We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a...
Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.
{24/7} once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and...
In fact, he couldn't be that kind of dad anymore. That time was over. It was as if God would suddenly decide to be God again several quadrillion years after he created the world. He could not only dip...
You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all...
the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag...