"Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think of what my daughter needs.” 66…
“She was the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted.”…
“I’m going through hell,” she said. “Everything comes back to me as to why this has happened. I feel like it’s my fault. I’m sad but yet…
“I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. “…
* “"I remember leaving my house for the last time, bundled up like a cat on the way to the vet. As the car pulled away, my eyes were so clouded by tears I couldn't look back."”…
"I told you. His isolation can 't be broken. He can never come to believe that anybody will ever help him out. Ever. If he once thinks there 's an easy way out, he 's wrecked." (30)…
“If I would've known that was going to happen that day, I would've never left the house – ever.”…
“That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”…
“Well, sweetie, your father and I did not have the money to design our own child like all of our friends were doing at the time.”…
“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different?"…
life is he blurted out, “In fact, I wish I’d never been born!” The angelic stanger proceeded to…
“I don’t understand a thing about this world: about people, the and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.”…
“My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn’t love me less because I was born a…
7. “The thing is, what I’m trying to say is – they do get on a lot better without me, I can’t help them any. They ain’t mean. They buy me everything I want, but it’s now-you’ve-got-it-go-play-with-it.”…
"There is no amount of money they could give me to replace twenty years of my life... I missed my kids' childhoods. I always wanted to be a father to them. They can't give that back. I missed all of that."…