“Having a date with someone other than your ex-wife after being a married man for more than twenty five years was an important occasion alright, but wearing a tie she bought with such strong emotional value attached to it was a form of cowardice, a subconscious reluctance to let go.” LoveMarriageLetting GoRelationship QuotesDatingWake UpDivorceMoving ForwardAshamedJapanCowardCowardiceAmericanTokyoOnline DatingEx WifeExUndying LoveTieOld CoupleWhite Man And The Pachinko GirlShamefulnessAfter It EndsEmotional ValueLetting Of The Past Book:The White Man and the Pachinko Girl Source: The White Man and the Pachinko Girl
“What he can't bear is when he has to act as nursemaid, for Ernesto mistrusts children instinctively. He thinks they're cunning, clever, wiser in many things than their scrubbed little faces reveal. Those eyes, so penetrating and so new, have an unerring way of exposing the more shameful secrets and stupid weaknesses of the grown-ups. Ernesto feels a strange uneasiness at being thus observed and subjected to scrutiny.” ChildrenSecretsExposureScrutinyMistrustWeaknessesCaretakersShamefulnessNursemaids Book:Balún Canán Source: Balún Canán