“A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life. ”
“Have you ever observed that when a man gets a son he takes all the credit, and when he gets a daughter he blames his wife? And if they do not breed at all, we say it is because her womb is barren. We do not say it is because his seed is bad.”
“To her you're Jocelyn's daughter. But I'll always be Valentine's son”
“it is as if i were dead, and this is the after-life, her in the sunlight, beyond the edge of the world, among the sons and daughters of the sea.”
“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”