Parenting Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“We're only given one life, and it's the one we live, she thought; how painful now, to realize that wasn't true, that you would…

— Samuel Park

“How could I have ever thought she was what was wrong in my life? She was the only thing that made any sense, and…

— ella frank

“It's frightening, she thinks, how when the going gets rough you fall back on whatever awful think you grew up with.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The sting of her abandonment had not lessened through the years, and I suspected it would never go away. Occasionally, I could see agony…

— T.J. Forrester

“Driven by my own childhood, I had to be sure you wanted for nothing. You were to feel so loved, safe, and secure that…

— D.G. Torrens

“At seventeen, I knew: my entire childhood had been just a prelude to this girl. I had never felt anything like it, and still…

— William Landay

“What if she did get hurt? It wouldn’t be the first time and it probably wouldn’t be the last. Life hurt. That’s how you…

— Lori Wilde

“The first time I saw her had been an accident. I was racing through the woods, attempting to run away from what I am,…

— Cambria Hebert

“As usual in the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock along just…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might…

— Kimberley Freeman

“...and she thought she understood, for the first time, the strange and terrible power a parent has over a child's happiness, and also how…

— Meg Mitchell Moore