Quotes & Sayings About Dads Not Being There For Their Daughters

But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane. — J.D. Salinger

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it. — John Irving

But can't I sleep here while you're working?'
'You know I won't be able to. I can't even write with a cat in the room.'
'You've never tried with me in the room. I may have a good effect.'
Even though I was angry I couldn't bring myself to say no. I had no right to be because what I was implying was that the miserable manuscript I was writing was more important than her. At that moment it was, but I couldn't say that.
'OK,' I said. — Karl Ove Knausgard

What little light was left inside me flickered out. — Becca Fitzpatrick

We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here. — Angela Merkel

Sometimes two people are better off not together. I — Harper Bliss

It's an empowering idea. The entire goliath of the food industry is driven and determined by the choices we make as the waiter gets impatient for our order or in the practicalities ad whimsies of what we load into our shopping carts or farmers'-market bags. — Jonathan Safran Foer

One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it. — Peter Thiel

For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein? — John Wesley

Llamas? Really, Lex? For their manure?" Airiana asked as Lexi headed toward the door. "You weren't kidding, were you?"
"There are studies done about concocting a sort of tea with their manure and using it on the plants . . ."
Airiana held up her hand. "Don't use 'tea' and 'manure' in the same sentence or I'll have to pound you into the ground."
"You're such a baby," Lexi said. "It's science. You're supposed to love science."
"I draw the line at foul-smelling llama-manure tea."

-Airiana & Lexi — Christine Feehan

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person. — John Sergeant Wise

In everything I've done, I always just hated to lose more than I like to win. — Chris Paul