Father figure Quote by Nick Hornby

“Nicola had to move closer to Marcus, had to take his hands in hers and hold them over her heart as though she could…

— Bella Andre

“What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.”

— Roald Dahl

“Tristan the child had been gone for a long time. He had gone where children go, slipped away into manhood as if he’d never…

— Lise McClendon

“I don't know if Marcus knows how important that moment was to me. How much he actually saved me from myself, from absolute despair.…

— Cecelia Ahern

“,,There comes a time when a mother needs to let go. Do you think I liked seeing you torture yourself when you didn't need…

— J.S. Scott

“He wasn’t an immature boy having conjured up an image of a perfect relationship. He was a grown man ready to accept responsibility for…

— Konstantina P

“Marcus succumbed in weakness to Stella's demands and surrendered to her desires, since her mother left he'd tried to appease and please her with…

— Jill Thrussell

“That was the kind of life she’d had as a child, and it was the kind she wanted as an adult. But it hadn’t…

— Nicholas Sparks

“From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their…

— Caroline Pratt

“Owen knew about me, and the abilities the women in my family possessed. But he wasn’t a father and wouldn’t understand”

— Kerry Lonsdale

“He turned and looked at the boy. Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien. A…

— Cormac McCarthy

“What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected…

— John Hubner