“Everyone's parents argue-that just happens in any relationship-but parents shouldn't fight in front of their kids.”

“Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.”

“Kids need to know their parents love them. Their parents don’t need to be alive for that to happen.”

“There is a separation between parents and children that shouldn't be breached when the children are young. The parents' adult follies are private. They're disturbing and hard to understand. But eventually the kids wise up, the follies start leaking out, and the parents are revealed in all their flawed humanity. Dad and I were about to cross that boundary for good.”

“When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear.”

“I honestly never once heard them fight. They yelled at us kids all the time, but never at each other. My siblings and I joke to this day about how the reason we have trouble in relationships is because we never learned how to fight from our parents.”