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"Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more."
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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."
"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."
"No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time."
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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."
"I squinted at her. "You're an adult. "You're an adult too. "But you're an older adult. You've had more practice. Mom leaned back and laughed."
"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."
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"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."
"Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more."
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