“I write about you all the time, I said aloud. Every time I say I , it refers to you.”
“Still, it was hard to have parents who lived inside you, when all you really wanted was for them to come back, and hug you.”
“The best you can do is not be too strict and also, don’t be too lenient. Be like parents who adopt different ways to handle different situations so as to receive the right response from their kids.”
“We all know a boy can t daddy until his daddy s dead.”
“I’m afraid of not unlearning the bad things my parents taught me.”
“As well as being highly critical of everything Nora did, and everything Nora wanted and everything Nora believed, unless it was related to swimming, Nora had also felt that simply to be in his presence was to commit some kind of invisible crime.”
“Pray for your parents.”