"But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had given her life, and then taken every scrap of joy or freedom, and even now that he was dead, all he had left her with was a deep, abiding hatred for what she was."

-- Brenna Yovanoff

#Monday Quotes #Father Quotes #Taken Quotes

“That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both”
“Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.”
“Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on”

Source : Camryn Manheim (1999). “Wake Up, I'm Fat!”, Broadway
“You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.”

Source : Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.32, Penguin
“We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.”
“Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.”
“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.”

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