“This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man.”— Karen Thompson Walker
“I’d love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I’d love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I’d be one day to look inside it.”— David Mitchell
“Dad had once said, Trust your mind, Rob. If it smells like shit but has writing across it that says Happy Birthday and a candle stuck down in it, what is it?Is there icing on it? he’d said.Dad had done that thing of squinting his eyes when an answer was not quite there yet.”— George Saunders
“Being a dad is quite rewarding and even magical at times. It is our greatest chance to do something right in our lives that will keep making the world a brighter place even generations after we are gone.”— Timothy Pina
“Father always said that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, time doesn’t grow on trees either.”— Richelle E. Goodrich
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”— Umberto Eco
“Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one’s attitude toward one’s father largely shaped one’s attitude toward God.”— Dennis Prager
“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father,” she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don’t you think?”— Jodi Picoult