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“Sometimes I’d take off my earmuffs and memory goggles and turn around to discover that my father had been standing in the doorway, just…

— Joshua Foer

“Oh.” My dad actually looked sheepish. “It’s one o’clock in the morning and I was going to tell you to shut the monkey up…

— Jennifer Echols

“Dad had attention issues and Ms. Scarecrow Brain wouldn’t notice a flying monkey if it smacked her in the face.”

— Katie McGarry

“His ears and nose were raspberry red, and when he spoke, a cloud of vapor billowed from his mouth. I wanted to tell him…

— Kathy Reichs

“And I can't believe you didn't tell me you were all goo-goo eyed over my dad. Oh, and that you failed to mention you…

— Kade Boehme

“I was just about to get up when Dad rushed into the kitchen. He was in pajamas, which was totally bizarre. Dad never came…

— Rachel Hawkins

“There was a sharp knock on the front door and being that it was a flimsy piece of shit the thing creaked and opened…

— James Cox

“my mother snatched the rope necklaces away and was yelling at my father.”

— Suzanne Collins

“For the first time, it hit me that my mother and father were deaf.”

— Lou Ann Walker

“Nobody sounds like that! Mom, Aunt Nan, it won’t work. No way is he ever, ever, ever going to blend in. And his...you know…his…

— Anne Eliot

“Hairy monkeyballs!” I hiss. “Dogshit on a stick! Puke pancakes!” A head pokes in. Wren, green eyes smiling, walks over to my bed. “I…

— Sara Wolf

“I should have known then it wasn´t nothing , as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn…

— Suzanne Finnamore