#rent

His attitude, though always bad, has changed since he helped me prep the Pandora charm for Morgan. He thinks I'm falling for her, as ridiculous as that sounds, and he might be tempted to take matters into his hands. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#jonathan #quen #rachen-morgan #romance #the-hollows

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#parents-and-responsiblity #survival #treachery #respect

You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#parents #respect #respect

I've done many different movies in many different contexts. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#different #done #i #many #movies

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#break #comfort #comfort zone #comfortable #creative

Valentine!" "You mean father. I despise this modern habit of calling one's parents by their names." "What I want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name." - Clary Fray and Valentine Morgenstern (City of Ashes) ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #valentine-morgenstern #parenting

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#parenting

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#holden #parenting

I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#parenting #parenting

Could an Olympian parent turn against his half-blood child? Would it sometimes be easier just to let them die? If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie for Father's Day after all. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#thalia-grace #parenting