Lives of others Quote by Fiona Mozley

“Father's world was unsparing. Nothing good came free, even love. You paid for all things, and if you were poor, suffering was your currency.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“Money, or the lack of it, haunted him. Oh, not because he had so little. He was, in fact, very wealthy. It was the…

— Karen Hawkins

“was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat…

— Veronica Roth

“Eventually, I reached the other side of the chasm and understood the differences between the two men. I no longer hated Daddy: he had…

— Wally Lamb

“Hold on a minute, I thought to myself, there is something really, really wrong here. That he would have me followed and allow me…

— Ron Miscavige

“Even now, I found it difficult to believe that my father could or might be dying. He had always been a strong man, a…

— Ann Marston

“When we were lying helpless on the floor, he saw us. When we were crying from breathing the toxic air of this world, he…

— Gerrit Dawson

“He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of…

— David Louden

“He had suddenly the clearest understanding he had ever had of the way his father had gone so wrong. A man's strength was supposed…

— Laura Florand

“$1,200, That was the price of a man in those days. Now you can call him black, or you can call him a slave,…

— Jay Grewal

“Now he felt the despair his father had felt as the familiar world slipped from around him, the valleys gashed and ugly, the woods…

— Rohinton Mistry

“She stood by the bed and stroked her father's hand, knowing how desperately afraid he must feel at this moment. He'd always prided himself…

— Hillary Jordan