Father And Daughter Quotes

“The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Never and never, my girl riding far and near
In the land of the hearthstone tales, and spelled asleep,
Fear or believe that the wolf in a sheepwhite hood,
Loping and bleating roughly and blithely shall leap,
My dear, my dear,
Out of a lair in the flocked leaves in the dew dipped year,
To eat your heart in the house in the rosy wood.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

“You don't believe that I could care about you, even after you betrayed me?' He watches me with his cat eyes. 'I'm still your father.'

'You're my father's murderer,' I blurt out.

'I can be both,' Madoc says, smiling, showing those teeth.

I tried to rattle him, but I succeeded only in rattling myself.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I guess I don't know my daughter very well. Because the Jude I knew would cut out that boy's heart for what he did to you tonight.'

At the shame of having the revel thrown in my face, I snap. 'You let me be humiliated in Faerie from the time I was a child. You've let Folk hurt me and laugh at me and mutilate me.' I hold up the hand with the missing fingertip, where one of his own guards bit it clean off. Another scar is at its centre, from where Dain forced me to stick a dagger through my hand. 'I've been glamoured and carried in to a revel, weeping and alone. As far as I can tell, the only difference between tonight and all the other nights when I endured indignities without complaint is that those benefited you, and when I endure this, it benefits me.'

Madoc looks shaken. 'I didn't know.'

'You didn't want to know,' I return.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“A beautiful woman is a jewel, a good woman, a treasure. You were my greatest treasure, my beautiful daughter.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Father,' I say.

'I used to think I wanted you to call me that,' he says. 'But it turns out that when you do, good things seldom come after.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“It’s like they said! Geralt! It’s like they said! Am I your destiny? Say it! Am I your destiny?'

‘You’re more than that, Ciri. Much more.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Miecz przeznaczenia

“Ah reckon we can git us some rest'rant vittles," Pa said, and led her along the pier toward the Barkley Cove Diner. Kya had never eaten restaurant food; had never set food inside. Her heart thumped as she brushed dried mud from her way-too-short overalls and patted down her tangled hair. As Pa opened the door, every customer paused mid-bite. A few men nodded faintly at Pa; the women frowned and turned their heads. One snorted, "Well, they prob'ly can't read the shirt and shoes required."
Pa motioned for her to sit at a small table overlooking the wharf. She couldn’t read the menu, but he told her most of it, and she ordered fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, white acre peas, and biscuits fluffy as fresh-picked cotton. He had fried shrimp, cheese grits, fried “okree,” and fried green tomatoes. The waitress put a whole dish of butter pats perched on ice cubes and a basket of cornbread and biscuits on their table, and all the sweet iced tea they could drink. Then they had blackberry cobbler with ice cream for dessert.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“What was my first word? I asked him, and he said: Don’t. I asked him what my second word was but he couldn’t remember. I think I’d have made something up if I was him. Like go.”
― Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

“You were always good,' he says, looking down at me. 'Just never good enough.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Her father. The man who is supposed to be her North Star.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“My beautiful daughter, you did what the mystics have been preaching for thousands of years. You dived head-first into love. It doesn’t matter what his intentions were. Yours were pure because you are the embodiment of love.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Au long de toute sa jeune vie elle a essayé de satisfaire son père, sans bien comprendre qu'étant une fille elle n'y arriverait jamais.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“My dad said, "Glenda, you can go anywhere in the world you want to and do anything you desire." Hearing those words had a very strong and powerful impact on me, and to do this very day they inspire me when making life decisions.”
― Glenda Dugar, In My Own Words

“Becoming a father increased my capacity for love, to love and to be loved. When I fell hook, line and sinker for Helena, I would never have believed that I would be able to give, that I could even consider sharing a single fragment of my heart with another- only her, but as I sit here in the rocking chair and a serene calmness surrounds me, I gaze down upon our four day old twins, Athos and Lucy. While I cradle these tiny little miracles of life in the crook of my arms, another level of love expands within the four chambers of my heart. Everything that once created my tumultuous past has paled into insignificance, and at last I finally feel as if I am not just systematically breathing in oxygen but that I am alive in the truest sense of the word. © J.L. Thomas 2019”
― Jl Thomas

“Life on the road, even for a worldly man like C. W. Post and his well-bred daughter, presented certain challenges. although he could order meals, fasten Marjorie's buttons, and make sure that she was properly dressed, C. W. could not fix her hair.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post

“Larana: No! Father, you can’t kill him!
Arguron King: Of course I can, my dear! I have minions, and soldiers and lots and lots of pointy –
Larana: Argh! No!
Arguron King: Oooh! I see! You want to kill him yourself! How like your dear mother you are!
Larana: Father, listen! I don’t want him killed at all!
Arguron King: I… I don’t understand what you are saying…”
― Phil Foglio, The Incorruptible Library (The Second Journey of Agatha Heterodyne Volume 3)

“This isn't one of your movies, Father, this is real life. There are not a bevy of directors, writers, actors, designers and editors to set this film. It is yours alone.”
― Alex Brunkhorst, The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine

“FATHER IS THE GREATEST HEIGHT ON THE EARTH”
― J. Lepika

“I gaze at the orchid sitting on his windowsill. It's wrapped in bamboo and tied with a purple tassel. Its yellow and green leaves are long and narrow, striped like a tiger's tail. The blooms are tiny, white, and fragrant.
"Fūkiran," my father says. "Grown since the Edo Period and collected by feudal lords as gifts to the shogun or emperor." He slides the office doors closed.
"I know." I smile because it's familiar. My mother has a woodblock of it above her nightstand. Neofinetia falcata.”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After

“I rise, crossing the room to put one gloved hand against the pallid green skin of his face. He closes his cat eyes. I cannot forgive him, but I cannot hate him, either. We stand like that for a long moment, then he looks up, takes my unbandaged hand, and kisses the back of it, mouth against cloth.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“...when they are gone, it will be use staring across a chessboard at each other. And when I best you, I will make sure I do it as thoroughly as I would any opponent who has shown themselves to be my equal.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“And if I am particularly kind that evening, particularly deferential, if I laugh particularly loudly, it is because I know I will never do this again. I will never have him behave like this with me again. But for one final night, he's the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have- for better or worse- become what I am.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Please, good sir- Feyre is my youngest. I beseech you to spare her. She is all... she is all...' But whatever he meant to say died in his throat as the beast roared again. But hearing those few words he'd managed to get out, the effort he'd made... it was like a blade to my belly. My father cringed as he said, 'Please-”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“You were always too good for here, Feyre. Too good for us, too good for everyone.' He squeezed my hands. 'If you ever escape, ever convince them that you've paid the debt, don't return.'

I hadn't expected a heart-wrenching good-bye, but I hadn't imagined this, either.

'Don't ever come back,' my father said, releasing my hands to shake me by the shoulders. 'Feyre.' He stumbled over my name, his throat bobbing. 'You go somewhere new- and you make a name for yourself.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“The words and melodies pierced through his heart. His heart ached with the pain of missing his daughter. His little shining star. He wanted to see her even if it is one more time. He wanted to hold her and tell her how Baba loves her. How he always loved her.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“My father only gazed at my sister. Ignored the monster behind him and said to her, 'I loved you from the first moment I held you in my arms. And I am... I am so sorry, Nesta- my Nesta. I am so sorry, for all of it.'

'Please,' Nesta said to the king. Her only word, guttural and hoarse. 'Please.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“I notice a tall older fellow in a brawl with two younger, burly men. I think of helping him, but he seems to be holding his own just fine.”
― Elizabeth Helen, Woven by Gold

“You're a silly sausage, you know that?" Dad says, kissing the top of my head.
I can think of less nice ways to put it.
"Yes," | agree in a tiny voice. "I am unfortunately the silliest of all sausages”
― Holly Smale, Picture Perfect