Actually Quote by Nick Flynn

There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as…

— Peter Coyote

The first time I saw my father, he was chained. Gone was the mirage of the invincible man, the man who would protect me…

— Michael Tubbs

I lost my father when I was 19, so the majority of my life has been under this cloud, and I have been full…

— Hisham Matar

Even though I lost my dad in just a tragic, sudden way, there are so many more stories that are so much worse.

— Cole Swindell

After my father died, we began to live. He was psychotic. He really was terrifying.

— Terence Davies

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could…

— Monica Seles

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was…

— Walter Mosley

Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married…

— Maureen Howard

My dad was dead, so these streets had to raise me.

— Ludacris

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed…

— Criss Angel

I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when I was…

— Gerard Butler