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‘Some people really shouldn’t become parents. There’s no absolute guarantee when it comes to the love between a parent and their child.’
Repeated patterns of childhood behaviour have long-term consequences.
‘But you don’t need to complain about every little thing. Just take it as it comes, be grown-up about it.’
When an animal’s life is over, it rests where it falls, and it often seems to me
that humans are such worriers, to think of preparing a place for people to sleep when they are dead. If you have to consider what’s going to happen after you die, life becomes doubly troublesome.
Learning to have some insight into other people’s sensitivities was, she concluded, more difficult than mastering the law.
As we count up the memories from one journey, we head off on another. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon.
