Parenting Quote by Steven Herrick

“I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside you.” quote by Steven Herrick — Download Open image

““I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside you.””

Steven Herrick

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I'm drinking away the exam results that don't take me anywhere.

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I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

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

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“Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures.”

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“It was a good apple too. A good apple, picked by a madman on a full moon night.”

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Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

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“I'm dreaming of a month of Sundays.”

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“Bloody rain” says Mr Chivers Bouncing a basketball On the one dry patch of court bloody rain” he nods to our Sports class And gives us the afternoon off. Bloody rain all right As Annabel and I run to Megalong Creek hut Faster than we ever have in Chivers’s class And the exercise we have in mind We’ve been training…

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“I'm glad she left me the kids. I'd be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I'm only bitter.”

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“I'm thinking about babies. Emma's baby. Jack and my baby. Growing in my mind, if not in my womb.”

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“She didn't have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions.”

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“I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go.”

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