What in the world is this abomination?”Lissa, only slightly more tactful, asked, “Adrian, is this some kind of joke?

I found out who my real dad is on Facebook. I also found out who he isn’t. He isn’t the man I thought he isn’t.

I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice.

Father Sams, a mirthful shaman, looked at a nighted photograph of actress Lar Park Lincoln beneath his glass of bourbon con hielo.

The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.

For me, it’s not just about blessing my generation, I've done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless.

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will." Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

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

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.

I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father's house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty.

He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [...] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22]

That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

Non capì, comprese. Perché comprendere era di più, era un abbraccio, era prendere con sé, era farne parte.

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