The Eros Of Parenthood Quotes

“It’s not God I want, it’s someone in skin!" a child once cried out to his mother. With an almost unbearable honesty, he expressed the extravagant—and even sacrilegious—nature of parent-child love. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me," God boomed in the desert. But parents and children do have a way of filling the universe with each other.”
― Noelle Oxenhandler, The Eros Of Parenthood: Explorations In Light And Dark