Disowning Quote by Libba Bray

“I felt something I had never felt before, a mixture of fear and pride. I liked it. This was fatherhood. The biggest mistake anyone…

— Carl-John X Veraja

“But he'd never pictured himself as a father and had had no idea that there was an emotion that was a combination of pride,…

— Erin Nicholas

“She wondered how to mourn the death of a son who wasn't dead. And yet the loss of separation made that easy. The idea…

— Juliet Castle

“And I kind of realized that his pain is real or whatever, but his pain isn’t over the loss of me as an individual.…

— L.T. Vargus

“But in that one little window of time, many lasting decisions were made. First, any love for my father that might have remained either…

— Douglas Coupland

“He could see now that asking the dead about his father was nearly useless, so burdened were they with their own losses and regrets…

— Ari Berk

“No he hadn't been the best father, but he was my father, and we loved each other. We needed each other. Though he'd disappointed…

— Liz Murray

“Abruptly, they seemed alike to me and equally dear: my father, my son. I felt as though my father had been waiting for this…

— Sue Miller

“Once inside, I stirred the banked coals of the brazier to sullen life. It did nothing to ease the chill that gripped my bones.…

— Lesley Livingston

“They did not set out to disappoint their father, not on purpose, but neither did they wish to shoulder the lumpy, enervating burden of…

— Margaret Atwood

“And then, again, I was undergoing with my father what the very young inevitability undergo with their elders: I was beginning to judge him.…

— James Baldwin

“During that time, the world seemed completely unforgiving. I was a single father at age twenty-six, divorced after a meaningless marriage that had lasted…

— Masaji Ishikawa