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My Father Quotes by Alice Sebold
- Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me…
- The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it.…
- Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
- I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the…
- My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor…
- Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone…
- Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with…
- It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He saw me standing…
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