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Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

Jul 05, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.

Jul 05, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

Jul 04, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Jul 04, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

Jul 04, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

Jun 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.

Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

Jun 14, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Jun 14, 2024 - Fabian Biese>