Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.
Use your power gently.
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. 
Jack. What you said about endings. 
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family. 
We read to know we're not alone. 
We write to know we are not alone 
Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel. 
We read to know that we are not alone. 
We are the slaves of slaves 