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Looking back, he saw his own progress toward this hill of elation no longer as a sometimes sordid and always gray decade of worry and failing enthusiasm and failing dreams, years when the moonlight had grown duller in the areaway and the youth had faded out of Olive's face, but as a glorious and triumphant climb over obstacles which he had determinedly surmounted by unconquerable willpower.

"If you've made up your mind to be different from everyone else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate."
From The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

This was their first experience with the charming old custom of having babies, and they were quite nervous.


Idk why, but this is absolutely hilarious to me.

Perry was also thinking that other classical thought, about how cowardly suicide is. A noble thought that one- warm and inspiring. Think of all the fine men we should lose if suicide were not so cowardly!

It brought about one of those ghastly pauses where two people who are in love pull up sharply, look at each other coolly and think it's all been a mistake.