Richelle Mead Quotes

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.

From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.

If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

I think I would make a good father. I'd be a disciplinarian.

My father gave me discipline.

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom.

Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood.

The parents are pissed, but the kids love it.

I went to my father's at night. He spoke of poor John [Boswell's brother] with disgust. I was shocked and said, "He's your son, and God made him." He answered very harshly, "If my sons are idiots, can I help it?

Asil has appointed himself my guardian?" asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself. "He was bored, he told me," said his father. He gave Charles a small smile. "I have given him a job so he doesn’t get bored again.

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.

I remember most clearly when a teenage Christopher spat in my face. He said, "I hate you". It's pretty hard to overlook that. I couldn't.