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"All parents damage their children. Information technology cannot be helped. Youth, similar pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others cleft, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged footling pieces, beyond repair."
― The Five People You Come across in Sky
― The Five People You Come across in Sky
"Dearest can change a person the fashion a parent can alter a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess."
― Horseradish
― Horseradish
"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."
― The Movie of Dorian Grayness
― The Movie of Dorian Grayness
"The Vocalisation
There is a vocalization inside of yous
That whispers all day long,
"I experience this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What'south right for you--but listen to
The voice that speaks inside."
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"Parents are similar God because you wanna know they're out there, and you desire them to call up well of you, just you really merely telephone call when you need something."
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
"When a child beginning catches adults out -- when it offset walks into his grave picayune head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are non always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all rubber gone. And there is one certain thing nigh the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink securely into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them upwardly again; they never quite polish. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing."
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day y'all must be a stranger to ane of your parents. Your mother will never come across you over again if yous practise not marry Mr. Collins, and I volition never run into you again if you practise."
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
"I also believe that parents, if they dearest yous, will hold you upwards safely, in a higher place their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a fashion you lot otherwise wouldn't."
― For One More Solar day
― For One More Solar day
"When y'all loved someone and had to let them go, in that location will ever be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that yous wanted and why didn't you fight for it?"
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"Through the mistiness, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were then deep and sharp that in the end they left you lot raw, exposed and yes, in hurting. The human heart was not designed to crush outside the human trunk and withal, each child represented just that - a parent'due south heart bared, beating forever outside its breast."
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"The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They strength us to destroy the person nosotros actually are: a subtle kind of murder."
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"Information technology is fourth dimension for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."
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"Simply she wasn't around, and that'south the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with fill-in, you are going into every fight alone."
― For One More 24-hour interval
― For One More 24-hour interval
"You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a adept mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn xviii. Some people abound up sooner, many abound upward subsequently. Some never really practice. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids nosotros cry for."
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"My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents mutter that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, only the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, every bit I did every twenty-four hour period of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an flat with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, and so I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS Go along OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading."
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat out their kids in department stores. It's the ones who only allow their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates."
― A Muddied Chore
― A Muddied Chore
"Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the near wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?"
― The Red Pyramid
― The Red Pyramid
"It's a funny affair about mothers and fathers. Even when their own kid is the nearly icky picayune blister y'all could ever imagine, they still recall that he or she is wonderful."
― Matilda
― Matilda
"Faith can exist very very unsafe, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable listen of an innocent child is a grievous wrong."
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
"If you environs yourself with the practiced and righteous, they tin can only raise you up. If yous surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you in that location, but only as long as you let it."
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"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, merely I e'er plant them."
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"Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and placidity."
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"...when your child dies, you lot feel everything you'd look to feel, feelings so well-documented by so many others that I won't even bother to list them hither, except to say that everything that's written about mourning is all the aforementioned, and it's all the same for a reason - considering there is no read deviation from the text. Sometimes you feel more of ane matter and less of another, and sometimes you feel them out of guild, and sometimes you experience them for a longer time or a shorter time. But the sensations are always the same.
But here's what no i says - when it'due south your kid, a part of yous, a very tiny only nonetheless unignorable part of you, besides feels relief. Because finally, the moment you take been expecting, been dreading, been preparing yourself for since the twenty-four hour period yous became a parent, has come up.
Ah, you tell yourself, it'due south arrived. Hither it is.
And afterwards that, you have zippo to fear again."
― A Little Life
"Information technology never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it e'er volition."
― Ninth Class Slays
― Ninth Class Slays
"I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids."
― Christine
― Christine
"My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom e'er told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. Information technology was kind of her to say, but he did practice harm."
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
"I would have given anything to keep her piffling. They outgrow u.s.a. so much faster than we outgrow them.
Brian Fitzgerald, talking almost his children."
― My Sister's Keeper
Brian Fitzgerald, talking almost his children."
― My Sister's Keeper
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