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“Eventually, many years later, I came to see him the way everyone else saw hima nice guy who, despite all the damage he did to us, wasnt a bad man, not inherently bad, anyway. He just wasnt very bri...”
“Going home means going back in time. It's not a trip you care to take alone, and anyway, isn't that the main reason to take a mate? So you have an ally in the civil war against your parents?”
“In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow - and grow, maybe, to hate us, for keeping you ...”
“The penguins that spent most of their time fighting were the ones with no chicks...It's like they're supposed to be taking care of their chicks. But because they don't have any, they have nothing t...”
“It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance...after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place”
“I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.”
“Leesha knew from experience that when parents don't parent, kids grow up fast.”
“From something as simple as what goes in to a good meatloaf to the not so simple - religion, culture, how you should vote, every damn thing you think or believe, your reactions, your behavior - wer...”
“That's the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don't really care, or at least they don't care enough to let it affect the outcome.”
“I couldn't keep myself from wondering how on earth I got to have such demented parents".”
“Some of our parents were always on our side. Some of our parents chose to banish us rather than see us for who we were. And some of our parents, when they found out we were sick, stopped being drag...”
“My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That's what parents exist for: to pass th...”
“A mother is the person who takes care of you when you're sick. The one who holds you when you're afraid. The one who follows the bus to school on the first day to make sure you made it okay. I have...”
“There is nothing so difficult to arrive at as the nature and personality of one's parents. Death, about which so much mystery is made,is perhaps no mystery at all. But the history of one's parents ...”
“After I lie there for a while, I realize that Dad isn't every going to do anything but be there to drive us home from the airport. And cook. And if I want something bigger to change, it's up to me....”
“Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.”
“Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.”
“Parents are the most precious gift given by the god. We should take care of it.”
“Damn! - I'd rather walk into something of my own accord than to be frogmarched into it.""So it says here in the file. James Mowry, twenty-six, restless and pigheaded. Can be trusted to do anything ...”
“There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.”
