{"quotes":[{"text":"You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.","author":"Sue Monk Kidd","tags":["daughters","mothers","secrets"],"id":6746,"author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd"},{"text":"Daddy,' I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. 'I love you.'Just when I was sure he was asleep, the one corner of his mouth lifted in a smile. 'I knew that,' he murmured. 'Always knew that.","author":"Morgan Matson","tags":["daddies","daughters","fathers","love"],"id":12905,"author_id":"Morgan+Matson"},{"text":"My mother... She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["daughters","growing-up","love","mothers"],"id":28608,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"No matter how old you are, you always want your mother’s love and acceptance. I guess I’m hoping one day I’ll get it back.","author":"Hilary Grossman","tags":["daughters","mother","mother-s-love","mothers-and-daughters","mothers-love"],"id":29694,"author_id":"Hilary+Grossman"},{"text":"Nefret was still pouting when Emerson helped her into the carriage. Emerson did not observe the pout. He would not have observed it (men being what they are) even if something had not distracted him.","author":"Elizabeth Peters","tags":["daughters","girls","men","mothers-and-daughters","oblivious","obliviousness"],"id":44419,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Peters"},{"text":"To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["atheism","daughters","death","fatherhood","fathers","god","mortality","religion","yeats"],"id":55165,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"The Truth is, we all get lost as we try to find our way. Perhaps the key is to stop, take a look around and enjoy the scenery as we go.","author":"JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon","tags":["daughters","encouragement","finding-yourself","getting-lost","girls","inspiration"],"id":69213,"author_id":"JaTawny+Muckelvene+Chatmon"},{"text":"He had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle of his life, he found it. It was in the face of the love of his life, his daughter. She who had never blushed before, now blushed. And in that blushing, he knew, was the existence of God. That was the day her father learned what God was. God was pure beauty, God was his daughter’s face when she blushed.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["belief-in-god","blush","blushing","blushing-girl","dad","dad-and-daughters","daddy","daughter","daughters","existence-of-god","father-and-daughter","fathers-and-daughters","parental-love","parents","parents-and-children","parents-and-kids","poetry","from-novel"],"id":70955,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.","author":"Rasmenia Massoud","tags":["daughters","mothers"],"id":74442,"author_id":"Rasmenia+Massoud"},{"text":"What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["daughters","fathers","moon","stars"],"id":77880,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":92,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}