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“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother...”
“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”
“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”
“Each one of us has hated his or her parents at some point in early life how quickly we turn around our feelings determines our extent of success.”
“No matter how long its been or how far youve drifted, no matter how unknowable you might be, there were at least two people in the world whose job it was to see you, to find you, to recognize you a...”
“Poverty doesn't make parents unfit any more than wealth deems them appropriate.”
“But Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?”
“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”
“Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.”
“First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”
“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”
“Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.”
“We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.”
“Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.”
“Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.”
“No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.”
“My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.”
“In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.”
“Our fathers never leave us. Ever.”
“Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into an eye for our child, or I and my dear wife will tear you into shreds.”
