Chocolates for Breakfast

Why shouldn’t the child sleep when she has nothing that she wants to be awake for?”

Courtney hung with them and the other girls were hardly aware of her presence, although Courtney was going through agonies of unsureness and watching them closely to see if they resented her presence

He presents the parent as the figure who must be conquered if the child is to gain independence and identity.”

the idea of mountains and people being just different arrangements of things of the same shape was disagreeable to her

as soon as she was outside she began to run because she was fifteen and it was a wonderful spring day