
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B.J. Harvey (Game Player (Game, #1))
“
Let’s say that you have committed to running every day for two weeks, and at the end of those two weeks, you “reward” yourself with a massage. I would say, “Good for you!” because we all could benefit from more massages. But I would also say that your massage wasn’t a reward. It was an incentive. The definition of a reward in behavior science is an experience directly tied to a behavior that makes that behavior more likely to happen again. The timing of the reward matters. Scientists learned decades ago that rewards need to happen either during the behavior or milli-seconds afterward. Dopamine is released and processed by the brain very quickly. That means you’ve got to cue up those good feelings fast to form a habit. Incentives like a sales bonus or a monthly massage can motivate you, but they don’t rewire your brain. Incentives are way too far in the future to give you that all-important shot of dopamine that encodes the new habit. Doing three squats in the morning and rewarding yourself with a movie that evening won’t work. The squats and the good feelings you get from the movie are too far apart for dopamine to build a bridge between the two. The neurochemical reaction that you are trying to hack is not only time dependent, it’s also highly individualized. What causes one person to feel good may not work for everyone. Your boss may love the smell of coffee. When she enters a coffee shop and inhales, she feels good. And her immediate feeling builds her habit of visiting the coffee shop. But your coworker might not like the way coffee smells. His brain won’t react in the same way. A real reward — something that will actually create a habit — is a much narrower target to hit than most people think. I
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B.J. Fogg (Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything)