“Kit, you say your mother hasn't changed, but she has. A hundred times she's changed. It's important to know with adults, thought… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“I feel like a parent whose children prefer to stay inside and watch TV. The father pleads, "It's a beautiful day. Why… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“ How do you know this? Because I'm always watching people. When I watch people I too look through them. I learned… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“but her style of parenting was predicated on hoping for things over which she had little or no control.” — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Cancer walked all over my father, in large part because he opened the door, turned on the porch light, and invited it… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“When my parents passed on, and we read their wills, we discovered something we didn’t at all expect, especially from our devoutly… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“I watch, and the mothers watch. I do not know how to interact with the mothers. Am I them? They occasionally try… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“I worry about exposing him to bands like Journey, the appreciation of which will surely bring him nothing but the opprobrium of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Kit, you know the key to relating to your parents now? It’s mercy. Children, when they become teenagers and then young adults,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“None of this I'd mine. My father is not mine- not in that way. His death and what he's done are not… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“This was Josie’s preferred method of parenting: go someplace like this, with grand scale and much to be discovered, and watch your… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
My parents told me they were going to kill me at least a thousand times growing up. "I'm gonna kill you," and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“I prayed. I flattened myself under her bed and prayed. My mother sat up, rigid, trembling. The machines flew overhead then away… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Did you hear that crazy man? we said. --Education is your mother? we said. We laughed and did imitations. We thought Mr.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“4. THE CRUMBLING WALL (Hamburger, prepared medium well, with bacon and barbecue sauce. Courtesy of that place on Solano, where, it should be mentioned,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I haven't long to live. TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: That's probably true. LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I won't even make it to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Overnight, all comment boards became civil, all posters held accountable. The trolls, who had more or less overtaken the internet, were driven back into… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?” — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
