Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from Don't Believe It:
A descoberta consiste em ver o que todos os outros viram e pensar no que ninguém mais pensou.
I factored in the unexpected, a necessity to any proper strategy.
Perfect. The suits will be gone by then. I’ll bring the wine.
slated to air in the beginning of June.
In the tiny world of chess, have you ever wondered how crappy it is to be a pawn?
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. —Alfred Hitchcock
Her face, she realized, told Marshall Sebold everything she didn’t want him to know.
Ellie Reiser?
The girlfriend’s name . . . Grace Sebold.
Gus
The active ingredient in Clorox wipes.
Has Grace told you about Daniel?
Ever since the accident, people assume that I’m unaware of what goes on around me. That I don’t listen.
Grace was born with a rare type of leukemia.
four-lane highway
To kill someone required perfection, timing, and luck. I hoped all three were with me this evening.
I learned long ago, when I was still working, that if someone’s got you by the balls, you shouldn’t wiggle.
Just call the nurses.” Gus smiled at him. “That’d be like little Anne Frank calling the Nazis to help her out of the attic.
Most patients were here to rehabilitate from some catastrophic disease that had placed them at death’s door. Many, Gus determined as he snooped through the hallways in his wheelchair, would be better off if someone had answered.
Can life really be started over? Can you simply turn the page in the notebook of life that has recorded your history and start writing a fresh story?
Grace shook her head. “I’ve spent countless hours and more than a few sleepless nights trying to figure out this emotion, but on some hard-to-explain level, I’m mad at Julian. I don’t have access to a psychiatrist in here, so I’ve had to figure these emotions out on my own. But what I’ve settled on is that I’m angry with Julian because he left me here. Because his death has brought me so much pain and heartache. His death cost me my own life. And yet, all these years later, I still love him. I know none of it is his fault. I just have nowhere else to place the blame. So poor Julian takes much of it.
In the tiny world of chess, have you ever wondered how crappy it is to be a pawn?” Sidney’s lips came together and her forehead wrinkled. “No, I can’t say I’ve ever considered that line of thought.” “Their only role is sacrifice and diversion.
her mother uprooted her from the Atlanta suburb, where every friend Sidney had ever made lived, and replanted her haphazardly in Sarasota, Florida. Sidney never created the same friendships in Sarasota that she had enjoyed her whole life in Atlanta, and the new life her mother attempted to forge in Florida was less new and mostly just different.
And the problem with evoking hope was that it led one of two places: salvation or damnation.
All that matters are the ratings. They drive advertising. Advertising drives revenue. Revenue pays the bills and keeps the suits in their cushy jobs.
She had this way about her, taking joyous moments and turning them into angst-clouded misery.
