Beverly Cleary Quotes

My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you?

I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.

My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

My parents separated when I was nine, but my father was always around, and he still follows me now. He is always sending me messages.

My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.

My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

My dad was in my life, and he was actually a very positive influence on me in my life. He was always there. He was a great dad. But my parents divorced when I was 5, so I grew up in a single-parent home.

The word 'divorce' wasn't foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of kids whose parents got divorced, and it wasn't seen as this terrible thing. Maybe that's why I believed what my father told me and Reina that day: that everything would be okay. But it wasn't.

I can distinctly remember being the only boy in my class whose parents had separated.

My mum and dad got divorced when I was nine and my brother was seven, and all they strived to do was to make sure we weren't affected.