“I admired how she knew, well before I did, that the point of a child is not what you hope he will accomplish in your name but the pleasure that he will bring you, whatever form it comes in, even if it is a form that is barely recognizable as pleasure at all—and, more important, the pleasure you will be privileged to bring him.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“I thought I didn’t want intensity, but in fact, I’m desperate for it.”
― Love and Other Words
― Love and Other Words
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