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“Here was an unknown quantity-a child in breeches with a blue scarf wound around his neck whose job it was to get them out…

— Timothy Findley

“All my life my dad felt this need to protect his kids from a war he fought, a war I believed could never reach…

— Tucker Elliot

“It was, come to think of it, a little like a kinder, gentler Psycho-Dad making one of his command decisions. Exactly the same, only…

— Ilsa J. Bick

“As he told me how his parents had raided his room, I could tell his heart was filled with agony and regret. They had…

— Charles Benedict

“we are genuinely discussing how we envision ourselves fighting off an attack. Really, it’s something that all mothers and daughters should discuss. The same…

— Gabourey Sidibe

“His grandparents lived on an old farm. Like he should have considered that psycho teenage girls might be leaving tainted steaks for his dog…

— Brigid Kemmerer

“We’ve made a wrong place for fathers in the world, so they throw their lives at heroisms and braveries and wars, and winning and…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Terror builds inside him. The reality that tonight will be his last leaves a sour taste in his mouth. The Tainted will eat him,…

— Laura Kreitzer

“But he recovered in a few hours, and as soon as his mind had cleared, he threw them out of the house with the…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“What horrifying torture this poor man must have endured. Out of a wise man they have made a miserable bundle of flesh and bones.”

— Rafik Schami

“Dads earned money and kept you fed and clothed and drove you around the place, but mums wrapped their bodies around yours and made…

— Sharon Bolton

“At home, my mother had known how to suffocate my dad's anger by growing silent, a low, unwavering flame of contempt that sucked all…

— Donna Tartt