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Quotes About Father

Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air, I heard a maid making her moan; Said, 'Saw ye my father? Or saw ye my mother? Or saw ye my brother John? Or saw ye the lad I that I love best, And his name it is Sweet William?
~ Cassandra Clare
Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a servant to take the body of the bird away and bury it. The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
~ Cassandra Clare
The way Magnus' breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he'd said his father's name.
~ Cassandra Clare
Yes," Jace said, unable to help himself, "I was trained to be an evil mastermind from a young age. Pulling the wings off flies, poisoning the earth's water water supply - I was covering that stuff in kindergarten. I guess we're all just lucky my father faked his own death before he got to the raping and pillaging part of my education, or no one would be safe.
~ Cassandra Clare
This is the deepest wish of my heart?" "Sure," Magnus said. "Your father, proud of you. You, the hero of the hour. Me, loving you. Everyone approving of you." Alec looked over at Jace. "Okay, what about the Jace thing?" Magnus shrugged. "I don't know. Thet part's just weird.
~ Cassandra Clare
Your father," Luke said, "what did he say to you when you saw him? What did he promise you?" "Oh, you know. The usual. A lifetime's supply of Knicks tickets.
~ Cassandra Clare
If love is great, then it is worth fighting for." "What if it is immoral somehow? Forbidden?" "Forbidden? But my father's love for my mother was forbidden, or at least against the law. Or do mean if she is married, or a vampire?" "Or a married vampire." "Well, nevertheless," Will said, with a grin. "One should fight on. Love conquers all." Will and Jem
~ Cassandra Clare
When I went to stay with I'm, he asked me for something of my fathers to make the tracking easier. I gave him the Morgenstern ring. He said he'd let me know if he senses Valentine anywhere in the city, but so far he hasn't." "Maybe he just wanted your ring," Clary said. "He sure wears lot of jewelry.
~ Cassandra Clare
Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?
~ Cassandra Clare
The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding.
~ Cat Deeley
You know, I should start thinking on names. I have to be over two months gone. A name is important. Especially for this baby." "Why especially this one?" Rachel asked, looking up from the bread she was kneading. "Names are important for everybody." Loretta sighed. "Well, with Hunter as the father, I have to think of names he'd approve of." "You call that child Running Water and I'll disown you.
~ Catherine Anderson
Well, with Hunter as the father, I have to think of names he'd approve of." "You call that child Running Water and I'll disown you." Loretta giggled. "I don't know. After hemming all those diapers, maybe Running Water wouldn't be so far off mark.
~ Catherine Anderson
I'm in no need of matrimony, Father. I still have my honor." Hunter jerked her to his side and, in an ominously even voice, said, "Your honor will soon go the way of the wind, Blue Eyes. You made a God promise. You are my woman! Now I say you will be my wife!
~ Catherine Anderson
You are my father, Incarceron. I was born from your pain. Bone of steel; circuits for veins. My heart a vault of iron.
~ Catherine Fisher
After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
~ Catherine Helen Spence
I carefully crawled on to the side of his chest, careful not to knock out his tubes, and fell asleep. I could hear the sounds of his body working. The creaky floor sounds from his tummy. The swish of his blood. The pounding of his heart. It sounded like I was swimming and listening to the sounds of water beneath the surface of my father. This was my dad.
~ Catherine Hernandez
I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.
~ Catherine Marshall
And then, every time I didn't see her, there was a fall involved. I thought about dancing on the fifth-floor ledge outside out apartment. Every train she wasn't on felt something like hitting the pavement from five floors up. So maybe my father was right about that. Maybe happiness and excitement really are dangerous things.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Ah, yes. That. The sin of being happy or excited. According to my father, we must guard carefully against such things. According to my father, these emotions are the equivalent of dancing on out fifth-floor window ledge. Clearly inviting a nasty fall.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
mean. The biggest regret of his life has been having no last name, no pictures of Pearl, and no way of knowing who his father was. Oh, by the way . . .
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Once, my father chastised me in the car on the way home because he said I didn't act like I wanted to be there. I didn't want to be there. Nobody had warned me that I was supposed to act.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
August remembered Harvey's words, and when he said good-bye he silently let them go. Released them into their own lives. He wished for their father to stay out of trouble, even if it meant he'd never see the boys again. Because that's just what you do. You let go.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
When he woke in the morning, his father still had not come back. That was when Remy fully came to understand fear. He thought he had felt it all along. But in that fulcrum of a moment, he realized he had only understood a sort of miniature fear, like fear's little brother.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Her father's shadow looked sadly down at her. "You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won't forget your war either.
~ Catherynne M. Valente