I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
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Martha Gellhorn
I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.
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Mark Slouka
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that...
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Christopher Hitchens
How to raise sons who respect women: Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect yourself.
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Alfa H
You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
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Marilynne Robinson
More Quotes By Markus Zusak
The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children
She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit...
If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
