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 Bella Forrest
No. In my eyes, she was most beautiful because at a time when she had every right to be terrified, she managed to show comfort to another person who needed it.
Because I don’t believe that you are a slave to what you’ve become. I don’t believe that you simply can’t.
I love you, Sofia, ” I whispered. “And I honestly believe that I could never love another woman for the rest of my life. For the first time in the past five hundred years, I am sincerely thankful for my immortality, because without it, I...
Derek’s. Lucas’. Ben’s. It’s beyond me what I must do to make them realize that I’m neither object nor possession. I don’t belong to any of them.
After all, it seemed far nobler to give up one’s life to the light than to the dark.
