QUOTE OF THE DAY

And how swiftly life would descend on the boys, as well. First the panic that maybe they’d have to go through it alone, then the quick marriage to prevent that grim fate, followed by relentless house and car payments and doctors’ bills and all the rest...They’d gravitate to bars like her mother’s to get away from these same girls and then the children neither they nor their wives would be clever and independent enough to prevent...Their jobs, their marriages, their kids, their lives--all of it a grind.

~Richard Russo, Empire Falls