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“The image is horrible, I somehow couldn't get out, probably weakness of my character if you ask me... or who knows??But after all the story could go like father rapes his son or daughter which are ...”
“She hadnt seen gold since shed lastbeen to her fathers home, when she would sneak off to meet him.Smiling at the brief memory of, as her mother called him, the onewho gave me the seed which allowed...”
“You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.”
“He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.”
“Theo's already on his way. Paul might bee too, but communications have been down so long, I don't know.""Heading out here with a storm like this coming in? That's madness." Dad sighs. "Then again, ...”
“I drift off for a while. I don't know how long, but when I open my eyes, the Oscars are still on and Alex tells me that Sid has gone and this makes me a little sad. Whatever the four of us had is o...”
“My father helped you with that. . that thing you do? Yes. Your father helped me with that peacemaking thing I do that keeps you happily killing for a living.”
“My son, do not forget your father's instructions.”
“To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a m...”
“I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his...”
“I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.”
“You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.”
“No love is greater than that of a father for His son.”
“You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.”
“You're the one who doesn't understand, I've been standing on the edge with you for years.”
“Every Autumn now my thoughts return to snow. Snow is something I identify myself with. Like my father, I am a snow person.”
“Darling,You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about, but I am writing it nonetheles...”
“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
“I'm bored," she said."Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.”
“I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.”