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As the only surviving offspring of the Peyton family, Annabelle and her younger brother had always been unusually close despite the ten-year difference in their ages

This is Mr. Simon Hunt

He’s an entrepreneur.”

“You mean a financial speculator?” Annabelle

In time, he’d learned how the world truly measured the worth of a man. His rebelliousness was replaced by a very sincere desire just to stay alive. He’d learned to live in a world where a man’s word was his bond—breaking it could be a death warrant.

is what happens when your “inner child” or some other hidden part of yourself operates independently, seizes control, and makes you act inappropriately or impairs your ability to function.

Cus always said if you could get a heavyweight that could fight like Henry Armstrong, throwing punches nonstop, never giving his opponent a chance to breathe, you’d have a champion.

It taught me something about human psychology: that no matter how you’re perceived, no matter what people see on the outside, what’s inside you can be completely different and probably is

Frequently, when you’re doing a thing, you’re only aware of the way you feel. You connect the way you feel with the way you must look. If you feel inhibited, which people often do when they’re performing difficult and demanding tasks, especially physical ones, then you feel that must be the way you look. You don’t realize that you look fine

Because if you don’t train today, it’s not that this one day is gonna make you out of shape physically, it’s gonna make you soft mentally.

But like they say, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.