The important thing is to keep talking with...
The important thing is to keep talking with herNow she's even jealous of the cows
"Then I'll keep talking to herThe important thing is not to abandon her and not to capitulate to her, and to keep talking even if you have to say the same thing over and over and overIt doesn't matter if it all seems hopelessYou can't expect what you say to have an immediate impact
"It's what she says back that has the impact!"
"It doesn't matter what she says backWe have to keep saying to her what we have to say to her, even if saying it seems interminableWe must draw the lineIf we don't draw the line, then surely she's not going to obeyIf we do draw the line, there's at least a fifty percent chance that she will
"And if she still cambon chanel doesn't?"
"All we can do, Dawn, is to continue to be reasonable and continue to be firm and not lose hope or patience, and the day will come when she will outgrow all this objecting to everything
"She doesn't want to outgrow itBut there is tomorrowThere's a bond between us all and it's tremendousAs long as we don't let her go, as long as we keep talking, tomorrow will comeOf course she's maddeningShe's unrecognizable to me, tooBut if you don't allow her to exhaust your patience and if you keep talking to her and you don't give up on her, she will eventually become herself again
And so, hopeless as it seemed, he talked, he listened, he was reasonable; endless as the struggle seemed, he remained patient, and miu miu nappa whenever he saw her going too far he drew the lineNo matter how much it might openly enrage her to answer him, no matter how sarcastic and caustic and elusive and dishonest her answers might be, he continued to question her about her political activities, about her after-school whereabouts, about her new friends; with a gentle persistence that infuriated her, he asked about her Saturday trips into New YorkShe could shout all she wanted at home--she was still just a kid from Old Rimrock, and the thought of whom she might meet in New York alarmed him
Conversation #1 about New York"What do you do when you go to New York? Who do you see in New York?"
"What do I do? I go see New York
"What do you do, Merry?"
"I do what chanel handbag 2.55 everyone else doesWhat else would a girl do?"
"You're involved with political people in New York
"I don't know what you're talking aboutEverything is politicalBrushing your teeth is political
"You're involved with people who are against the war in VietnamIsn't that who you go to see? Yes or no?"
"They're people, yesThey're people with ideas, and some of them don't b-b-b-believe in the warMost of them don't b-b-b-believe in the war
"Well, I don't happen to believe in the war myself
"So what's your problem?"
"Who are these people? How old are they? What do they do for a living? Are they students?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"Because I'd like to know what you're doingYou're alone in New York on SaturdaysNot black spy bag everyone's parents would allow a sixteen-year-old girl to go that farI, you know, there are people and dogs and streets
"You come home with all this Communist materialYou come home with all these books and pamphlets and magazines
"I'm trying to learnYou taught me to learn, didn't you? Not just to study, but to learnIt says on the page that it's Communist
"C-c-c-communists have ideas that aren't always about C-commu-nismThey have all kinds of ideasJust b-b-because you're Jewish doesn't mean you just have ideas about JudaismWell, the same holds for C-c-communism
Conversation #12 about New York"Where do you eat your meals in New York?"
"Not at Vincent's, thank God
"Where then?"
"Where everybody else eats their prada handbags sale meal