Father Quote by Erin Nicholas

“I felt something I had never felt before, a mixture of fear and pride. I liked it. This was fatherhood. The biggest mistake anyone…

— Carl-John X Veraja

“He had a daddy, but he’d never get to know his father, and the knowledge of that pained me every day.”

— Isabella Starling

“It was Mom whom I could not live without. Fathers, I was convinced, could not replicate the emotional security and nurturing that mothers provided.”

— Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

“He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of…

— Dean Koontz

“A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Nor was he around when I finally understood that having a loving and nurturing father made a lifetime of difference. Only after I saw…

— Gloria Steinem

“Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor.…

— William Styron

“...it stung, too, knowing that it was easier for his father to erase his only son's existence than it was for him to tolerate…

— Libba Bray

“He imagined this must be what fatherhood felt like, just without all the gross parts, and the aftercare, and most of the other parts…

— Bella Forrest

“[...] he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“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

“Father looked at her and she was beautiful in the way she had been as a girl. He did not realize the pleasure he…

— E.L. Doctorow