“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

—  Mitch Albom, book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

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