Father Quote by Christopher Moore

“Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“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

“We cried. The bones and dust of our fathers cried with us.”

— Sharon Ewell Foster

“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

“Forgive me,’ he whispered. I held my father’s gaze. Sometimes he seemed to grow a little older just by looking at me and remembering.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“The sensation of impossible comfort only offered by a mother’s embrace.  The feeling he lost so very long ago.”

— N Felts

“Seeing my father behind a thick glass wall in an orange jumpsuit was hammering it home, that life as I knew it was about…

— Winter Travers

“There were no wracking sobs today, not like that day at the depot when he'd finally set free so many years of furrowed hurt.…

— Melissa Tagg

“Once inside, I stirred the banked coals of the brazier to sullen life. It did nothing to ease the chill that gripped my bones.…

— Lesley Livingston

“You know now how deeply unhappy your mother was, and you also know that in his own fumbling way your father loved her, that…

— Paul Auster

“I sobbed again, and this time my father chuckled. "What's so funny?" I demanded, tilting my head when my cheek got his coat wet.…

— Rachel Vincent

“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