# Quote — Richard Yates, Cold Spring Harbor

> And he didn't mind at all. Downstairs and outdoors and alone again, back in the trampled dust in front of the place, he pitied the drab supervisor and all her quick, harried, frowning children because none of them looked as though they had anything worth waiting for, tonight or ever.

- Author: [Richard Yates](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates.md)
- Book: [Cold Spring Harbor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/cold-spring-harbor.md)
- Page: 120
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/cold-spring-harbor/and-he-didnt-mind

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> Sometimes the world was just too fucking much.

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> And he was afraid she might be taking this much too seriously, so he reached out to stroke or tousle her hair, but that didn't work because she'd just been to the hairdresser and didn't want to get it messed up.

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> One advantage of the very low lighting in this room, he'd decided, was that it could make almost any girl look like a million dollars.

p. 123 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/cold-spring-harbor/one-advantage-of-the.md)