Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

Acheron kissed her lightly on the cheek. "Rest. We'll be back when he needs you." He watched her climb into bed before he took his nephew down to his room. "Well, it appears to be just the two of us, little one. What say you we get naked, drunk and find us some wenches?" The baby actually smiled up at him as if he understood. Acheron nodded. "So that's it, eh? Barely a month old and you're already lecherous. You are your father's son.

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

I was so determined not to pass on to my children what I perceived to be the faults of my upbringing.

As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name.

I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.

I think in any father-son relationship, there's going to be times you say, 'Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.'

I've been compared to my dad my whole life. That pressure I've learned to deal with.

The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family had come together and come apart - sorting all that out, you know, issues of personal identity.

I am my father's son. My sticking to my guns and doing it my way, and standing firm - that's definitely from him. And the music side, I was so lucky to have a dad that was as cool as he was.

When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.

When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.

What is the son but an extension of the father?

I think the father-son dynamic is interesting. I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their dad, and I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their son.

For a moment, I was captivated as I studied them side by side. My mother: the perfect picture of guardian excellence and decorum. My father: always capable of achieving his goals, no matter how twisted the means. Uneasily, I began to understand how I’d inherited my bizarre personality.

He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.

What people can't possibly imagine is what it's like to have two presidents who have a relationship as father and son.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.