We aren't a drop in the ocean, but are the ocean, in drops. - Anne Lamott

If it sounds literary, remove it. The goal isn't to sound literary. The goal is to sound human.

You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept.

I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.'
Oh, Rae. Who hasn't