Ancestor Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

“And the intimate profundity of that look he gave me when he received his hurt remains to this day in my memory-like a claim…

— Joseph Conrad

“Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor.…

— William Styron

“He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living…

— Adam P. Knave

“...that distant longing and determination, that knowledge that he was born for something greater than his small past or his sleepy present.”

— Leon Logothetis

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only…

— Dean Koontz

“His mother’s death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he perceived, belonged…

— George Orwell

“Abruptly, they seemed alike to me and equally dear: my father, my son. I felt as though my father had been waiting for this…

— Sue Miller

“Or rather, it made him into two people. He was by nature a cheerful almost irrepressible person with a great zest for life. He…

— Humphrey Carpenter

“But he'd never pictured himself as a father and had had no idea that there was an emotion that was a combination of pride,…

— Erin Nicholas

“He could see now that asking the dead about his father was nearly useless, so burdened were they with their own losses and regrets…

— Ari Berk

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...it stung, too, knowing that it was easier for his father to erase his only son's existence than it was for him to tolerate…

— Libba Bray