Parenting Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“We realized that the version of the world [our parents] rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“It was a true conversation. About whether our ancestors had more important lives than we do. And how they've managed to trick us, if…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat…

— Jill McCorkle

“And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“They were a bit shaken, and sometimes a little dispirited. But at least they never lived to know that everything they’d believed in was…

— George Orwell

“It was at this time I learned that the human mind is a blackened overgrown place. Society tries to mow the lawn and trim…

— Marisha Pessl

“Life was full for me. There were so many things to find out and a lot I had to prove to myself. The days…

— James Herriot

“There were other things too, something resembling soggy cotton balls, and something else, like clumps of tangled hair, and all of that inhabited the…

— Mariam Petrosyan

“The air smelled of salt and sand and fish. As though all was peace, and harvesttime, and autumn nights. Not the end of everything.”

— Julie Berry

“The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.”

— Jack Kerouac

“I know of nothing uglier or more saddening than a machine-flailed hedge. It speaks of the disdain of nature and craft that still dominates…

— Roger Deakin

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien