leave the nest Quotes

“Well it’s not skin off my nose,” she said calmly, “but seems like your boy’s old enough to make up his own mind. How old is he?” “Thirty,” Mrs. Stubbs said, “but he’s a young thirty.”

“As he handed it to me, I saw he’d gripped it so tightly his knuckles had turned white. We were not the kissing kind, me and Pa, but I wished that maybe he would at least hug me good-bye.”

“Before they left, they told Mama where they’d be-- it was a family rule that they never went anywhere without telling Mama or Papa.”