175 quotes found
“Whats wrong with him?Nothing. Hes just. . just. . Just what?A peacemaker. And shed dropped her voice to a whisper. What would I do with a peacemaker? The same thing I did with a whore.”
“Daughter follows mother in actions and habits and some times also follows her granny.”
“You ask me if you can eat dinner in your room, but you dontask me if you can torture ibhear to take you flying?Truly perplexed, Izzy asked softly, Why would I ask you that?”
“Say goodbye to your mom.Scottie pauses, then keeps going.Scottie.Bye! she yells.I grab her arm. I could yell at her for wanting to leave, but I dont. She pulls her arm out of my grasp. I look up to...”
“I dont know how long we stand there holding each other. It could be ten minutes, an hour, or a day. All I know is that when I finally let go, I can breathe. I can rest. I can live knowing that my b...”
“I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I was everything to her. Everything she needed.”
“Many a man has known that startling instant in which Dan Cupid, that busy young rascal, took things in hand, and told him that his baby girl was not a baby girl now, and was about to fly away from ...”
“Oh, my father, such a difficult man.His world turned on his axis.From "The Father Tamer" in BREATHE IN”
“Genesis began with the Father losing His family. Revelation ends with Him getting them back. Is there nothing to be learned from this sad cycle? Truly, family is the legitimate theme of holy text.p...”
“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something...”
“I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.”
“Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.”
“Now you look here. All your father ever dreamed of for you was to do something you loved in life. He didn't care about fancy qualifications or fancy clothes or cars, just that you were both happy a...”
“A whore Ailean may have been, but a loving, caring whore who adored his offspring and mate.”
“To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.”
“We need to get home and put some ointments and ice on the stings. Vinegar will make it worse, so if you thought Giraffe Boy could pee on you, youre shit out of luck.She agrees as if prepared for th...”
“TIA OR TARA has stopped applying makeup to my wifes face and is looking at Scottie with disapproval. The light is hitting this womans face, giving me an opportunity to see that she should perhaps b...”
“But in the end I'd marry her to the one she herself loved. To a father, the man his daughter falls in love with herself always seems the worst. That's how it is.”
“You see?" The Father whispered as the boy passed without meeting their eyes. "You shouldn't feel ashamed of your problem. Your life experiences oftentimes is the same as someone else's.”
“I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.”
