Parenting Quote by Hala Alyan

“On the outside, I’m the perfect kid–like a statue of perfect marble, serene and unreal. Inside, it’s all snakes and maggots and broken glass.”

— Cal Armistead

“They had no children. They spent money on the house, and for five years it went through an elaborate series of new looks each…

— Niall Williams

“This place was just a pile of old stones. Pretty stones arranged in intriguing ways, but just old stones. “And outdated wiring,” her father…

— Magnus Flyte

“It is wonderful barefoot in New York. It is like walking on one big giant tomb!”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Three stones for the faces of the mother, four bones ... for whatever reason the charlatans came up with that I can't be bothered…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.”

— Michael Cunningham

“Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were…

— Christopher Pike

“She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

“It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents' lives before I was born.”

— Robert Drewe

“Get the parents out of the way and then something interesting can happen.”

— Rick Riordan

“It is only glass, you know. Nothing fine or grand.Your Mother knew it, when she accepted it with my hand.And she knew I danced…

— Heather Dixon

“And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over…

— Sue Monk Kidd