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“The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the worlda desire that was still alive, despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the bu...”
“I have the solution to all my problems. I have money, position, the running of one of the countrys legendary cattle stations. I can even get the girl I want. I cant buy her, of course. Shes got mon...”
“Don't focus on the mountain; focus on the mountain mover!" HS/el”
“I watched the rain stream across the window in little rivulets with sunshine coming through. For me, the rain has always been an emotional thing that makes me very happy. However, living with the f...”
“Fathers...Rise at dawn.Stand up strong.Fix and build.Plow the field.Carry the weight.Work 'til late.Encourage our dreams.Provide the means.Fight with might.Defend what's right.Protect the home.Refu...”
“He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.”
“In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.”
“[My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He did...”
“Ethans voice was choked. I realize now, what my father felt. When I left home. He must have felt as if everything was ending. That everything he knew was finishing. I wasn't even aware of what he w...”
“I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father's house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty.”
“He nodded and leaned down to kiss me. I let him, Dad be damned.”
“Will you remember this day, Gogol?" his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to either side of his head. "How long do I have to remember it?" Over the rise...”
“I wont tolerate her hurting you, my son. Ill kill the bitch first.Werent you the one who tried to cut fathers throat before he Claimed you?"He deserved it,”
“He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadnt even started to be grown-ups together. There was this piece of heaven, this little girl hed carried around...”
“He knows that if his father had been a different man, or his mother another women, he would have been the same. He would have lived all his years the same way. They played no part. Any combination ...”
“It is to the prodigals...that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning.”
“Just by writing this story, I thought that I am the real monster, I had the feeling that I am doing it.... it was just awful!”
“Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school.”
“We can think a healed thought and speak a healed word, speak of and to the two who are One, our MotherGoddessFatherGod. The hopeful but misty thought that "I've a Mother there" will give way to the...”
“Old is the tree and the fruit good,Very old and thick the wood.Woodman, is your courage stout?Beware! the root is wrapped aboutYour mother's heart, your father's bones;And like the mandrake comes w...”
