“My home is a red desert that trembles with spirits and bones. There are two reasons I came here: my father's death,… — Amy Irvine Copy Share Image
“It was the first genuinely shining day of summer, a time of year which brought Eleanor always to aching memories of her… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“I buried him on the far side of the mountain in Dong Chong-ri, facing south toward the sea. That way he could… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
A rat crept softly through the vegetation Dragging its slimy belly on the bank While I was fishing in the dullcanal On… — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
“Adam said, “Just thinking.” And he was thinking with amazement, Why, I’m not afraid of my brother! I used to be scared… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life. — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
“His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A few years after my father's death, my mother sent me to the United Kingdom for 'better prospects' in 1951. Those four… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“Otto Cone as a man of seventy-plus years jumped into an open lift shaft and died. Now this was a subject which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The bastard. How dare he? I was drowning in a fucking river that he was still attempting to save me from, and… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
“[On Socrates] My decision to prove reincarnation to the sophomoric cavemen of Athens, quite possibly, was the best decision I made for… — Alejandro C. Estrada Copy Share Image
“At thirteen, Noboru was convinced of his own genius (each of the others in the gang felt the same way) and certain… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“The story told in these quaint words was, without any doubt, read by Shakespeare and in the alembic of his imagination grew… — Mary Platt Parmele Copy Share Image
Even when I was young, there were times I could tell my mother wasn't handling my father's death well, but she was… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
“But you know!" Lily exclaimed. "I know about Father's death," Bronwyn crisply countered,wishing Lily had some ability to control her emotions. But… — Michele Sinclair Copy Share Image
For the first time [with the Bible] - I know this sounds so corny - but I knew love. I had such… — Paula White Copy Share Image
[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“His eyes gleamed in the darkness. “I don’t understand why mundanes always apologize for things that aren’t their fault.” “I’m not apologizing.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
When [our secrets] are sad and hurtful secrets, like my father's death, we can in a way honor the hurt by letting… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
“Since his father’s death he had begun more and more to differentiate between people who did what they should, and those who… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
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