Parenting Quote by Justin Evans

“He thought other resourceful people would have come, over the years, to look at it, and that the house would wear its own mild…

— Alan Hollinghurst

“Before I fell asleep, eventually, was thinking when I was a small kid how I'd try to imagine the end of the century and…

— Don DeLillo

“What went on in that head of his? I would soon come to understand that he gave voice to only a fraction of the…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“A grandfather clause, I thought. And what place was more fitted for one than an old-age home?”

— Stephen King

“And for the last ten or so years of my life, whenever my father was in the house, I've learned how to make myself…

— Jessica Brody

“There is hardly anything at all. His life is suddenly a large, empty house, with each vacant room waiting to be furnished. His made-up…

— Dan Chaon

“I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of…

— Harriet A. Jacobs

“The whole house, its very walls, was impregnated with a smell of vitality that he was unused to. He thought about his own apartment,…

— Paolo Giordano

“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman…

— Charles Palliser

“For the next thirteen-plus hours, I stared out the window at the passing towns and countryside. All those lives. All those untold stories and…

— Kate Klise

“Unlike a lot of men of his generation, my dad thought of being with his family as his priority; work was secondary. I”

— Chesley B. Sullenberger

“I lived in an enclave in which our oldest had seen twenty-five years. His face was withered, and his fingers shook when he attempted…

— Ann Aguirre