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“After you are here, I will try not to become one of those parents who brag incessantly about their children, who force them to recite the alphabet backward or sing the Lord's Prayer in German to horrified dinner guests. One of those parents who tell people who aren't interested and haven't askd what their progeny's grade-point average is, what school they go to, how handsome and brilliant and psychic they are.
If something goes awry and I do become one of those parents, you have my permission to sneak into my bedroom while I am sleeping and pinch my nostrils shut.”
― The Zygote Chronicles
If something goes awry and I do become one of those parents, you have my permission to sneak into my bedroom while I am sleeping and pinch my nostrils shut.”
― The Zygote Chronicles
“God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― The Lorax
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― The Lorax
“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
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