Adult life Quote by C.S. Lewis

“My own dad had given me a terrific gift: he told me, both verbally and by his behavior, that he cared only about the…

— Anonymous

“Hold on a minute, I thought to myself, there is something really, really wrong here. That he would have me followed and allow me…

— Ron Miscavige

“I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier, mythological life…

— Margaret Atwood

“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent…

— Nicole Krauss

“You will get your father's wealth one day but not his legacy.”

— Amit Kalantri

“My father was a stand–up man who, unfortunately, did not have anything to stand up for. An eternal conflict burned in his heart, a…

— Henry Martin

“The voice told me that it was my father who was to blame. He was responsible for this moment, this business of me dejected,…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Even now, I found it difficult to believe that my father could or might be dying. He had always been a strong man, a…

— Ann Marston

“I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of…

— Harriet A. Jacobs

“But in that one little window of time, many lasting decisions were made. First, any love for my father that might have remained either…

— Douglas Coupland

“And then, again, I was undergoing with my father what the very young inevitability undergo with their elders: I was beginning to judge him.…

— James Baldwin

“was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat…

— Veronica Roth