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9134ca2 If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;! philosophical ataraxy fathers-and-sons coming-of-age Rudyard Kipling
4085eff I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father. fathers-and-sons Arthur Miller
a01a792 "He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer." Gregory says, "Did you not know?" fathers-and-sons Hilary Mantel
e5edbbf He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his anger at his father, and every word, however well intentioned or intentionally barbed, was a pull at a scab on his bloody heart. It was too late for any of this. There could ultimately be no healing. Marty had terminal cancer, and so did the two men have a cancer between them. They were terminal together, as father and son. They remained, momentarily exhausted, but it was really only that quiet between lightning and thunder as sound lags behind speed. The lightning had cracked the ground already, you just hadn't heard it yet. relationships parents-and-adult-children families fathers-and-sons death-of-a-loved-one parents-and-children David Duchovny