In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow - and grow, maybe, to hate us, for keeping you from your fate.
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...
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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.
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Sandeep Sahajpal
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...
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Jeffrey Eugenides
I’d never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.
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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....
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Jennifer E. Smith
More Quotes By Sarah Waters
One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me before the life was ended, the doctor drew the poison from my stomach with a syringe, and when I woke, it was to the sound...
She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the...
Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?
Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune.
I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart–so hard, it hurt me.
