A man who indulges in parenthood for the first time at the age of fifty-four deserves all he gets. ― Raymond Chandler

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And his expression, now. I realized right then -- how disappointed you could be when you were all in with someone. When you cared so deeply. How your heart could break, so precisely and quickly. ― Maurene Goo

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I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

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I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Sons are born to make their fathers better men.― Mekael Shane

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If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.- Dwayne Johnson

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Most parents think that the commands they give their children are merely suggestions wrapped with lovingness. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.- Mitch Hedberg

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He was all iron outside, but all father within. ― Hall Caine

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