“I’ve sometimes thought that it’s only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.” I CanSometimesKidsFacesFeltMy OwnDevotionDesperate Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.” IfsThinkingMenKindI CanPlayFeelingsWould BeGivenIdentityFootballBedDesperateAmerican Football Author:Keith Millard
“You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work.” LittlesI CanStatesHelpingMightAbleWorstDesperateHelp MeDesperation Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters