That Special Mother-Daughter Bond

Since Liz's adolescence, when viewing television commercials that celebrated the ostensibly unconditional love of mothers for their children, or on spotting merchandise in stores that honored this unique bond with poems or effusive declarations—picture frames, magnets, oven mitts—she had felt liek a foreign exchange student observing the customs of another country.

Curtis Sittenfeld, Eligible (New York: Random House, 2016), p. 155

Young Worker Generalizes from One Job Experience: Everyone's Crooked

I learned that in the mainstream, everybody is dishonest everywhere. The clients we dealt with, the industry we were in, the business that we sustained . . . all crooked. Every day was a combination of deceptions, little white lies, misrepresentations, slight bendings of the facts, and dramatic distortions of reality. And this was in a business that had no reason, conceptually speaking, to behave unethically.

Dave Tomar, The Shadow Scholar: How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat (New York: Bloomsbury, 2012), p. 6 (ellipsis in original).