You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
Awake it was difficult to find anything in that chaotic clutter, but asleep she could...when the contours of reality were as faint as a tracery of pale ink.
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.
So I am death" Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast. "This is death toast sweety.
I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.
Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.
If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.
I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.
I breastfed my son for 13 months, and I plan to do at least the same with my daughter. That's an amazing thing for babies, but it's also really good for the mother because it regulates your body again after pregnancy.
A father’s only dream is to hear his daughter ask to kill some zombies. Go for it, sweetie. Make this old man proud.
You know, I'm really starting to hate the insect life around here. Next time, remind me to bring a can of Off!
I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us left behind.
I feel no peace, I feel nothing. I think I will feel nothing forever.
People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause. 'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.
Most fathers don't threaten to disembowel their daughter's boyfriends." "That's not true. And anyway, that's not what I actually said. It was much worse.
A wife who obsesses on "fixing" her husband only succeeds in demeaning him. pg 48
You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.
It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.
