"Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances."

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Source : "McGavick on McGavick" by Josh Feit, slog.thestranger.com.

Mike McGavick

#Pain Quotes #Children Quotes #Divorce Quotes

“And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.”
“Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.”
“I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.”
“Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ***** girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.”
“It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.”
“Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make great names for themselves, start amazingly early.... Like mathematicians and musicians. Poets develop later.”
“Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.”
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.”

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