Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.
I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges, I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother with a few light books at her hipstanding at the pillar...
-
Sharon Olds
Each one of us has hated his or her parents at some point in early life … how quickly we turn around our feelings determines our extent of success.
-
Sandeep Sahajpal
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...
-
Jeffrey Eugenides
I’d never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.
-
Ottessa Moshfegh
No matter how long it’s been or how far you’ve drifted, no matter how unknowable you might be, there were at least two people in the world whose job it was to see you, to find you, to recognize you and reel you back in....
-
Jennifer E. Smith
More Quotes By Christopher Moore
Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.
Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
People, generally, suck.
If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
