I blinked. Because even though my dad never, ever complained about being a young dad, I always wondered about his regrets. How his need to keep abandoned, sad things might apply to me, too. ― Maurene Goo

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Some parents sometimes use junk food as a babysitter. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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A man who indulges in parenthood for the first time at the age of fifty-four deserves all he gets. ― Raymond Chandler

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Some men became fathers mainly to show that they are not gay. Some, only to hide the fact that they are. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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And his expression, now. I realized right then -- how disappointed you could be when you were all in with someone. When you cared so deeply. How your heart could break, so precisely and quickly. ― Maurene Goo

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watching his son in quick pulses of attention. ― Thomas Pynchon

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Sons want their fathers' attention until the precise moment when fathers want their sons'. ― Fredrik Backman

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I knew then that I must survive for something more than survival's sake. I must survive for you. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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He was all iron outside, but all father within. ― Hall Caine

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I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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