Sara

“This is the way it is done. This is the way our fathers taught us." [Briggs]

"Your fathers," Val replied, "were full of shit.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

“Life hurts,” he said fiercely. “It’s unavoidable. But I know the difference between torture and growing pains.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“Donald has always needed to perpetuate the fiction my grandfather started that he is strong, smart, and otherwise extraordinary, because facing the truth—that he is none of those things—is too terrifying for him to contemplate.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

“I hope this book will end the practice of referring to Donald’s “strategies” or “agendas,” as if he operates according to any organizing principles. He doesn’t. Donald’s ego has been and is a fragile and inadequate barrier between him and the real world, which, thanks to his father’s money and power, he never had to negotiate by himself. Donald has always needed to perpetuate the fiction my grandfather started that he is strong, smart, and otherwise extraordinary, because facing the truth—that he is none of those things—is too terrifying for him to contemplate.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man