in his experience, parents abandon you slowly, bit by bit, across your entire youth. Even after you get over being ditched, they keep calling to remind you.
I suspect many children of divorce feel this way. I’ve often thought it would have been for me as a child if my dad had been wholly absent instead of partially. I wonder how others feel.
“Thus, everyone who played was destined to lose, either from fatigue or resignation.”
― Light From Uncommon Stars
― Light From Uncommon Stars
“Belief is the concern of religion. My observation is that they cannot.”
― Unsheltered
― Unsheltered
“Willa felt her daughter could dispute God on the scheduling of Judgment Day,”
― Unsheltered
― Unsheltered
“he distrusted praise, and took detractors at their word.”
― Unsheltered
― Unsheltered
“The peasants don’t like hearing how they’ve been used, paying for land that will go back to Landis the day they lose their first crop.”
― Unsheltered
― Unsheltered
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