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“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

“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

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

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