“Do you think it's true what they say - that parents of only children don't get on very well?" she asked.
I mulled over the idea. But I couldn't work out its cause and effect.
"Where did you hear that?" I asked.
"Somebody said that to me. A long time ago. Parents who don't get on very well end up having only one child. It made me so sad when I heard that.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
I mulled over the idea. But I couldn't work out its cause and effect.
"Where did you hear that?" I asked.
"Somebody said that to me. A long time ago. Parents who don't get on very well end up having only one child. It made me so sad when I heard that.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Sometimes when I see the two of them playing together at home, I'm amazed. A whole other way of raising children. When I was a child, I always played alone. I thought that was how everyone played.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“You're so young. You can eat the whole world, if you want to. - Taxi driver, London, May 2019”
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“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― The Love Hypothesis
― The Love Hypothesis
“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever - something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
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