“ Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it. ”
You get olderand you are a whole mess of things,new thoughts, sorry feelings,big plans, enormous doubts,goling along hoping and getting disappointed,over and over again,no wonder I don't recognizemy little crayon picture.It appears to be meand it isand it is not.
~ Virginia Euwer Wolff
I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.
I sure would like to get kissed.How would that feel on my mouth,How different would I be after,a changed climate down in my insides?
He could add something to the list of things you weren't supposed to do. Don't get hurt, don't get dirty, don't get drunk, don't get scared, don't count on it. You ended up doing all of them.
