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"And won't he grow up to be the healthiest of young men, all because she kept him safe? Ready for the world. Ready to one day conquer it. To travel. Get on a train. Go to work. Get blown out of her life.Maybe she should be having that glass of wine and cigarette after all."
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"If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up."
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"As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended."
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"Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things."
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"Love your kids and just be there for them. You don't have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that's too much."
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"Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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"It's never too early to begin pointing your little ones' souls heavenward."
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"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib."
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"If you are not aware of the goal of your living, what will you do you when your children grow up and leave the house?"
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"Overprotective parents can easily set limits for their children, but they heavily misunderstand the boundaries their children can have as they grow older to become adults. If overprotective parents could not compromise to give their grown children personal space, they deserve some form of intervention from a professional who could explain to them of what is or not appropriate to interact and deal with their children."
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"It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn."
Choice
"I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food."
Life
"But Froi looked around with wonder. As if he had never seen the world from up so high before."
Life
"She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me, we want to live and we do anyfing to make that happen. That's the difference between us and the others."
Motivation
"I trace his face with my fingers, 'Let me see. A guy tells me that he would have thrown himself in front of a train if it wasn't for me and then drives seven hours straight, without whingeing once, on a wild-goose chase in search of my mother with absolutely no clue where to start. He is, in all probability, going to get court-martialled because of me, has put up with my moodiness all day long, and knows exactly what to order me for breakfast. It doesn't get any more romantic than that, Jonah."
Romance
"If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others."
Society
"We're not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It's why people like you and I need to record our people's stories so we can find those moments when our paths cross, and only then will we know true peace."
Society
"At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too."
Emotion
"I think my family has come a long way. The sad thing is that so many haven't. So many have stayed in their own little world. Some because they don't want to leave it, others because the world around them won't let them in."
Family
"Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices."
Sacrifice
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