“ So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it? ”
Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I’d learn. Nothing was going to stop me.
~ E.r. Braithwaite
Oh God, forgive me for the hateful thoughts, because I love them, these brutal, disarming bastards, I love them …
Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.
The betrayal I now felt was greater because it had been perpetrated with the greatest of charm and courtesy.
