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over his head. He was still, apparently,
he was: Mr. J. Lomond Esq. I stood before the buzzer,
“Everyone needs their mum now and again, doesn’t matter how old they are.”
It made evolutionary sense, I supposed, that a baby’s cries of distress would be tuned to precisely the right pitch and volume to make them impossible for an adult human to ignore.
It had to be asked for, and then counted out into
Time only blunts the pain of loss. It doesn’t erase it.
social success is often built on pretending just a little. Popular people sometimes have to laugh at things they don’t find very funny, do things they don’t particularly want to, with people whose company they don’t particularly enjoy. Not
It’s both good and bad, how humans can learn to tolerate pretty much anything, if they have to.
“Everyone does, Eleanor. All of us—and especially young children—need to know that we’re loved, valued, accepted and understood
When you’re struggling hard to manage your own emotions, it becomes unbearable to have to witness other people’s, to have to try and manage theirs too.
