I’m not stupid, nor a liar,” I said, “and if I can’t do any good, I can at least do something - Naomi Novik

It was exactly what I wanted, only once I was in it, I didn’t want it after all.

But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing.

We're all greedy, but children make it easier to be. We feel it's only right to give them everything we can grab, even when you know that anything you feed your own child still comes out of someone else's mouth.