#34. Parenting Quote of the Week
September 16, 2007 by kate baggott
Filed under Mental Health
…it was the daughters who really made Larry laugh.
They said that girls were supposed to be the quiet ones but, whoever they were, they hadn’t a clue. His gang, Jesus, there hadn’t been a minute, not a second’s peace in the house since the eldest, Stephanie, was born, but especially since the other three came after Laurence.
– Larry in the short story, “Guess Who’s Coming for the Dinner” in The Deportees and Other Stories by Roddy Doyle.
