“They don’t have to understand you, they’re your parents. They love you.”— Tom Verica, David Frankel, Ellen Kuras, Kacy Duke, Kacy Duke, Laverne Cox, imdb.com
“If internalizers were shamed for their sensitive emotions during childhood, as adults they may be embarrassed to show any deep emotion. They may say “I’m sorry” when they start crying in a therapist’s office, as though they should be able to talk about their emotional pain without showing it. Some e…”— Lindsay C. Gibson, amazon.com
“Before all of it, this record showed me, my mother was a girl who drew swirly hearts and had crushes and listened to The Monkees. She was a girl like me.”— Sandra Ebejer, psiloveyou.xyz
“Is it wrong to compare my father to a processed piece of deep-fried food, that unholy creation that is like a chicken translated again and again until it achieves a new form of existence? Because I think of him whenever I bite into one.”— C Pam Zhang, nytimes.com
“Seeing Stu confuse a baby bottle for the phone helped him laugh at some of his own moments of exhausted confusion.”— Quinn Myers, melmagazine.com
“Keep in mind that just because your mom and dad seem more responsive to your brothers’ problems doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate your good decisions.”— Charlotte Cowles, thecut.com
“Even in its brevity, the note was evidence that my daughter was left to be found. She was not left to die.”— Robin Reif, nytimes.com
“Yi: [to Everest] This is you and your parents. [she places three rocks together] Peng: Aw, you have your mother’s eyes.”— Jill Culton, Yi (voice), Chloe Bennet, imdb.com
“For better or for worse, my mother is a star that I can’t look away from. She makes the normal beige world I move through sparkle with mischief, hijinx, magic. That doesn’t mean I always like it.”— Sarah Barnes, manrepeller.com
“Stoney: [a car horn is heard] Your parents! Dave: My parents! Link: AHH.”— Shawn Schepps, Stoney Brown, Pauly Shore, imdb.com
“They all have their little nicknames; however, I prefer to use the names their parents gave them, the names society will recognize them by.”— Louis Sachar, Dr. Pendanski, Tim Blake Nelson, imdb.com
“I think she is better off with two happy parents apart, than two sad ones together.”— Liz Doran, Thomas Ward, Josh Thomas, Mae, Renee Lim, imdb.com
“Our parents weren’t right about everything. They did their best with what they had available to them and now we can do the same. Think about how much information has changed!”— Emily Souder, scarymommy.com
“There is no emotional road map for those people who are grappling with the loss of someone they may not have liked all that much, and who may have been the source of extreme pain in their lives.”— Catherine Pearson, huffpost.com
“My parents can't be spies! They're not cool enough!”— Robert Rodriguez, Carmen Cortez, Alexa PenaVega, imdb.com
“My parents were born into the good life. Old money, blue blooded, society sweethearts.”— Leslie Caveny, Penelope Wilhern, Christina Ricci, imdb.com
“When you have a child, you get a surge of ambition, or a surge of hormonal urgency, to get something done, something worthy of your new station in life.”— Nicholson Baker, theparisreview.org