“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”
Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist
“Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.”
— William Faulkner, book Light in August
Source: Light in August
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