Parenting Quote by Ann Patchett

“It wasn’t her fault, but it was her fate, like so many single mothers, to be caught between a wistful child and his fantasies…

— Eric Ripert

“It’s not my fault.” For all those decades, she thought there was something wrong with her. She believed her father when he said she…

— Tracy Zager

“But her voice sounded wistful. It is one of her theories that a woman must never be jealous, never try to hold man against…

— Dodie Smith

“given that she barely saw her father, given that she continued to measure out her contact with him, whether to deny herself or to…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Will had already put her on notice that he would not have sex with her while her dad was in the house. She couldn’t…

— Marie Force

“most of all, she’d learned that she had to rely on herself. Certainly her father and her sister couldn’t be counted on.”

— Kristin Hannah

“I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.”

— Laura Whitcomb

“That night she admitted her compulsion to escape. She was worried that if my father drowned, or I disappeared, she would be left with…

— Simon Van Booy

“But Dad said we had to try, because neither he or I could bear the thought of living the rest of our lives without…

— Jostein Gaarder

“She stood by the bed and stroked her father's hand, knowing how desperately afraid he must feel at this moment. He'd always prided himself…

— Hillary Jordan

“She couldn’t imagine a father hurting his child. Or a mother failing to protect her child.”

— Ellen Marie Wiseman

“Somehow she’d ended up in bed with the man mothers warn their daughters to stay away from. The kind of man fathers go after…

— Tessa Bailey