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Dad Quotes

Seven of the best book quotes from Dad
  1. #1
    “‘Sailing,’ he liked to joke, ‘is the fine art of getting wet and becoming ill, while going nowhere slowly at great expense.’”
    author
    Ben Sherwood
    book
    The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
    character
    Dad
    concepts
    sailingartBeing Wetsicknessmoving slowexpensive
  2. #2
    “‘Dive for dreams,’ he used to say, quoting the e. e. cummings poem. ‘And live by love.’”
    author
    Ben Sherwood
    person
    E. E. Cummings
    book
    The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
    characters
    Tess CarrollDad
    concepts
    dreamspoemsloveliving with love
  3. #3
    “I don’t know where you picked up that slacker attitude, but you certainly didn’t learn it at home. Probably from the bad influences up here.”
    author
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    book
    Speak
    characters
    DadMelinda Sordino
    concepts
    indifferenceattitudebad influences
  4. #4
    “Deprived of Victim, Mom and Dad holler at each other. I turn up the music to drown out the noise.”
    author
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    person
    Parents
    book
    Speak
    characters
    Melinda SordinoDadMom
    concepts
    fightingisolationescape
  5. #5
    “He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat […] Who knew what her mom saw in him; Eleanor’s dad was messed-up looking, too.”
    author
    Rainbow Rowell
    book
    Eleanor & Park
    characters
    EleanorRichieDadMom
    concepts
    stepdadrat
  6. #6
    “‘When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.’”
    author
    Donna Tartt
    book
    The Goldfinch
    character
    Dad
    concepts
    homesickmoonconstanthomesickness
  7. #7
    ″... she knew that nothing could hurt her while Pa and Jack were there.”
    author
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    book
    Little House on the Prairie
    characters
    JackPaDad
    concepts
    safetydogsprotection

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