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' "Well, the hardest thing about being a parent is recalibration. The better you are at it, the better you will be."
(...) We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them to be like we are, or better than we are. We as humans are very unimaginative in that sense.'
— Aug 08, 2026 06:42AM
(...) We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them to be like we are, or better than we are. We as humans are very unimaginative in that sense.'
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(p. 784) 'He feels, as he increasingly does, that his life is something that has happened to him, rather than something he has had any role in creating'
— Sep 17, 2026 03:55AM
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(p. 750) 'the color of the sea from which one comes, the color of the sea to which one returns'
— Sep 12, 2026 06:54AM
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'and the blood from his nose was thick and hot and reassuring and the taste of it on his lips oddly nourishing, like soup, as if his body were something miraculous and self-healing, determined to save itself.'
— Sep 01, 2026 06:32AM
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"Pretend we're falling and we're clinging together from fear."
— Aug 23, 2026 03:20AM
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"Why wasn't friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn't it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified."
— Jul 06, 2026 10:52AM
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'There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.'
— Jun 13, 2026 08:33AM