Parenting Quote by Jardine Libaire

“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

“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

“His father had told him time and again never to underestimate the power of something that could kill you.”

— C.J. Hill

“But my father could be dark too. He was attracted to violence, to the basic beauty of fighting, the way it turned his body…

— Jesmyn Ward

“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

“…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the world hurt…

— Paul Auster

“It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.”

— Michelle Magorian

“The shadows outside tamed none of him. No, they cast him as stronger and more dangerous than ever before. He was bigger. Hungrier. Predatory.…

— Kendall Grey

“You wouldn’t know what it’s like to grow up privileged and powerful. It’s intoxicating. Watching how people defer to you, and to your parents.…

— Robert Bryndza

“I suppose I ought to describe my father, but it isn't easy. Sometimes over the years he seemed one thing and sometimes another. He…

— Edith Konecky

“He felt powerful, and nothing was more important than power”

— C.J. Roberts

“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