Parenting Quote by Jess Walter

“He was confronted at an early age with adult-strength realizations about powerlessness, desperation, and distrust, taking his dose right alongside the overwhelmed adults. This…

— Ron Suskind

The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was... was a failure of acceptance…

— J.R. Ward

“He, unfortunately for himself, had been beautifully brought up. His teacher had educated him as the child is educated in the womb, where it…

— T.H. White

“Buried feelings of anger and vengeance washed over him as he thought back to the time he discovered who his real father was and…

— Angel Sefer

“The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.”

— Claire Cook

“You know now how deeply unhappy your mother was, and you also know that in his own fumbling way your father loved her, that…

— Paul Auster

“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

“He wasn’t an immature boy having conjured up an image of a perfect relationship. He was a grown man ready to accept responsibility for…

— Konstantina P

“In this little room full of people he was suffering the pangs of men whose egos lose their virginity—as happens when they overhear for…

— Tom Wolfe

The sense that in his mother’s view, he had let down his family just by being who he was… was a failure of acceptance…

— J.R. Ward

“Appearing as a character in my brother’s books taught me something about myself. For most of my life, my history as an abused child…

— John Elder Robison

“A young man fools himself into believing he no longer needs to be held in his mother's arms or to hear the gruff approval…

— Anonymous