Disappointment Quote by Louisa May Alcott

“I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy. And it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight…

— Louisa May Alcott

“I no longer possessed the luxury of falling in love. If something should happen to Papa, I would lose the legacy and be left…

— Debra Borchert

“The whole time I was growing up...living in this house...Papa was like a shadow that followed you everywhere. ...It would wrap around you and…

— August Wilson

“I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thing…

— Tucker Elliot

“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

“Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the closet and…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

“Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal…

— A. H. Septimius

“Sometimes we'd sit on that bench for hours, talking about nothing much and blowing smoke rings into the air, and we'd see them teetering…

— Máire T. Robinson

“We were eight children in our family, the first four were all girls, I was the oldest. Papa once came home from work and…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“In all the photos I see the boy I once knew and the man he became, a flawed but decent man whom I grew…

— Elizabeth Stone

“I’m not a nice young woman anymore. I’ve been loved. I’ve given my heart up and gotten something in return. I’m pregnant.”

— Ella James

“I was alone alright. And life surely had been a hard trial for me, so far. From the time mama and Katie fell sick,…

— Dan Gemeinhart