Parenting Quote by Dave Hill

“After twenty years in Canada, there are certain American lunatics who still fascinate me.”

— John Irving

“My mother was strong, in all the ways I was weak. She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble…

— Sarah Dessen

“resent her, or feel like she was so much smarter than them that it was annoying. She played field hockey well enough that”

— Katherine Howe

“Every Canadian winter was a mortal challenge to its habitants.”

— David Hackett Fischer

“O Canada I have not forgotten you, as I kneel in my canoe, beholding this vision of a bookcase. You are the paddle, the…

— Billy Collins

“I had wondered if all mothers shared a fear of how vibrant and alive their children were.”

— Alice Sebold

“My brain just…wandered off. Like an American hockey player in the finals against Canada at the Olympics.”

— Julia Kent

“By the time I rose and started walking again, I didn’t begrudge my mother a thing. The truth was, in spite of all that,…

— Cheryl Strayed

“I've got everything ready to go," I said once he was finally awake and dressed. All the tenderness and vulnerability was gone from his…

— Tammy Blackwell

“Every day there’s something which makes me think ‘I’d better ask Dad about that, I wonder what Mother would say…’ and then I remember,…

— Simon R. Green

“I argued with Mom that I should have slightly more than half of the suitcase, since without me and my cancer, we’d never be…

— John Green

“struck by the pain of the ice and the rage of the water below that was forced to make room for the huge piece…

— Garth Stein