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“Once upon a time, there was a generation of parents who were certain that Elvis Presley's unashamed hip-swivellingvwas most certainly the end of society.”

Book:Understanding Y

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“All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently.”

Healing Influence Abuse Parenting Parents Manipulation Child Abuse Emotional Abuse Abuse Survivors Survivors Dysfunctional Families Belief System Core Beliefs Child Abuse Survivors

Book:Am I Bad? Recovering from Abuse

Source: Am I Bad? Recovering from Abuse

“Coming back last time to the house she grew up in, Isabel had been reminded of the darkness that had descended with her brothers' deaths, how loss had leaked all over her mother's life like a stain. As a fourteen-year-old, Isabel had searched the dictionary. She knew that if a wife lost a husband, there was a whole new word to describe who she was: she was now a widow. A husband became a widower. But if a parent loss a child, there was no special label for their grief. They were still just a mother or a father, even if they no longer had a son or daughter. That seemed odd. As to her own status, she wondered whether she was still technically a sister, now that her adored brothers had died.”

Loss Grief Family Parents Parenthood Sister Siblings Brothers

Book:The Light Between Oceans

Source: The Light Between Oceans

“To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap.”

“Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.”

Children Parenting Debt Parents Pay It Forward Indebtedness

Book:Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“You wanted hatchlings.” “I know. I just didn’t want those hatchlings. Personally, I blame your father.” Bercelak’s eyes grew wide. “Excuse me?” On a burst of laughter, she exclaimed, “Well that came out horribly wrong!”

Children Humor Parents

Book:Dragon Actually

Source: Dragon Actually

“If the one who gave me life wants the real me to die... then all I can do is die.”

Family Depression Suicide Parents Teen Angst

Book:After School Nightmare, Volume 8

Source: After School Nightmare, Volume 8

“Some of our parents were always on our side. Some of our parents chose to banish us rather than see us for who we were. And some of our parents, when they found out we were sick, stopped being dragons and became dragonslayers instead. Sometimes that’s what it takes—the final battle. But it should take much, much less than that.”

Parents

Book:Two Boys Kissing

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.”

Children Progress Parents Ruins Ecology

Book:Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

Source: Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

“That's peace - real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on... Yes, peace.”

Death Peace

Book:And Then There Were None

Source: And Then There Were None

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