Blood Quote by Yiyun Li

The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to…

— Charles Baudelaire

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must…

— George MacDonald

When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself…

— Paul Auster

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

— Margaret Fuller

The child will be the father of the man surely

— James Donkor

The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old…

— Anais Nin

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

— Arthur Helps

“Now the son whose father's existance in this world is historical and speculative even before the son has entered it in a bad way.…

— Cormac McCarthy

“A son who will never be older than his motherland - neither older nor younger. There shall be two heads – but you will…

— Salman Rushdie

The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

— Jacob Bronowski

Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone? Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own? Who will…

— Antwone Fisher

Now the son's disgraced he, who knew his father

— Kevin Rudolf