Broken Quote by Angela Carter

I thought my dad was out of work, because my friends had fathers with briefcases who'd go off somewhere with bow ties on. But…

— Thomas Steinbeck

When... I told my father I wanted to be a writer, he had asked me to consider my unfortunate wife, who would have me…

— John Mortimer

My father died and left me his blessing and his business. His blessing brought no money into my pocket, and as to his business,…

— Washington Irving

“All those years I'd kept an outline of my father in my head, like a chalk line enclosing a father-shaped space. When I was…

— Margaret Atwood

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

— Mitch Albom

“Seeing my father behind a thick glass wall in an orange jumpsuit was hammering it home, that life as I knew it was about…

— Winter Travers

I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove,…

— Ally Carter

To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not…

— Li-Young Lee

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep

— Thom Yorke

I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, You know, today I welded…

— Toni Morrison

Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it…

— Garth Nix

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a…

— Victor Borge