The Wake Up

by Catherine Ryan Hyde

If we’d somehow seen him as a young boy being abused, we’d feel terribly sorry for him. We’d properly see that younger version of him as an innocent victim. But now he’s all grown up and acting out the shape he’s been twisted into being, and we have nothing for him but our hatred.”

animals. I think people who relate to animals only are closed off from the people around them.

“Human nature. After something works out, we forget the frustration of the steps we took in getting there.”