“I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.” KnowsMenRealHomeHateWhiteHairDadI HateMy DadRingsShirtsUniformsJeansT ShirtReal MenConversesShort Hair Author:Lou Doillon
“Body hair. You know when you're swimming as a kid and you want to crawl on your dad? None of us went anywhere near him. 'My god, a beaver! Everyone out of the pool!” KnowsWantBodyKidsHairDadSwimmingPoolYour DadBeaversBody Hair Author:Jon Stewart
“There's a one in six billion chance you'll find your soul mate. And that's if they're not dead. At best they're probably living in some Siberian ice cave eating bugs and weaving beads into their back hair. But they're out there. My dad believed that to find your perfect soul mate, first, you had to look through a bunch of other guys' soul mates.” IfsFirstsLooksSoulGuyChancePerfectHairDadSixEatingMy DadBillionsBunchIceYour SoulMatesCavesBugsOther GuysSoul MateWeavingBeads Author:Christopher Titus
“Dad, you played rounders with me, even though you hated it and wished I'd take up cricket. You learned how to keep a stamp collecion because I wanted to know. For hours you sat in hospitals and never, not once, complained. You brushed my hair like a mother should. You gave up work for me, friends for me, four years of your life for me. You never moaned. Hardly ever. You let me have Adam. You let me have my list. I was outrageous. Wanting, wanting so much. And you never said, 'That's enough. Stop now.” KnowsShouldYearsSaidEnoughWantedMotherHoursFourHairDadLet MeListsHatedSatHospitalsAdamFour YearsCricketStampsGave UpOutrageousLike A Mother Book:Before I Die Source: Before I Die
“Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as they really were, with as many inconsistencies as there were hairs on a human head (100,000 to 200,000). Instead, the mind used a lazy shorthand, smoothed the person over into their most dominating characteristic--their pessimism or insecurity (something really being lazy, turning them into either Nice or Mean)--and one made the mistake of judging them from this basis alone and risked, on a subsequent encounter, being dangerously surprised.” PeopleMindHumansMeanPersonsMadeEyeUsedMistakeNiceJudgingHairDadBasesRememberedCharacteristicsEncountersLazyInsecurityPessimismMisleadDominatingInconsistencyShorthandBeing Lazy Author:Marisha Pessl