“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.” 

― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven