go wrong with you
Every expression of sensitivity was taken as proof of childishness and of the fact that whoever allowed it in himself was still a little boy. Not yet having experienced the bitter trials that lead adults to caution and reserve in their relationships, we deprived ourselves of the pure pleasures of tender childhood attachment merely from the strange desire to be grown-ups.
the yellow USED sticker on the sacrum of so many of my books is making me miserable. like a tramp stamp.