“You think, “I’ve been running every day for a month, so why can’t I see any change in my body?” Once this kind of thinking takes over, it’s easy to let good habits fall by the wayside. But in order to make a meaningful difference, habits need to persist long enough to break through this plateau—what I call the Plateau of Latent Potential.”
“Light is a privilege, Nina,” he says. “My mother has noticed before that you failed to turn off the lights. Did you know in other countries, there are people who don’t even have electricity? And what do you do? You waste it.”
“As I sit next to Andrew in one of the best seats of the hottest show in town in this amazing theater, I don’t feel like a girl who just got out of prison, who doesn’t have a penny to her name, who is working a job she hates. I feel special. Like maybe I deserve to be here.”
“Hürriyetime, hatta hayatıma hükmedebilecek durumda olan bu insanların zavallılığı gururumu artırıyordu. O günlerde bunlara elbise, palto, şapka, ayakkabı veriliyordu. Bütün konuştukları bundan ibaretti. Birisi, aldığı pabucun bir teki öbürüne uymadığından şikayet ediyor, öteki, palto provası yapan terziye sövüyor, bir başkası, kendisine verilen şapkayı satıp üstüne para ekleyerek daha iyisini alacağından bahsediyordu."