
“Anyone who says honesty is the best policy is living in la-la land. Either that or they've never been married or had children. Parents lie to their kids all the time--about sex, drugs, death, and a hundred other things. We lie to those we love to protect their feelings. We lie because that's what love means, whereas unfettered honesty is cruel and the height of self-indulgence."----The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Rubotham (page 40)”
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“I can tell you that if there’s nothing wrong with you except fat it is easy to get thin. You eat and drink the same as always, only half. If you are handed a plate of food, leave half; if you have to help yourself, take half. After a while, if you are a perfectionist, you can consume half of that again â€� On the question of will-power, if that is a factor, you should think of will-power as something that never exists in the present tense, only in the future and the past. At one moment you have decided to do or refrain from an action and the next moment you have already done or refrained; it is the only way to deal with will-power.”
― A Far Cry from Kensington
― A Far Cry from Kensington

“I did not know that there are miles between running out of things to say, and running out of the strength to say them.”
― Somebody's Daughter
― Somebody's Daughter
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