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"A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience."
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"Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized."
"There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding."
"What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts."
"For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself."
"That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do."
"What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces, we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me."
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"There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove."
"I had never considered that you might miss a job like you missed a limb - a constant, reflexive thing. I hadn't thought as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than you were rudely shocked in to consciousness by the alarm. That you might missed the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them."
"She had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across them like reflections on a still pond."
"Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith."
"You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group."
"The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding."
"She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn't really a smile at all, and they went on."
"The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved."
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