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The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

Meg Wolitzer
Children, Parent, Jackpot
Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings: A Novel”, p.206, Penguin

You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time.

Meg Wolitzer
Lonely, Children, Long
Meg Wolitzer (2008). “The Ten-Year Nap”, p.375, Penguin

Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking.

Meg Wolitzer
Baby, Children, Taken

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

Meg Wolitzer
Teacher, Children, Parent
Meg Wolitzer (2011). “The Uncoupling: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.

Meg Wolitzer
Children, Unhappy, Anxious
Meg Wolitzer (2008). “The Ten-Year Nap”, p.209, Penguin

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