Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.
Heather BrewerTags: parents junior-high school-is-hell
If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean—even if it did build muscle—whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same me but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period… the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities.
Christopher HitchensTags: life money women parents philosophy youth opportunity old-age desire absurdity self-contradiction wishful-thinking conundrums groundhog-day tiresias
Nightmares did come true. Because, after her second night of major loving with the man of her dreams, the absolute last person she ever wanted to see was her mother. Yet there she was, her small, hefty frame trundling up the stairs to Maira’s front door.
She was so frozen with horror, she couldn’t move until she heard the doorbell ring.
Don’t answer it. Maybe she’ll go away.
Well, that was just stupid.
Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?
Rick RiordanTags: family parents relationships embarrassment
Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.
John BroadbentTags: parents children authority erudition vocabulary john-milton
Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?
Jeffrey ArcherTags: parents children ambitions
It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.
Heather BrewerFaith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
Richard DawkinsTags: parents faith child atheist parenthood parental-love
Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky.
Rachel CaineTags: parents shane-collins claire-danvers eve-rosser michael-glass reba
...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35)
Robert WhitakerTags: parents mental-illness medication
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