As a tribute to Father’s Day, found some literary quotes that I hope will be a creative inspiration to you as you continue writing…

1. I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. ~Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum.
2. It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.  ~Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird.
3. At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren’t listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don’t see how your gestures already mirror his; you don’t see him in the way you hold your body, in the way you sign your name. You don’t hear his whisper in your blood. ~Salman Rushdie, East, West: Stories.
4. Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother’s face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died. ~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games.
5. The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat. ~Robert Frost
6. All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye. ~Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye.
7. “There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.” ~George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings.

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