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."

"There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension."