Dear Future Daughter:1) When you’re at some party, chain smoking on the roof with some strange girl with blue hair and exorbitant large dark eyes, ask her about her day. I promise you, you won’t...

He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same.

Who is the daughter of God?

Mama said it’s probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don’t think I really...

I’ve only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

It’s amazing. I can’t believe how brilliant the whole thing is – my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.

A daughter will follow in her mom’s footsteps so make sure to set a good example.

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.

Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

…be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit; don’t squat down to play marbles—you are not a boy, you know; don’t pick people’s flowers—you might catch something; don’t throw...

Many a man has known that startling instant in which Dan Cupid, that busy young rascal, took things in hand, and told him that his baby girl was not a baby girl now, and was...

They’re everywhere. You can reach up and pull them off the trees.

You see?” The Father whispered as the boy passed without meeting their eyes. “You shouldn’t feel ashamed of your problem. Your life experiences oftentimes is the same as someone else’s.

I was the problem and the solution.

She wanted to punch her father in his snout, but she wouldn’t. He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her...

During the last week of her father’s life, Blanca stayed home with him. ‘I didn’t bathe. I didn’t sleep. I sat in the bed with him in the living room. And we were communicating all...

And she’s like, you know, the ‘Grace’ in U2’s song, the one that ‘carries the world on her hips’.” – Diana Rigsby, M.D. Ph.D.

DaughterA sprinkle of sparkle,A dazzle of sweet,A flutter of cute,From your head to your feet.

My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer.

Really, Mom? That’s your advice? Boys are like candy. What is that? Forrest Gump on teens?

And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to the color, and the wooden frame that held it in place....

this is how you smile to someone you don’t like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don’t like at all; this is how you smile to someone you like completely; this...

The expression in her eyes was bitter as nightshade. ‘You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the...

Genesis began with the Father losing His family. Revelation ends with Him getting them back. Is there nothing to be learned from this sad cycle? Truly, family is the legitimate theme of holy text.pg vi

When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it – that was one of the worst feelings.

You are a woman who is beautifully created by the love of God and should not be taken for granted because you are the precious daughter of God.

There was even a story passed among the queen’s court that when freshly hatched, Rhiannon bit her mother on the neck when she tried to cuddle her new daughter. But Rhiannon didn’t believe that for...

My daughter is in the lawsuit because you need that for standing.

I could no longer remember the way my mother’s eyes looked before the slowing. Had they always been so red around the edges? Surely, those pockets of gray beneath her lower lashes were new. She...

Maybe it’s just a daughter’s job to piss off her mother.

Well, you don’t need my help for that, my dear boy!” said Sir Horace, settling himself more comfortably in his chair.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn’t even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

If you’re so keen on me being healthy then you should have no problem accepting me for the way I am. That’s what’s healthy, Mom. Not being focused on all this freaky weight-loss stuff.

My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.

I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a...

Dr. Bone Specialist came in, made me stand up and hobble across the room, checked my reflexes, and then made me lie down on the table. He bent my right knee this way and that,...

Behind every successful man is a woman but few of us realize that behind most successful women is a man too; her father.

I don’t know how long we stand there holding each other. It could be ten minutes, an hour, or a day. All I know is that when I finally let go, I can breathe. I...

Clearly.

Defining yourself in terms of how you rank is always dangerous and ultimately immature. It doesn’t matter whether the rank has to do with your grades, your weight or where you finished in the 800...

Thank you very much,” Scottie said, and for some reason, the fact that I didn’t get this made me feel completely besieged. It’s crazy how much fathers are supposed to know these days. I come...

To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

Her father sat her down and spoke to her with great seriousness. “You are not a witch, Katerina. There is magic in the world, and some of it is wholesome, and some of it is...

The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4

I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am.

Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.