Quotes About Patricide

#1. I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide ... My mom was actually jealous.

David Sedaris

#2. I live absolutely like an oyster.

Gustave Flaubert

#3. I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it.

Heidi Klum

#4. The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Why can't life be like this? Human beings in all their magnificence. Working to find that moment of pride. That one second of excellence at being alive...The feeling of belonging not just to oneself but to the entire universe.

Ron Jones

#6. Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all.

Stephen Baxter

#7. All women may not be beautiful but every woman can look beautiful.

Amit Kalantri

#8. Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

King Krule

#9. Some families are so sick, so twisted, the only way out is for someone to die.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#10. An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

Willa Cather

#11. Around midnight he'd decided there was but a single course of action: He must remove her ovaries to quell the madness.

Peter Geye

#12. Parked in the school lot, I grab their two backpacks, which I swear weigh more than they do, get out, and open the back door like a chauffeur. Who am I kidding? Not like a chauffeur. I am a chauffeur. No one moves.

Lisa Genova