Quotes about Fathers and daughters

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I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he ha — Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct. — Noorilhuda, The Governess
We drove on in silence, Dad shaking his head in disgust every few minutes. I stared at him, wondering how it was we got — Jennifer Brown, Hate List
He is a demon, Clarissa,” said Valentine, still in the same soft voice. “A demon with a man’s face. I know how deceptive — Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
I'm an old man now. Old on the inside. I'm a drunk, and I hate to tell you, but I'm not prepared to change. So you have — Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay
He knocked politely and entered the principal’s office with his dad face in full effect. He put his hand on my shoulder — Charlotte Leonetti
If you can't do what you really want to do, then do the next best thing! — Stacey Culpepper
She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d — Carla H. Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun
Henri held herself as if only her arms could keep her pieced together, and I saw that behind all her fake control—throwi — Jessica Taylor
He was a loving father, but he did his loving in private. Quietly, he would tell his daughter to drive safely. On her we — Debra Anastasia, Saving Poughkeepsie
There is pride, too, though - pride that he has done it alone. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is t — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
She’ll find you. Her need to know you will eventually consume her. — Stephen Douglass, The Tainted Trust
These two Joes—the nasty bully and the starry-eyed dreamer—were my father. Growing up, the difficulty was knowing just w — Pythia Peay, American Icarus: A Memoir of Father and Country
Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire. — Various attributed sources
It was during those years that I discovered that loving [my father] was like sticking a blade into my own heart. It got — Alison Singh Gee, Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home
We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us — Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros
He had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle of his lif — Roman Payne
Why shouldn't Mom trust me, Dad" Why are you so determined to make me out to be the bad guy all the time?" I stared at t — Jennifer Brown, Hate List
I couldn't make myself imagine Dad holding some creamy-faced baby, cooing at it, telling it he loved it. Taking it to ba — Jennifer Brown, Hate List
It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life wh — Ann Packer