

“There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.”
― Wives and Daughters
― Wives and Daughters

“I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting.”
― Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
― Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

“Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed

“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
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