Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.
You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.
The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.
You can't be stylish and petty at the same time.
Teachers were both blamed for everything that went wrong with kids and turned to for their every salvation. This dual role of scapegoat and savior was downright messianic but even Jesus was probably paid better.