[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.
People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God. - Helen Van Slyke
People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.
- Helen Van Slyke
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriage… - Helen Van Slyke
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriage…
Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth. - Helen Van Slyke
Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.
I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their happiness a… - Helen Van Slyke
I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their happiness a…
Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter. - Helen Van Slyke
Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.
[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 th… - Helen Van Slyke
[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 th…
It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and shelt… - Helen Van Slyke
It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and shelt…
Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes. - Helen Van Slyke
Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.
The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat - Helen Van Slyke
The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat
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