# Quote — Richard Yates, Cold Spring Harbor

> Rachel became slowly aware now, even while talking and listening to her own voice, that there might well be something universal about the pleasure a grown girl could take in disparaging her mother. Maybe it happened with sons and their fathers, too, or with all grown children and the ever-diminishing presence of parents in their lives; in any case, the knowledge didn't prevent her from pressing on, as if to see how far she would dare to go.

- 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: 64
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/cold-spring-harbor/rachel-became-slowly

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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.

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