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The first step to really reading a person?

Pay attention

A man, not a boy.

“How old are you, Nora?” he asks next.

I blink. “Twenty-one.”

His expression darkens. “Don’t lie to me.”

“Almost eighteen,” I admit reluctantly.

manipulators using fear as a means of control, remaining passive-aggressive, or gaslighting. When a manipulator uses fear to control another person, they are essentially driving at that person's insecurities in order to gain the outcome they desire.

Good things do not have to be infinite to be good or to have value

Pay attention!

You’d be surprised how much you can see if you only look.

Most of us don’t see what’s right in front of us for one simple reason: there is something in the way of our perception.

I desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner I prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather, and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever

If a person does the same unusual thing five times in a single short conversation, then that’s something to pay attention to.

Self-discipline is the creation of a clear path between your internal and external realities, no matter what.

Manipulation can be subtle, hidden in body language, emotional cues, and unspoken signals.