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You know what mom always says? You can be whatever you want as long as you don’t become a critic. Not of other people and not of yourself. It’s so easy to be a critic, any coward can do that. But art doesn’t need critics, art needs friends.

Then Ted Explains just how bereavement feels: I could have never lived there without him. I would have just lain awake all night waiting for him to come home. I would have to throw away all the eggs because he was the only one who ate them, but I would have forgotten not to buy them. I would have forgotten that he didn’t exist all the time……

Being a parent is so strange, all our children's pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.