There were a few other moves of his father's he could do without as well - the sucker punches, the ruffling of the hair, the way of pronouncing the word son, in a slightly deeper voice. This hearty way of talking was getting worse, as if his father were auditioning for the role of Dad, but without much hope. Margaret Atwood
Some Similar Quotes
  1. He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father. - Jonathan Safran Foer
  2. He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke. - Cormac McCarthy
  3. Your father is the only God. You can also become god but you must follow a simple rule and let that rule be made up of love. - Santosh Kalwar
  4. Ah God! What a loving father you are! - Lailah Gifty Akita
  5. God is my spiritual Father. - Lailah Gifty Akita
More Quotes By Margaret Atwood
  1. I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
  2. Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed...
  3. How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
  4. A truth should exist, it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?
  5. Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.
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