Contemporary fiction Quote by Slava Pilotoff

“Sometimes I think my father has all these scars. On his heart. In his head. All over. It’s not such an easy thing to…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the…

— Mark Slouka

“You get married to have an ally against your family, and now I'm heading into the trenches alone.”

— Jonathan Tropper

“I was crying on the inside, but on the outside, to the casual observer, and to the man who was dying, I was laughing.…

— Jarod Kintz

“My mother died halfway when they shot my father. Then almost halfway more, after what the soldiers did to her. Today was the last…

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“This was another pretend, and here in a yard on a bench was his real wife, with sad, kind, tired eyes. The lesson of…

— Joshilyn Jackson

“He's your father, but first he is a man. A man is just a man, and that's all we have to wok with.”

— Tayari Jones

“there was one thing left to do: ask the only person I knew who was married, always honest with me, and never mocked my…

— Justin Halpern

“When death comes, she said, all that matters is this: to be next to one another. My mother was wearing a silk dress, and…

— Hannah Tinti

“I feel emotionally conflicted. It's like when your mother in-law drives off a cliff in your new Porsche.”

— Anonymous

“Granny looked up at the zombie. He was - or, technically, had been - a tall, handsome man. He still was, only now he…

— Terry Pratchett

“You really don’t like your father, do you?” He glowered. “Let’s just say he would have eaten me if my mother hadn’t been nearly…

— Dave Ferraro