"As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard."

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Source : "Dear Parents: Leave Us Alone" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

Adora Svitak

#Children Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Trying Quotes

“All that is beautiful shall abide, All that is base shall die.”
“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
“I can always remember standing up to the baddest girls in my elementary school. Wherever I went, there was always a mean girl, and that girl would always hate me because I wouldnâ€™t bow down.”
“I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.”
“Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.”
“Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.”
“In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.”
“I'm a late-night guy.”

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