Annoyance Quote by Marcel Proust

“Many parents had grown wary of confronting their children for fear of being denounced by them, but not my father.”

— Martha Hall Kelly

“There has always been a sliver of panic in him, deeply buried, when it comes to his daughter: a fear that he is no…

— Anthony Doerr

“(Note: Extreme sensibility of the French sometimes makes them difficult to deal with.)”

— E.M. Delafield

“Motherhood for her had always been a conflict between proper concern and far too much worry.”

— Stuart Nadler

“I went on to spend an inordinate amount of my childhood bashfully attached to my mother's pelvis, mostly out of social anxiety, but also…

— Matt Bellassai

“Somehow if she'd know the worst parts, she couldn't have gone on being a haven for him...Men said they didn't tell their women about…

— Pat Barker

“That night I experienced one of those sudden, unpleasant shifts of perception that occur to parents, when you notice a difference in your child…

— Dorothy Johnston

“father had obviously been feeling particularly unsympathetic toward his wayward”

— Leigh Michaels

“Whenever his father’s eyes were on him, he became uncomfortably aware of all his deformities and shortcomings.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Yet the French have managed to be involved without becoming obsessive. They assume that even good parents aren't at the constant service of their…

— Pamela Druckerman

“was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat…

— Veronica Roth

“Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than…

— Caroline Moorehead