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“Love is homesickness,” I once read in a book. The author’s therapist had told her that the pursuit of love in adulthood is just an expression of missing our mums and dads—that we look for intimacy and romance because we never stop wanting parental security and attention. We simply displace it.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“My father did not become the bad guy for me. Not yet. That day I hated my mother for killing my father, but also for all the reasons you cannot say. Part of my child brain hated her because she wasn’t young enough or even beautiful enough. Because she wasn’t strong enough. Or because she was too strong. Because she was so complex where my father was not. I hated my mother, in short, for being a woman.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“My heart is made of glass and if I ever lose you, Betty, my heart will break into more hurt than eternity would have time to heal.”
― Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast