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Goodness, in their opinion, was not a virtue but merely spinelessness and fear disguised as humility.
Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction.
Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other names and cry, and grown women who are sisters will say words so cruel that each syllable will take on the form of a snake, although such a snake often circles in on itself to eat its own tail once the words are said aloud.
It’s so easy to ignore what grows in one’s own garden; look away for too long and anything can turn up—a vine, a weed, a hedge of thorns.
