Marriage Quote by Gary Shteyngart

“She wanted to punch her father in his snout, but she wouldn’t. He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite…

— G.A. Aiken

“She said, 'There's no mystery to keeping a man.' She dabbed at my lipstick with a tissue she had been holding, folded, in the…

— Roxane Gay

“And what's a-trouble to you, Jackie?" "Father," I said, feeling I might as well get it over while I had him in good humour,…

— Frank O'Connor

“A few days after I’d had my shoelace meltdown, after many tears, I found myself drained of emotion, a hollowed-out shell. My mother saw…

— Noah Galloway

“My father used to say women yapped too much, that some women would be better off not talking at all. So I’d grown up…

— Lisa Ko

“Naturally, I knew what to expect when my father got home. I had a lot of time to think about it, but all I…

— Charles Brandt

“That waitress was flirting with me," Dad announced once we were out of the restaurant. He said it in his "whispering voice," which meant…

— Leila Sales

“My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way. I’d begun…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

“And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long battle with…

— Barack Obama

“I made him solemnly swear he would leave the fish alone. He swore “on my mother’s life” that he would. His mother has been…

— Hendrik Groen

“In Florida, her father had once said at dinner: "I like Negroes, yessir. I think everyone should own one". She had stormed from the…

— Colum McCann

“My father's hand found the door locked. His calls to my mother went unanswered. He beat with his fists and called out her name,…

— Niall Williams