Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.
Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.
It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.