Brittany’s Reviews > East of Eden > Status Update

"I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running sore."

"There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well-or ill?"

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"And in his mind he cried, "Don't let me be mean.""

"[...]the trappings of a girl inhibited her."

"We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff."

"I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb."

"Some people exude their futures, good or bad."