“ What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. ”
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
~ Mignon Mclaughlin
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.