What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says “keep away from children.” – Susan Savannah
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame. – Antonia S. Byatt