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“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“I wasn’t afraid of drowning though.” She wagged her head gently. “I was afraid of how she was going to punish me if I didn’t.”
― L.C. George, The Sleepwalker

“We knew the world was cruel and dirty and dull, and it was all so brutally unfair that we refused to accept it. There was magic in the world. We only had to find it.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

“Deprive a child of parental approval, and they’ll spend their lives trying to get it. And the sad, undeniable fact is that I spent most of my formative years just trying to get my parents’ attention, let alone their approval. The more they withheld it, the greater my attempts to attain it.”
― Joy Fielding, The Housekeeper