Esme skips on ahead. Jumping from one foot to the other, as if she can see markings on the ground he can’t. She is constantly jumping and skipping and twirling with the lightness of falling snow, looking up at him bright with questions, tugging on his hand, dashing off with all the speed her body is capable of and then skipping on the spot up ahead as if consecrating it for his arrival. It is so easy to make her happy that it seems like cheating at times. . Glenn Haybittle
A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him...
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Bill Mauldin
It takes a society to raise a generation.
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David Berman
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It’s everything. (Confessions of a Scary Mommy, Gallery Books 2012).
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Jill Smokler
In parenting patience is the greatest virtue.
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Abhijit Naskar
Console the failure, but nurture the hunger.
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Bryan Cranston
More Quotes By Glenn Haybittle
She is a wiry blanched creature with no beauty. Her expression reminds him of a crumpled letter — there is both sadness and anger in it.
He likes to think of himself as someone who can give quick clever answers to awkward questions. It is an important part of his self-esteem.
Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far-fetched conspiracy of circumstances which have to occur in order for us to get born.
