Childhood Quote by David Foster Wallace

“The horror came as I realized that, for what he had done, the child in me was right to blame him entirely, and the…

— Rebecca Coleman

“He couldn’t imagine what had made his father so angry or the townspeople so mean, but he knew with a child’s sudden, clear conviction…

— Lynn Flewelling

“He'd had bad, bad thoughts about this girl. Never, ever before in his fucking life had he had thoughts like he'd had about her.…

— Lynda Chance

“Hal...cleared his throat."…Doing the hard stuff's what makes it an adventure.”

— Stephanie S. Tolan

“Yeah, parents will always fuck you up.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“You might not realize it now, kid, but everyone is some shade of fucked-up.”

— Riley Hart

“I was fucked-up in some essential way that other people could see, but I couldn’t.”

— Jane Devin

“He clearly suffers from some past traumas too, so hopefully he'll understand why I was untruthful to him about mine.”

— Zack Love

“That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.”

— J.X. Burros

“This was why men didn’t get into meaningful conversations. They never ended until the guy somehow got blamed for everything.”

— Marsha Cornelius

“Actually, if this were a movie, you’d be a beautiful woman and you’d be sleeping with HAL by the second act.”

— Jane Seville

“He believed that kids who’d been slammed around needed to stick together, from start to finish. And he spotted others of his kind so…

— S.E. Jakes