Quote by Melina Marchetta

“admit it to her dad, who would just take what she said at face value, rather than her mother, who would listen too intently…

— Liane Moriarty

“She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much…

— Ann Patchett

“So I told her what she'd done to my father was beautiful. And you know what's messed up? It was sort of beautiful. In…

— Chris Howard

“What's going on? Not much. My mother's falling to pieces, my sister is a selfish bitch and my father's committing slow suicide for sake…

— Karen Miller

“It's like she looks at me and only sees what she wants to see. My father looks at me and sees only what he…

— Heather Henson

“She feels closer than ever to her father in this moment of utter broken rage.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.”

— Steven Herrick

“Unlike Dad, she'd always known just the right things to say, and her words felt like bandages or spurs or even ledges, instead of…

— Courtney Alameda

“I disagree.” She squeezed lovingly. “Your dad has always supported you. All of this negativity, this pent-up aggression and self-loathing—” “I hardly loathe myself.…

— Darynda Jones

“Nothing was right with her parents gone, no matter how much she'd tried to go on without them.”

— Caragh M. O'Brien

“she hated everything her parents loved”

— Stephen Chbosky

“I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.”

— Anne Frank