Gloucester Quote by John Ciardi

“It was the winter after Mother died, and Mrs. Corbett and some of the Brother's wives came to call. They kept bleating on about…

— Jessica Spotswood

“When I started school, I began to see less of her. More and more, I noticed my father encouraging me to spend time with…

— Bella Forrest

“My parents were at a total loss. I was going nowhere and I was irritable and hostile.”

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“Your parents were far from saints, Alice. It would be generous to say they were ordinary people who made some very serious mistakes. Don't…

— Tracy Guzeman

“Hazel should have done something—left a note, pretended she was going to go visit Jack’s aunt Bernice. Something. She was so busy thinking about…

— Anne Ursu

“I have looked at my father many times and wondered how he could stand knowing he was my mother’s ruin. He was too weak…

— Ayana Mathis

“Things happened in the neighborhood, yes, and there were kids she knew who got caught up, but there were others, too, who had taken…

— Naima Coster

“As someone who had faced the harsh reality of her parents' divorce and experienced the fallout from that situation,”

— Joe Allan

“whatever her own parents did or didn’t do was nothing short of heroic and”

— Donia Bijan

“It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn’t matter how loud she screamed or…

— Daniel Abraham

“I told her my father was a retired janitor who liked to go fishing. She told me her father was a podiatrist who liked…

— Gary Shteyngart

“The fact was that the woman lived the life she chose, she was happy in that life and it was no one's business after…

— Joyce Carol Oates