Vijayalakshmi
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The more pitiable our present situation, the grander our delusions of past glory.
“But we weren't ready to become adults. Someone should have stopped us.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Parents are defined by their mistakes.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Because perhaps it's true what they say, that up to a certain age a child loves you unconditionally and uncontrollably for one simple reason, you're theirs. Your parents and siblings can love you for the rest of your life, too, for precisely the same reason.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“We can't change the world, and a lot of the time we can't even change people. No more than one bit at a time. So we do what we can to help whenever we get the chance, sweetheart. We save those we can. We do our best. Then we try to find a way to convince ourselves that that will just have to...be enough. So we can live with our failures without drowning.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Because the people we argue with hardest of all are not the ones who are completely different from us, but the ones who are almost no different at all.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
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