"

There's something to that in both directions," said Ekaterin mildly. "Nothing is more guaranteed to make one start acting like a child than to be trea...more

"

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment...more

"

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.