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People under forty had optimism. They had optimism for the future; they didn’t accept that their future was going to resemble their present with alarming specificity. They had velocity. He couldn’t bear velocity just at that moment.
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Paul Murray
“Before he became a father, he imagined the relationship as being like an intensive version of owning a pet. The child, he thought, was essentially a passive, a vessel into which you poured your love. On TV that’s how it looked. Children were silent, dormant; you went into their bedrooms, gazed down at them fondly, drew the blankets over them as they slept.

But in life, he discovered, parenthood was like – it was – living with a person. A new person, with strong opinions, strong tastes, arbitrary swings of emotion, all of them addressed at you. You were the passive one: the work of care was primarily to endure, to weather the endless, buffeting storms of unmediated will.”
Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

Nathan  Hill
“This, it turned out, was the most savage, most hurtful thing about being a parent: it wasn’t just coming face-to-face with all your own shortcomings and inadequacies, but it was also seeing those shortcomings embodied in your child.”
Nathan Hill, Wellness

Katherine Rundell
“To dare is to lose one’s balance; one’s footing in the world. Not to dare is to lose everything worth having.”
Katherine Rundell, The Poisoned King

Katherine Rundell
“No one person is meant to love in the same way as another: we all invent it fresh, each time, for each person.”
Katherine Rundell, The Poisoned King

Nathan  Hill
“She finally comprehended parenthood’s strange paradox: that it was deeply annihilating while at the same time also somehow deeply comforting. It was both soul-devouring and soul-filling.”
Nathan Hill, Wellness

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