224 Quotes About Daughters

After all, the Hangman loved his daughter.

There are many different paths that lead to my happiness... one of them is in the protective instinct that is marked by my unconditional, generous and limitless love that I feel for my daughters. This happiness produced in addition to the importance of this fact, by the responsibility of having a small child to care for--I am one of those people who from an early age were very clear that they would like to start a family.

She knew it was wrong to be angry with her mother now - the weather wasn't her fault - but Loreda couldn't help herself. She was mad at the world, and somehow that meant shew as mad at her mom most of all.

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

In many ways, food was how my mother expressed her love. No matter how critical or cruel she seemed—constantly pushing me to be what she felt was the best version of myself—I could always feel her affection radiating from the lunches she packed and the meals she prepared for me just the way I liked them.

Even though we knew she was going to die eventually, when it happened it was still a terrible, rude shock. I thought I was prepared, but when it happened I fell apart. That's when I realized I'd been hanging on to the hope, however slim, that as long as she was alive she might somehow get better.

My identity rests solely on my two most precious masterpieces; my daughters.

Animosity hung between them like a two-edged sword; neither of them could use it without first getting hurt herself.

Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Daddy,' wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, 'people will ask "why is old Christopher Hitchens kissing that girl?"') and shall now cease and desist.