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The Bible says that an ungrateful child is like a serpent’s tooth, but a nagging and ungrateful Wife is ever so much sharper than that.
The rage in his eyes was of the raw, pure sort that only adolescents can feel. It is rage that doesn’t count the cost.
And is there Hell, or do we make our own on earth?
I was like one of those Russian nesting dolls? Perhaps. Perhaps every man is like that. Inside me was the Conniving Man, but inside the Conniving Man was a Hopeful Man.
When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans.
Very young men cannot help but put their first loves on pedestals, and should someone come along and spit on the paragon . . . even if it happens to be one’s mother . . .
She expressed the opinion that feelings, like fairness, were also the last resort of weaklings.
They say that loving eyes can never see, but that’s a fool’s axiom. Sometimes they see too much.
