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“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

Book:The Virgin Suicides

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The Virgin Suicides

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Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist known for his unique narrative style and profound portrayal of complex family relationships. His works often explore identity, genetics, and human emotions. more

“If we remain positive and accept what is, if we tend to pay attention to the beauty of the practice but not examine the insides, we will be less likely to give ourselves the benefit of the doubt, and we will forgo the potential beauty of our birth culture, and if we forgo the potential of our birth culture, it's harder to see the beauty within ourselves.”

Love Parents Finding Yourself Adoption Story

Book:Adoption Stories

Source: Adoption Stories

“Your taste for literature did not come from your father, who read little, but from your mother, who taught it. You wondered how, being so different, they could have formed a union; but you noted that in you there was a mixture of the violence of the one and the gentleness of the other. Your father exerted his violence on others. Your mother was sympathetic to the suffering of others. One day you directed the violence you had inherited toward yourself. You dished it out like your father and you took it like your mother.”

Depression Suicide Parents

Book:Suicide

Source: Suicide

“…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the world hurt her just as much as they hurt him and that except for the fact that she was older, there was no difference between them.”

Life Childhood Parents Parents And Children

Book:4 3 2 1

Source: 4 3 2 1

“Athletes are born winners, there not born loosers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become sucessful in life.”

Kids Sports Baseball Coaches Parents

Author:Charles R. Sledge Jr.

“Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.”

World Parenting Parents Child Kill Monster Antinatalism

Book:Concrete

Source: Concrete

“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”

Love Mother Father Parents Parents And Children

Book:One Plus One

Source: One Plus One

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