Quotes by Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

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John [the father] kept saying, "You have a penis. That means you’re a boy." One day, Shannon noticed that her son had be — Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain. Suffe — Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
The passion for such children contains no ego motive of anticipated reciprocity; one is choosing against, in the poet Ri — Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a ze — Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challe — Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
It is not true that "love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." Love alters all the time; it is fluid, in — Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the suppl — Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity