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  1. Stormie Omartian _ The Power of a Praying Parent

    As you pray for your children, you will find it to be an unending habit of your heart. Being able to positively affect your children in prayer will keep you in close contact with them and actively involved in their lives, even after they leave home. And it will continually contribute to your joy as a parent!
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  2. Jude Watson _ In Too Deep

    When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.
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  3. George Bernard Shaw _ Heartbreak House

    The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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  4. Irvin D. Yalom _ Creatures of a Day: And Other

    Cand ne mor parintii, ne simtim intodeauna vulnerabili, pentru ca nu ne confruntam doar cu o pierdere, ci si cu propria moarte. Cand devenim orfani, intre noi si mormant nu mai sta nimeni.
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  5. Markus Zusak _ Bridge of Clay

    There was the odd suburban thunderbolt, but they were mostly those people who'd found each other; they were golden and bright-lit and funny. Often they seemed in cahoots somehow, like jailbirds who wouldn't leave; they loved us, they us, and that was a pretty good trick.
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  6. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ The Beautiful Struggle: A

    My parents were two-faced. To me, they showed no mercy. They preached from theBook of Fallen Children - Commandment 1: The Child Is Always Ungrateful. At eighteen, the free ride would stop, and I'd be dumped into the mess of the world. But in their private moments, they were soft, cowed by love. They critiqued their own parenting skills and thought of all the ways the could help their kids get ahead.
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  7. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me

    Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.
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  8. James Baldwin _ Notes of a Native Son

    It seems to be typical of life in America, where opportunities, real and fancied, are thicker than anywhere else on the globe, that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.
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  9. Colson Whitehead _ The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef

    Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.
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  10. Laurie Halse Anderson _ The Impossible Knife of Memory

    That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn {165}
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  11. Laurie Halse Anderson _ Fever 1793

    No. Absolutely not. I forbid it. You'll have nightmares." "She was my friend! You must allow me. Why are you so horrid?" As soon as the angry words were out of my mouth, I knew I had gone too far. "Matilda!" Mother rose from her chair. "You are forbidden to pseak to me in that tone! Apologize at once.
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  12. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    She is like a mathematical equation, always there and impossible to disprove.
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