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“Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old. Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.”

Way Want Children Long Pain Suffering House Grows Parent Voice Forget Century Adults Skins Embrace Curse Seconds Freeze Another Time Stop Time Hoarse Voice

Author:Alan Lightman

“I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents. Parents earnestly try not to inflame, but their comments contain no scale and a strange focus. Discussing your private life with parents is like misguidedly looking at a zit in a car's rearview mirror and being convinced, in the absence of contrast or context, that you have developed combined heat rash and skin cancer.”

Trying Years Matter Hard Parent Focus Car Strange Skins Mirrors Cancer Convinced Absence Scales Heat Comment Contrast Twelve Private Life Discussing Rearview Mirror Zits Skin Cancer

Author:Douglas Coupland

“Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.”

Ends Kids Parent Adults Skins Sofas

Author:Marty Nemko

“When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?" I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn't get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn't hearing this from my immediate family - my mother never said anything to that effect - but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.”

Said Jobs Remember Faces Mother Parent Voice Dark Teacher Seeing Effects Television Husband Messages Skins Hearing Interviews Grades Cream Immediate Family Dark Skin

Author:Lupita Nyong'o

“I don't see a difference between a biological family and an adoptive one. I think the difference is more in the eyes of others around you, who might judge because you're not the same skin color as your parents.”

Thinking Eye Parent Judging Skins

Author:Olivier Rousteing

“In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the world outside of her, just like we are in life. These pressures and circumstances shape character. Who your parents are determines your genetic make up: your skin color, your sex, your height, weight. Where you are raised does affect your worldview either positively or negatively, your accent. Your economic class affects where you go to school, what you eat, where you sleep.”

World Book Character School Parent Sleep Economic Circumstances Skins Determine Positively Worldview

Author:James Franco

“My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.”

Parent Taught Color Judging Skins

Author:Taylor Swift

“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”

Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven

“This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.”

Parent Water Written Letters Skins Tables Kitchen Cried Kitchen Table

Book:Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

Source: Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

“Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing.”

“like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.”

Source: Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25

“The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.”

Made Action Choices Parent Color Skins Defining Our Actions After Death Life Choices

Book:Destined

Source: Destined