‘Unhappiness won’t kill her either. If Anastasia experiences only joy in her life she’ll never learn to empathise with others. I think the worst thing you can hope for as a parent is that your child is always happy. Unhappiness drives us
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“Sympathy and empathy are temporary; in the end, you have to fight your battles alone.”
― In Truth's Embrace: Every mystery has a tale
― In Truth's Embrace: Every mystery has a tale
“Don’t talk to anyone who doesn’t seem nice. Don’t talk to any man who has his pants hiked up and his business shoved over to one side, on display.”
― Buckeye
― Buckeye
“Therein, she thought, lies the unbearable solitude of a lie: you’re alone when you tell it, alone when you live it, alone when you try to dismantle it.”
― Buckeye
― Buckeye
“Women had the babies, and men, if they felt like it, began to distance themselves the moment they pulled out. Because they had to go to a wife, or to work, or to a war, or to that secret place of stoic brooding all men were given the key to at birth.”
― Buckeye
― Buckeye
“Skip would then collect the nickel and carry the book on his bicycle over to the next house, where he would leave it in the mailbox and put the flag up. At the drugstore, the four men shared their reactions and thoughts.”
― Buckeye
― Buckeye
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