Absent Parents Quotes

“Some kids tell me their parents are never at home. How I wish. I never have a minute to myself, except in my room. Our back yard is no escape. Every time I sit by the pool, Mom is at the kitchen window doing this and that. Always watching.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

“You're a grown man now, Nathan. I'm sorry for any problems you have, but part of being an adult is to stop blaming your parents for whatever shortcomings you have. That's pretty basic.”
― Noah Van Sciver, The Lizard Laughed

“She halted before her father, the hero of her short life. He would do anything for her, wrest her from the grip of death. She would return home... or something would. Something would sit like a doll in his drawing room, saying nothing and smiling a painted smile forever.
Her father's eyes flitted this way and that. He could not see her, she realized. Perhaps he never had.”
― Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

“The absence of a parent plays the role of a parent.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Your mother doesn't know these things,” he said, a note of pleading in his voice. "She has always been that way. She is an artist. Her feet barely touch the ground. I've been the one to keep her tethered to the earth. And now it's your job. And you're too young, and it's not fair, but there it is." He was right. It wasn't fair.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

“and at night, I read my own bedtime stories”
― Steven Bruce, White Knuckle