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“The more boring the child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“First . . . your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.” Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Being in love with the one parent and hating the other are among the essential constituents of the stock of psychical impulses which is formed at that time and which is of such importance in determining the symptoms of the later neurosis.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“He sat down on the bed, breathing and staring; thinking first the old selfish child's thought that comes with the death of a parent, how will it affect me now that this earliest and strongest of protections is gone?” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“When a child first catches adults out . . . his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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