"A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day."

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Source : Sarah Ruhl (2010). “The Clean House and Other Plays”, p.435, ReadHowYouWant.com

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Father Quotes

“Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.”
“Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest!”

Source : Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.213, University of Virginia Press
“The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.”
“You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.”
“These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.”
“What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?”
“True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.”
“All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.”

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