Parenting Quote by Aminatta Forna

“My parents and sister looked like a picture-perfect family straight from a magazine. Without me.”

— Stacy Claflin

“Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents?”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Just so we're clear, I dont' secretly want to have sex with either of my parents. Me either. I worked through that in college…

— Alex Adams

“These pictures from the photo albums of my childhood are artifacts of a time when I was happy and whole. They are evidence that,…

— Roxane Gay

“Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are... I just hope…

— Stephen Chbosky

“photographer were more than teenage sweethearts.”

— Tracy Buchanan

“And the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“My family stood right in front of me, talking and smiling. I felt like I was viewing one of those cheesy ad shots for…

— Elizabeth Morgan

“Pictures never tell the whole story," I say trying to be reassuring. "They're a projection of how people want you to see them”

— Fiona Neill

“At some point you lose sight of your actual parents; you just see a basketful of history and unresolved issues.”

— Jonathan Tropper

“And I know, with the newfuond clarity of being in a relationship myself, that my own parents were never happy together, and probably never…

— Christina Baker Kline

“The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.”

— Walter Benjamin