“You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.”

— Sarah Dessen , Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt." by Sarah Dessen?

Sarah Dessen 511

American writer 1970

Ian Brady (1938–2017) British serial killer, perpetrator of the Moors murders

Article, Evening Standard, Tue 25 June 2013, pp.1-4

“If you help yourself to the benefits of being married when you are single, you're likely to help yourself to the benefits of being single when you're married.”

Manis Friedman book Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore?

Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore? (1990); as quoted in Fishman, Sylvia Barack. A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community http://www.books.google.com/books?id=UWCL28nWMoEC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=why+doesnt+anyone+blush+anymore&source=bl&ots=rXP-j83aqt&sig=TeBM0t-oRsnnHgHtNQVYY0h8ASE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4Uh_U5ibG8KryASYx4GYCA&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBzgy. UPNE. 1995.
Marriage and fidelity

“The beginning of this work is just how to get people to remember how to play, to be in play. Once you're in play, you're in the moment. You're not judgmental, you're enjoying each other, you're accepting of everything that goes on; you're trusting yourself and just doing the game as best as you can.”

Martin de Maat (1949–2001) American theatre director

A Conversation with Martin de Maat (1998)
Context: The beginning of this work is just how to get people to remember how to play, to be in play. Once you're in play, you're in the moment. You're not judgmental, you're enjoying each other, you're accepting of everything that goes on; you're trusting yourself and just doing the game as best as you can. Your critical mind is gone, your analytical mind is not involved. Really, it's just the flow that goes on between human beings, the group the power of the ensemble.
As with any ensemble, it is the team effort or the group effort that makes the individual grow or look good. That's what the center of this work is all about, what these games and exercises are all about... breaking down barriers between people, empowering the individual to believe in their own associations and ideas, uncovering the courage to create, the courage to communicate.