Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on.

But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.

Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you.

It is not your fault you believe what your parents tell you. It is theirs for telling you unbelievable things. -- ME

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon bits of rock.

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.

The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated with the Word of God.

Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.

Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.

But Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?