“There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.”
Part 4, Chapter 11 (p. 204)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
“Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.”
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