Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they’d choose to hate themselves.
It felt strange to call them directly, to hear her father’s Hello? after the second ring, and when he heard her voice, he raised his, almost shouting, as he always did with international calls. Her mo...
The best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.
Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn't bring you up to have one
As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.
Cyril about Charles Avery:'Charles was a banker. He was quite rich but he was always cheating on his taxes. He went to prison a few times for it. And when he was younger he always had a string of wome...
It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance...after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place
No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as...