“It’s frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: The Sweetest Thing
“You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it.”
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 8 (p. 92)
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Source: prevale.net
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