Meg Wolitzer - The Ten-Year Nap (2008)

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Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.

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You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you'd given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn't know the outcome for a long time.

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It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.

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