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"Someday, I'm going to have to break some of your rules, Mom.'I know,' she said. 'Try to do it behind my back, will you? You can bet on that, Mom. We both sat there and laughed."
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"I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself."
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"If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love."
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"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."
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"The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth."
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"You guys gotta get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father."
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"How to advise parents for being successful in raising children stillremains an important unsolved problem."
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"The hard and unexpected part is the realization not just that my son is not here but that the boy he was is gone forever. I would give anything to have them both back. But of course that cannot be. Life moves on. Kids grow up and move away, and if you don't know this already, believe me, it happens faster than you can imagine."
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"Dads. Do you not realize that your child needs to feel your skin on his? Do you not realize the incredible and powerful bond that skin on skin contact with your daughter will give you? Do you not understand the permanent mental connections that are made when you stroke your son's bare back or rub your daughter's bare tummy while you tell bedtime stories? And if any idiot says anything about that being inappropriate, you're gonna get kicked in the face, first by me, and then by every other good dad out there. Touching your child is your duty as a father."
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"Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making."
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"Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child's entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?"
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"Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists."
Equality
"I always thought of men as being hard-maybe because I was hard. But there was a softness in Tom that betrayed his large masculine hands and his deep baritone voice. He knew something about love that I didn't. I don't know where he'd learned it, but it wasn't something you got from a book, not something you could learn in an online class, not something you could borrow. Maybe it was something you were born with. Some people knew how to love and some people didn't. Tom was the former. I was the latter. I didn't know which one of us had it worse."
Sensitivity
"Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."
Nostalgia
"And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?"
Faith
"I wished it was raining,' he said.'I don't need the rain,' I said. 'I need you."
Longing
"Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you meet it face to face. And then that word becomes someone you know. That word becomes someone you hate. And you take that word with you wherever you go. And you can't pretend it isn't there."
Language
"I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be."
Identity
"I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility."
Life
"I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled."
Reflection
"The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter."
Emotion
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