Amity Gaige Quotes

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

My mother did what many men do. She left.

I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay... but I'm not going to.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.

All my life, I had this idea that if I could unravel the mystery that was my mother, then I could help save her. But it didn't really work. We were close, but she struggled with mental illness and alcoholism, and it was rough at times.

Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

My parents got married when I was 12.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

My children were the center of my life.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.