“Like a trained surgeon who is careful where he cuts, parents, too, need to become skilled in the use of words. Because words are like knives. They can inflict, if not physical, many painful emotional wounds.”
― Between Parent and Child: Revised and Updated
― Between Parent and Child: Revised and Updated
“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
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“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”
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“It is a deep comfort to children to discover that their feelings are a normal part of the human experience. There is no better way to convey that than to understand them. When”
― Between Parent and Child: Revised and Updated
― Between Parent and Child: Revised and Updated
“Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
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