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Quotes About Resolution

Te juro que el infierno debe ser un lugar donde te encierran con tus consecuencias y te obligan a lidiar con ellas.
~ Laura Restrepo
el infierno debe ser un lugar donde te encierran con tus consecuencias y te obligan a lidiar con ellas.
~ Laura Restrepo
If not for you or your daughter, then for Nicky? Couldn't you do it for Nicky?' I stop breathing. My mother pales. 'You know what, Mom? You're right. Let me do for Nicky exactly what he did for me.' She wheels and with one savage sweep of her arm, she clears the table and sends everything crashing to the floor.
~ Laura Wiess
We never argue anymore. And when we do, it never lasts more than a week or two.
~ Lauren Bacall
I wanted to say I'm sorry. It doesn't make it right, it just... makes it what it is." The bell rings then, and I turn around in my seat, thinking I agree with her, that it is just what it is. And not just the situation with Sebastian. But still wish I knew how I could make it right. How I could make everything right.
~ Lauren Barnholdt
Ty swung around. He was obviously fed up with Ben's negative attitude.
~ Lauren Brooke
In any case, in general, I prefer to avoid conflict when I can. Not because I'm afraid or because I'm too weak to fight back. But because conflict eats up your time. It is exhaustive in terms of energy you have to expend to be involved in it. More if you mean to win, and I'd never do it if I didn't mean to win. I'd rather spend my time on other things and in general, most people aren't worth that much of my time and energy.
~ Lauren Dane
Avoid groups of people who are arguing.
~ Laurence Galian
Everything would work out and she wouldn't have to tell Dane that the box full of ancient ivory penises was roaming freely about Kirkall Hall.
~ Celeste Bradley
The lady denied it. That is that.
~ Celeste Bradley
You weren't wrong, Margaret said at last. You weren't wrong. But neither was Marie. A small tug at a complicated knot that would take generations to unpick.
~ Celeste Ng
She knew at last where everything had gone wrong. And she knew where she had to go.
~ Celeste Ng
È peccato solo il rifare un'azione che già si sa porta al rimorso e quindi a una risoluzione (arricchimento) che non ci arricchisce piú, avendoci già arricchito una volta. Dico bene?
~ Cesare Pavese
Complex problems do not demand complex solutions.
~ Charles Allen Kollar
One of the signs of a dysfunctional narrative is that we cannot leave it behind, and we cannot put it to rest, because it does not, finally, give us the explanation we need to enclose it.
~ Charles Baxter
When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
~ Charles Baxter
After some minutes of Grant trying to ease the situation by talking about the Mexican War, to which Lee responded in a polite, abstracted fashion, Lee reminded Grant of the reason for their meeting.
~ Charles Bracelen Flood
It was a problem that needed squaring away and I squared it away for them. By now it seemed like it was something I was doing all my life. If you count my father sending me out to beat up other boys so he could win beer bets, maybe it was. Evidently
~ Charles Brandt
Only in the movies or comic books do people say they want you to go and hit somebody. All they ever say is that they want you to go straighten a matter out. They say they want you to do whatever you've got to do to straighten a matter out.
~ Charles Brandt
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Sense of an Ending
~ Charles Cumming