The Perfect Son Quotes

“If you’re too busy worrying about what might be, you forget to enjoy what you have.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Failure was always an option, because the knowledge that you couldn’t win every time gave you the courage to try.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“What-ifs multiplied like a combat-ready squad of Star Trek Tribbles: cute, furry, and armed with bazookas.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“No one is responsible for your happiness but you.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“No one is perfect . . . that’s why pencils have erasers.    —author unknown”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Mistakes are human. Learn from them, but leave regret where it belongs—in the past. It’s the future we need to pay heed to.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Seems to me you always have a mind to focus on finding fault, not celebration.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“the things you’re too frightened to face are the things that grow into monsters?”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“My Chemical Romance, “I Don’t Love You” New Order, “Bizarre Love Triangle” Coheed and Cambria, “The Afterman” U2, “Ordinary Love” Coheed and Cambria, “Pearl of the Stars” Tears for Fears, “Woman in Chains” (with Oleta Adams) U2, “Every Breaking Wave” The Arcadian Project, “Hey There, Pretty Girl” Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart” Everything But The Girl, “I Don’t Understand Anything” The Airborne Toxic Event, “The Fifth Day” Gnarls Barkley, “Smiley Faces” The Airborne Toxic Event, “This Is London” My Chemical Romance, “Planetary (GO!)” U2, “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own” The Airborne Toxic Event, “The Way Home” Coldplay, “Fix You” The Strokes, “Reptilia” Simple Minds, “When Two Worlds Collide” The Smashing Pumpkins, “1979” The Arcadian Project, “The Windmill” Leonard Cohen, “Anthem” My Chemical Romance, “The Only Hope for Me Is You” Heaven 17, “Let Me Go” (extended version) Our Last Night, “Skyfall” My Chemical Romance, “The Kids from Yesterday” The Airborne Toxic Event, “The Graveyard near the House” Green Day, “Troublemaker” James Taylor, “Carolina in My Mind” Simple Minds, “Waterfront” Muse, “Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption)” U2, “Kite” The Arcadian Project, “The Disappearance Symphony: One Last Question”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“That’s what best friends did, figured out life when you couldn’t.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“I have a feeling you’re someone who will appreciate that we grow the real beauties here,” Eudora said. “Not the gaudy sun perennials that want to flash everything they’ve got like cheap hookers. You have to look hard to find the pockets of beauty in my garden.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.    —Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Get the oxygen and the AED. Call the”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“No one is perfect . . . that’s why pencils have erasers.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Life isn’t perfect, and people sure as heck aren’t. We’re broken and messy and a hornet’s nest of contradictions.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Behavioral contagion, Harry. Remember the mantra: this is not my stress.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“No one is perfect . . . that’s why pencils have erasers. —author unknown What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. —Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“His heart, well, it’s big enough to feed the world, the way I see it.” “My”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“In my world, one doesn’t discuss mental health. One pretends life is lovely and suffers silently.” “It’s”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“The school parking lot was a quagmire of potential disaster: student drivers backing out too quickly, little kids running to cars without paying attention, mothers tearing in late. The stuff of nightmares. “How”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Sammie looked at Harry and they both giggled. And in that shared moment, nothing mattered beyond the school rule about personal displays of affection. And his almost first kiss. When could he try again?”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Rightly or wrongly, she believed her life was in danger. Which left Felix facing the real ghoul under the bed—his true self.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Passengers in the row behind muttered the Lord’s Prayer. Ella, however, had no plans to make her final peace with God or die in the clouds. She had a battle to conduct on the ground, after she’d cleared baggage claim at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Failure was always an option, because the knowledge that you couldn’t win every time gave you the courage to try. Effort”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Our son is a brilliant teenager who needs to learn independence. You baby—” “He’s a remarkable person who should be full of insecurity but isn’t—partly because I work hard to bolster him, to praise him, to show him what an incredible person he is, to reinforce that his challenges give him strength, not weakness. I never stop, Felix.” “I”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Did you know that after two teenage boys share a bedroom, the stench is worse than when Saint John’s gun dog rolls in manure?” “Welcome”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Amazing how people saw what they wanted to see without taking the time to look.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Life isn’t perfect, and people sure as heck aren’t. We’re broken and messy and a hornet’s nest of contradictions. And”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“Catalpa.” He”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son

“One pretends life is lovely and suffers silently.”
― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son