Cards Quote by Jesse Ball

Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion,…

— Dana Spiotta

When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

— Keith Ablow

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.

— Mary E. Pearson

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents…

— Diane Ackerman

“It is a matter of perspective, between opponent and partner… You step to the side and the same person can be either or both…

— Erin Morgenstern

Each of us has a network of emotional and logical associations that is unique to us. Activate one mode of the association, and you…

— Maria Konnikova

Events are like horses. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be a…

— David Eddings

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

— Tom Stoppard

And every match is different: you have different opponents, different situations, different conditions. So there's no one approach that's going to work all the…

— Ellyse Perry

What brings two people together anyway?

— Sara Zarr

“That’s just a fiction,” I said, “a little game of protocol.” “Little games of protocol are how one shows respect, especially to those with…

— Jim Butcher

I try to enter every match or every event with the same attitude, because to me, they're all as important as each other, and…

— Sheamus