Childish Quote by William Landay

“Abruptly, they seemed alike to me and equally dear: my father, my son. I felt as though my father had been waiting for this…

— Sue Miller

“I felt something I had never felt before, a mixture of fear and pride. I liked it. This was fatherhood. The biggest mistake anyone…

— Carl-John X Veraja

“She loved our dad in the inexplicable way that young women sometimes idolize men who greet their affection with casual indifference.”

— Daiva Markelis

“I felt as if I had gotten to the point where I could no longer trust myself. I was not the same person any…

— Benjamin Jones

“So it stood to reason that if I could disappoint my own father—if I couldn’t get my own father to love me enough to…

— Carrie Fisher

“I was young enough to think that insecurity disappeared with maturity.”

— Amanda Knox

“He had known it often enough. A delightful child, even a delightful early adolescent, interested in everything, alive,affectionate, would turn into a thick, heavy,…

— Patrick O'Brian

“Nor was he around when I finally understood that having a loving and nurturing father made a lifetime of difference. Only after I saw…

— Gloria Steinem

“Women found old men amusing, I guessed. At my age, I had learned to discern passing amusement from any woman’s true romantic interest in…

— H.T. Night

“...it occurred to me that I was stuck somewhere in between, with neither the blind confidence of youth that everything would turn out as…

— Neve Maslakovic

“My father’s absence was an unspoken void that lived within our walls, and although I longed for the day I, too, would fall in…

— Jennifer Murgia

“But in that one little window of time, many lasting decisions were made. First, any love for my father that might have remained either…

— Douglas Coupland