Parenting Quote by Ruta Sepetys

“Willie said fathers were overrated, that my father could be one of thousands, most likely some rotten crotch creep that loved clip-on ties. She…

— Ruta Sepetys

“Riding back from the grocery store, I realized my father was two men—one he presented to the outside world, and one, far darker, that…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get away on…

— Alan Bradley

“...some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a…

— Brenda Novak

“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

“The stray thought occurred to him that if it weren’t for women, in all their cloaks of unfathomed mysteries, men would lead very boring…

— Eliza Maxwell

“It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“there was a battered desk with its drawers open and askew, like a lady of the night with her heels kicked off and pantyhose…

— Jen Frederick

“When we were leaving London, Dad spent about an hour trying to push his wardrobe through the bedroom door. He turned it on its…

— Annabel Pitcher

“Each night Father fills me with dread When he sits on the foot of my bed; I'd not mind that he speaks In gibbers…

— Edward Gorey

“I’d never be more than a toy to him, and the men in his family had a history of breaking their toys. They just…

— Joanna Wylde

“Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one…

— T.A. Grey