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"Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it, they’re bums and kidnapers, but when the Church says it, it is known as putting a kid on the right track."

"A Greek?” demanded Peyton Place incredulously. “For God’s sake, isn’t it enough that we’ve got a whole colony of Polacks and Canucks working in the mills without letting the Greeks in?”🙄

"Selena was wise with the wisdom learned of poverty and wretchedness. At thirteen, she saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death."

aren’t you ever gonna have kids?