#par

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken. ↗

— Justine Larbalestier

#human-nature #intergenerational-relations #parents #nature

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#english #inadequacy-of-words #language #lose #loss

Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slit somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#parenting

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in... ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#world #parenting

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#father #mother #palahniuk #parent #snuff

Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#parenting

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#fundamentalism #religion #secularism #separation-of-church-and-state #united-states

I honestly never once heard them fight. They yelled at us kids all the time, but never at each other. My siblings and I joke to this day about how the reason we have trouble in relationships is because we never learned how to fight from our parents. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#parents-and-children #relationships #relationship

It’s complicated. He’s not…' Human? 'He’s playing hard to get. ↗

— Nicki Elson

#humor #paranormal-romance #relationship

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. No matter what. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#relationship #relationship