Dreamer's Daughter Quotes

“I didn't know what to say. All this time, I'd been trying to get my father to be normal. If he were the father I sometimes wished he was, he wouldn't be all those other things I loved about him. And he wouldn't have taught me all that he had: to dream, to dare, to bounce back no matter what. To never take no for an answer and to always look for that rainbow. I would be forever grateful for those lessons. As I would be forever grateful that he was my father.”
― Lori Thicke, Dreamer's Daughter: Surviving My Childhood and Raising My Father

“Yet he seemed sad, as if he couldn't see his future at all. I realized then that it took more than a view over a limitless horizon to make you feel like anything was possible. You needed someone to believe in you. I may not have had a normal life, whatever that was, but at least I had a parent who believed in me.”
― Lori Thicke, Dreamer's Daughter: Surviving My Childhood and Raising My Father

“My father never spent much time thinking of ways things could go wrong. He only thought of ways they would go right.”
― Lori Thicke, Dreamer's Daughter: Surviving My Childhood and Raising My Father

“Let them go rub salt in their ass!”
― Lori Thicke, Dreamer's Daughter: Surviving My Childhood and Raising My Father