Parentage Quotes

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G. Willow Wilson
“How dense and literal it is. I thought it had a much more sophisticated brain."
"Your mother is dense," Alif said wearily.
"My mother was an errant crest of sea foam. But that is neither here nor there.”
G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen

Mark  Lawrence
“In any case I would cut myself a path to the throne even if some bastard-born herder had fathered me on a gutter-whore—genealogy can work for me or I can cut down the family tree and make a battering ram. Either way is good.”
Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

Dani Shapiro
“Knowing what you know, you're more of a daughter to Paul than you can possibly imagine. You take something that isn't your own and you breathe life into it. You create it—and it becomes your creation. You are an agent to help my brother express the finest kind of love.”
Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love