I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.
Jane SmileyMen are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family
Jane SmileyMost of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
Jane Smiley