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  1. Stormie Omartian _ The Power of a Praying Parent

    If you're being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God's hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth!
    book-quoteguilttruthgod

  2. Michael Chabon _ Manhood for Amateurs

    {My dad} didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't make my breakfast, lunch, or dinner. My mom did all of those things, and nobody ever told her when she did them that it made her a good mother.
    book-quotemotherparentingparent

  3. Chuck Palahniuk _ Snuff

    No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life."
    book-quotechildrenparentsrelationship

  4. Chuck Palahniuk _ Snuff

    Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
    book-quotechildrenparentsparent

  5. Chuck Palahniuk _ Snuff

    Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.
    book-quotemotherfatherparent

  6. Khaled Hosseini _ And the Mountains Echoed

    She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me.
    book-quoteparent

  7. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    I have a little boy at home,A pretty little son;I think sometimes the world is mineIn him, my only one. . . 'Ere dawn my labor drives me forth;Tis night when I am free;A stranger am I to my child;And stranger my child to me. . . .
    book-quotepoemparent

  8. Rebecca McNutt _ Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog

    Mandy, I hardly think this was appropriate, not after… you know… after the funeral we haven't had the money for any of your weird little games and I was hoping you'd be more mature now that Jud's gone," her father had disappointedly added. "How much'd that cake cost you?" "It's paid for," Mandy had argued, but her voice had sounded tiny in the harbour wind. "I used the cash from my summer job at Frenchy's last year and I… it was my birthday, dad!" "You can't even be normal about this one thing, can you?" her father had complained. Mandy hadn't cried, she'd only stared back knowingly, her voice shaky. "…I'm normal.
    book-quotegriefmoneyloss

  9. Jodi Picoult _ Handle with Care

    Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
    book-quotelifeparentwitness

  10. Jodi Picoult _ Vanishing Acts

    When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.
    book-quoteparent

  11. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.
    book-quoteparent

  12. Jodi Picoult _ Handle with Care

    Other people look at me and think: But all I see when I look at you is that girl who had memorized all the words to Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by the time she was three, the girl who crawls into bed with me whenever there's a thunderstorm - not because you're afraid but because am, the girl whose laugh has always vibrated inside my own body like a tuning fork. I would never have wished for an able-bodied child, because that child would have been someone who wasn't you.
    book-quoteparentmotherly-love
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