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Sometimes I think I’m a total failure as a parent, but I’m all they’ve got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him . . . if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn’t meet his eye, and the day I can’t do that I’ll know I’ve lost him. I don’t want to lose him and Scout, be
... See moreHarper Lee • To Kill a Mockingbird
Death of an Author
Charles Dickens
“Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.”
but then her little girl came along, and her little girl’s daddy left, and before you knew it . . . she was one of them. The needy.
Gillian Flynn • The Grownup
“Willy was a salesman,” says Charley at the climax of the play. “He don’t put a bolt to a nut, he don’t tell you the law or give you medicine. He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.”
— Mark Steyn's Passing Parade: Obituaries & Appreciations expanded edition by Mark Steyn
Regarding Willy Loman in Death of a Salesm
... See moreBut she wanted him to know that no one can take away joy and happiness from your life, only you;
Tony Robbins • MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
So she took him for a walk in the bright sunlight and they were both caught and killed by the shrike’s brother, a shrike named Stoop. MORAL: Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
James Thurber • Collected Fables
A character’s want is a superficial conscious desire for the thing they think they need in order to present themselves to the world, a projection of how they consciously wish to portray themselves.