"He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father." -- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
(Dad would have been 84 today. After sixteen years I still catch myself thinking, about some cool thing I've read or heard, , "Dad will get a kick out of th-- ... oh, right.")