You see, the last thing my daughter wants is to be happy. She’d hate it. No, what she wants is to be finally… — Tom Holt
You see, the last thing my daughter wants is to be happy. She’d hate it. No, what she wants is to be finally, definitively unhappy, and for it all to be my fault. It’d finally confirm all her dearest illusions about how her life has been ruined. People like that would far rather be right than happy.
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