Parenting Quote by Umberto Eco

“My father passed on. This particular pain and loss was so deep I thought I would lose my mind.”

— Carol Wambui Ngabura

“...it stung, too, knowing that it was easier for his father to erase his only son's existence than it was for him to tolerate…

— Libba Bray

“Even now, I found it difficult to believe that my father could or might be dying. He had always been a strong man, a…

— Ann Marston

“What, exactly, is a father if not a man who, once you’re grown and gone and out in the world making your own mistakes,…

— Julia Glass

“He could see now that asking the dead about his father was nearly useless, so burdened were they with their own losses and regrets…

— Ari Berk

“Losing a parent was difficult; when her father had died, she had thought she’d never get over it. The pain had been like a…

— Victoria Jenkins

“There were no wracking sobs today, not like that day at the depot when he'd finally set free so many years of furrowed hurt.…

— Melissa Tagg

“What he didn't know was that he always would and that in all those important moments that were yet to come to pass in…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

“Father knew he might die that day, and he went anyway.”

— Catherine Jones Payne

“He had a daddy, but he’d never get to know his father, and the knowledge of that pained me every day.”

— Isabella Starling

“Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I'll…

— Harper Lee

“How could a father wish you were dead, when he himself already died.”

— JohnEgreek