In my book, the media are a necessary evil: they live off the animal inside us, they bait the front pages with second-hand blood for the hyenas to snuffle up, but they come in useful enough that you want to stay on their good side.

Tana French
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  5. Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do. - Unknown

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  1. I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to...

  2. I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

  3. What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.

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  5. Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.

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