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“My parents had lived in California, long ago, when they were twenty and twenty-two, also newly married. This distant knowledge romanced me like a whiff of honey, the sweet and mythic prehistory of my existence.”

Book:Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

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“Doing, doing, doing!’ cries the teenager. ‘Why do I have to do anything anyway?!’ Here, the adult is usually stuck for an answer. They know the usual answer, (you have to work to live) but the teen knows the reality… their parents are miserable from doing exactly this. Which is why, God has to come first... because that’s where freedom is.”

God Freedom Parenting Parents Teens Teenagers

Book:The Golden Prayer Devotional: Everything Belongs to God

Source: The Golden Prayer Devotional: Everything Belongs to God

“They were really nauseating at times, the way they were still so in love with each other.”

Love Parents

Book:Find You in the Dark

Source: Find You in the Dark

“One of these is a wish to please their parents and to be universally liked. A result of this is that they have not allowed themselves, or been allowed, to express feelings of anger or upset, nor have they felt that they have the voice to do so.”

Childhood Pressure Mental Health Parents

Book:Thin

Source: Thin

“When you realize your parents are human, that’s when you lose your innocence.”

Humanity Family Childhood Parents Innocence

Book:Hey Humanity

Source: Hey Humanity

“The girls weren't alone in this: the world is full of children picking up their parents' crumbs.”

Parents

Book:The Restless Girls

Source: The Restless Girls

“505 The first seminary, the first formation program, the first college is the Catholic family. No director, however talented or skilled, can replace parents. If this most fundamental unit breaks down, the future of the Church and of human society becomes shaky and risks collapse. On the day he turned fifty, Pope John XXIII wrote in a letter to his parents, “Dear Mom and Dad, today I have reached fifty years of age. God has given me many positions in the Church, I have been to many places, I have studied much, but no school has given me more instruction or has been more beneficial to me than that which I received when I sat on your laps.”

Family Parents

Book:The Road of Hope: A Gospel from Prison

Source: The Road of Hope: A Gospel from Prison

“И ми се иска да кажа на всички, които имат още майки и бащи, обичайте ги, докато са живи, и непременно им го кажете. Непременно! Защото утре може да е вече късно и думите за благодарност и за обич, които не сте им казали, ще заседнат, тежки и горчиви, във вашите гърди и няма да има земна сила да ги махне! - Докато са живи”

Love Parents

Book:Ключът на времето, том 6. Разкази

Source: Ключът на времето, том 6. Разкази

“We'd been through something our parents hadn't. The war made us older than our parents. And when you're older than your parents, what are you going to do? Who's going to show you how to live?”

War Parents Wwi Rebecca Makkai The Great Believers

Book:The Great Believers

Source: The Great Believers

“Alec didn’t recognize the woman, but he recognized that tone of voice. He knew how it was to lay claim to what you loved, a§ the more insistently because people doubted the love that belonged to you. Alec wasn’t sure what to say, so he did one of his favorite things. He produced his phone and found a rea§y good picture, walked up to the dais, and showed it to them both. “›is is my son, Max.”

Family Parents

Book:The Land I Lost

Source: The Land I Lost

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