62 quotes found
“Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.”
“He lowered his eyes to his dad's face. There was fear there. Fear. When your dad was frightened, there was something to be frightened about.”
“Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well, Elsa figures. Because a perfectionist and a pedant are two very different things.”
“I've survived revolution, war, and over a decade on this continent," the Burgrave reflected. "But by all the ghosts of the hundred emperors, I think fatherhood will finally do me in.”
“Dad, despite the fact you can be a right grumpy bastard, Im so incredibly grateful to have you in my life.”
“My Dad has been a feminist, way before I learnt how to spell the word.”
“Hell, there're already too many psychologists; too many everythings. Too many engineers, too many chemists, too many doctors, too many dentists, too many sociologists. There aren't enough people wh...”
“I dont remember his face or the place we ate. I only remember how he grabbed my hand and his voice when he spoke of his dad.”
“Should I leave you two alone?" he asked, changing the subject."He's taken," I said, accepting the fact that forgiving himself was something Reyes didn't do. "Osh. By someone very special.""And who ...”
“My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.”
“To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.”
“At first I thought he was laughing because his shoulders were shaking, but then he put his palms on his eyes and I realized he was crying. It was the quietest crying I've ever heard. Like a whisper...”
“Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?”
“If you love your dad, its tough when he dies. If you dont like your dad, its tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didnt get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.”
“I was desperate to discover what nothing felt like. It was the absence of something that attracted me. It was the start. Everything important originated with nothingness.”
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn't it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had it in you to be.”
“She didnt want to keep talking about him as if everything was okay. Worst of all, she hated sorting through his mail. Reading the hatred people had for her family and worse, reading how others immo...”
“Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.”
“As I enlarged my vision to see the bigger picture of my dads full life, I was better able to let go of being stuck in memories of its end.”
“Beautiful is the man who leaves a legacy that of shared love and life. It is he who transfers meaning, assigns significance and conveys in his loving touch the fine art and gentle shaping of a life...”
