"[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when we seem less than perfect. And try to understand, ourselves, when they're not all we'd like them to be."

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Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

Helen Van Slyke

#Perfect Quotes #Parent Quotes #Trying Quotes

“If you donâ€™t know how to fix it, please, stop breaking it.”
“Never let the things money can buy, rob you of the things money can't buy.”
“I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.”
“I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.”
“I have doubts! I have such doubts!”

Source : John Patrick Shanley (2008). “Doubt (movie tie-in edition)”, p.61, Theatre Communications Group
“I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.”
“It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.”
“By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.”

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