Parenting Quote by George R.R. Martin

“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but now he saw…

— William Somerset Maugham

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather

“Yet whenever he thought of himself as a dull, deluded opportunist, compared with other people, he always remembered the intensity of his own feelings…

— John P. Marquand

“His eyes were sharp but kind, and it seemed to amuse him to see children misbehave when he knew that deep down they didn't…

— Phyllis Theroux

“His eyes had something dull about them, expressionless, the bored look of a mediocre intelligence that wrongly supposes it has “seen it all before.”

— Herman Koch

“He maintained his new fastidiousness without interruption, added to it an unwonted sparkle of eye and crispness of speech, and began little by little…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no he saw…

— W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham

“His stride was long, tall, and proud. He wore a mask of proprietary disinterest, as though everything before his eyes belonged to him and…

— S.G. Night

“father had obviously been feeling particularly unsympathetic toward his wayward”

— Leigh Michaels

“Sometimes the greed and malice of what he sees appalls him so much he thinks he must’ve misunderstood; he looks again, and it’s worse…

— Sarah Perry

“He remembers noticing his dad's shadow was shorter than the others, and he had a visceral sense his father was weaker than the rest,…

— Jardine Libaire

“He was the measure of the failure of his father's body, and also perhaps a portending of the failure of his own.~”

— Marilynne Robinson