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‘The truth in these words struck me to the core. I was incapable of saying anything in reply.
“…being born is probably the most difficult thing we ever have to do. I am convinced that everything else that comes afterwards is nowhere near as hard. If you can survive the ordeal of being born, you can get through anything.”

“..it’s possible to make something other than what you originally set out to do.”

“Imagine what an awful shock it must have been to come into contact with air for the first time, not knowing where I was. Of course I forgotten what that felt like now. But it’s why, whenever I feel happy or glad about something, I count my blessings and think to myself, ‘Now wasn’t that worth all the effort of being born?”

“While I do believe that it was hard work for my mother to give birth to me, it also took me every ounce of my own strength to endure the extremely difficult process of being born. After all that time inside my mother‘s belly growing into a human being, with nobody to guide me, all of a sudden I was thrust into an entirely new and strange environment.“

“Her dazzling youth...I was moved by her determination. She reminded me of myself and my own considerable effort to find the perfect job and company when I graduated…”

“This book has pictures of flies and cockroaches in it too. They’re drawn with real affection. It’s a lovely book, I think, because it’s written from a child’s perspective. Children don’t have the prejudices that adults do about insects we usually regard as pests.”

“…sometimes I carry this book about with me like a talisman—a colourful array of sticky notes poking out from its pages, contrasting starkly with the whiteness within...”

“Oh, Santa has such fun problems to solve.”

“December sunshine warms my skin as I think back
over the year…”

“We all come to understand at some point in our lives that there is no Santa Claus. But the reason Santa Claus remains an integral part of Christmas celebrations is not for the sake of small children. It is because grown-ups who were once children themselves continue to hold this truth of Santa Claus in their hearts even after they become adults and they live in that belief.”