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“I never thought to ascribe my mother's emotional and physical exhaustion to the lack of a husband and father; rather, I ascribed it to my existence. In other words, I grew up learning the exact opposite of what Eisenhower was taught. I learned that if I didn't exist, the family would be better off. I grew up believing that if I had never been born, things would be easier for the people I loved. (page 35)”
― Donald Miller, Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation

tags: childhood, father-and-son, mothers, parenting, single-mothers

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“People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers-
a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.”
― Anthony Liccione, Please Pass Me, the Blood & Butter

tags: abandoned, dictionary, empty, family, father-and-son, ink-blood, lost-child, poetry, relationship, strangle, time, visit, waiting, writer

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“With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.”
― Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening

tags: bewilderment, childhood, dad, disorientation, family-history, father, father-and-son, identity, parent, personal-history, son, surprise, through-the-looking-glass

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“He'd done everything in his power to make damn certain that Daniel never had to fear coming home. At that endeavor, Cameron knew he'd already surpassed his own father.”
― Jennifer Ashley, The Many Sins of Lord Cameron

tags: cameron, daniel, father-and-son

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“Ser padre es muy distinto a la maternidad. A las mujeres les crece dentro el hijo, las antoja, les duele, les da náuseas, los patea por dentro. En cambio, ser padre es que los demás digan: 'este es tu hijo'. Es si acaso, una patada por fuera. Es una palabra. Es algo a lo que se puede uno acostumbrar o rechazar. Esa lejanía, esa posibilidad de tomar distancia. La madre no puede hacer eso. Es lo cercano, lo que envuelve, lo que cuida. El padre puede desatenderse, evadir, quedarse callado. Ser hijo de un padre es mucho más complejo que serlo de una madre. Al padre se le idealiza cuando está ausente, y cuando no, se le perdona tras una visita, una caricia tosca en el cabello, una palmada mal dada. Ser hijo es una tarea de abandono”
― Fabrizio Mejía Madrid, Nación TV. La novela de Televisa

tags: father-and-son

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