Quotes about father
father grief
Grief, it seemed, was a physical place. Kim Edwards
father fall
It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.
father two love-for-her
His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.
father eggs world
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
father airplane thinking
He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.
father responsibility perfect
Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.
father heart mystery
No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.
father eerie news
There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.
father knowing feelings
The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine to know, is it?
father might different
A moment might be a thousand different things.
father moving exotic
She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.
father years alchemist
A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.
father heart thinking
He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his palm, thinking of all mysteries the world contained: layers of stone, concealed beneath the flesh of earth and grass; these dull rocks, with their glimmering hidden hearts.
father silly heart
In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.
father somewhere-else new-life
So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.
father grows dies
Either things grow and change or they die.
father fall light
Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained.
father world pulse
Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.
father party sadness
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.
father saws ordinary
But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.
father twins excitement
Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.
father blood hands
He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone.
father heartache joy
You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.
father
He had never even glimpsed her.
father believe expression
Pierce jerked his hand from Trent and pushed himself straight. “Kalamack Industries,” he said, expression twisted as he wiped his hand on his pants. “I knew your father.” “I do not freaking believe this,” I said, shifting to stand where I could see both of them. Al beamed. “Amazing who you can meet in an elevator. Kim Harrison
father odds feelings
He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.
father men few-words
My father was a man of few words. Ken Venturi
father excuse said
My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.
father taught talent
My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'
father men wife
When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment. Kazuo Ishiguro
father lost race
As my father once said when he lost a governor's race in New Jersey: 'We were nosed out by a landslide,' Steve Forbes
father looked question
Absolutely. No question about that ... He looked upon Father Geoghan as a prize.
father heart sleep
My conscience does not render a positive verdict in God’s courtroom when I look inside myself. The only reason I can sleep well at night is that even though my heart is filled with corruption and even though I am not doing my best to please him, I have in heaven at the Father’s right hand the beloved Son, who has not only done his best for himself but has fulfilled all righteousness for me in my place. Michael Horton