David Berman Quotes

My father was just an evil man.

The real demon in my life is my father.

The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.

My stepfather was a very nasty individual.

I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.

The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

A 'Clean Bandit' is a total bastard!

I can't have my family in my life because they are abusive, and I don't have control over that. There is an abusive culture in my family, and I have to turn away from it.

I built up so much hatred for my parents, like so much anger for the life they had given me.

I was abused my family was the "brady bunch

My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you?

If the White House is politicizing the war, that's nothing short of despicable. For Karl Rove to politicize the issue is an affront to the integrity of the entire United States military.

My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.

My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

Seeing your parents fall apart is really rough. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

My stepfather was fond of letting me know, quote, 'I ain't your... damn daddy.' That was something that was painful, to put it mildly.

Divorce is hard, and it takes a lot out of you.

I was a no-good bastard.

My father took my mother, me, and my brother from Sicily to New York. He got us one-way tickets but booked himself a return flight. He dumped us with my mother's parents, who had just arrived from Italy, and abandoned us. That was 1986. I didn't see or speak to him for another 12 years. That's cruel.

I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.

In the Dolezal family, you couldn't always count on your parents to keep you safe.

For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There's no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents.