单词 | daddy |
例句 | My daddy remembered riding his horse out there to see the wreck. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Boy oh boy. You just like your daddy. Ready to fight, and I ain’t hardly said anything to you.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Here I am one of the few kids I know whose daddy didn’t skip out on him, and he didn’t even make it to thirty. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She was scared, and afraid to tell the boy’s name, because she figured that her daddy just might go off and kill him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, if you’re lying about your daddy beating you, you better scram right after breakfast ’cause my gramps is taking you straight back home.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He would say often, “I been to school three years in my life. In Slaten, Texas, times was hard, and I had to help my daddy on the farm.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, her mind slipped sideways again, and she imagined he was her daddy coming to offer her a hand out of her stuffed-animal cave after her mother left. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I swear my granddaddy didn’t look more’n eight or ten years older than my daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I think if she loved my daddy she wouldn’t go messing around with somebody else.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mornin’, Sweet Pea,” she said, using the name my daddy calls me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z She bit her lip, I guess to keep from saying anything against Grandpa or Miss Love that would upset my daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Everyone always said I looked just like my daddy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Folks always say my daddy is a godly man, but he don’t leave much room for things that ain’t a sin. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z My daddy died when I was four, and it was all so strange and hectic and upsetting. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “You kinda little to be talking about somebody’s daddy.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, unkindly, “Ask your daddy to buy you an Air Condition!” and he hooted with delight at his own wit and timing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Having already come too close to losing something that day, I decided to do what my daddy always did. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Luis said, “Our daddy thinks that’s great. But he doesn’t worry about the insurance and stuff. Do you guys have your parents’ permission to do this?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you’d better call your daddy and tell him you’re not going to be able to make that train. I’m afraid we might be needing you around here for the next little while.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “You stop talking about her daddy,” I said. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “She came in on the train without a mama or a daddy, didn’t she? It was all the talk at the five-and-dime.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He walked off to urinate and when he came back said, “My daddy passed through here, I think. He said it was forest then. When he came back, it had all been cleared by settlers.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Which was what my daddy had in mind. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I ride on my daddy’s shoulders, dandng high in the night, with my feet tucked back under my father’s arms, holding to his shoulder blades. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell me about Lice and your daddy’s boat,” she said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z When Grandpa wouldn’t even put in one bathroom, my daddy had put in two—one on the porch upstairs and another on the porch near the kitchen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But she so thick in what she doing, she don’t know her daddy’s listening. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Your mama, your daddy—they were buried under the ground, but they’re stars now, girl, stars beneath our feet.’” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z She dreamed that her daddy would find his way back to happy and that she’d be the one to help him get there. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Oh Lord, yes. I remember these candies. My daddy used to eat them.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Bug, did you see any love being passed from this boy to his daddy?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Unless a man has a plan where my daddy can make money, he’s not interested.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z When they were laughing and teasing about the baby, Ty'ree didn't care if it ever came, just so long as his mama and daddy could keep on laughing and having a good time. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Tobias and his daddy always talk bout money like they still got a lot. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your daddy doesn’t drink, does he?” she said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Once Ty'ree took me to Central Park and we watched the sun go down over the lake my daddy got hypothermia in. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z “I reckon,” he said at last, “it must be his daddy’s name—less they just given him that name in the hospital up North after...she was dead.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “They worked like dogs tending your granddaddies’ and daddies’ places in Phippsburg so they could pay right for every nail. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I couldn’t find my daddy, and that hurt a lot. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see what my daddy saw in her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z When we got all set, their daddy said, “Okay, now, boys, walk the mule back till the rope gets tight.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A small, still place where there might be one or two of my daddy’s footprints left. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He sat down next to me and leaned into me the same as I was leaning into my daddy. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “I hope you stay around for awhile, girl. Even his daddy can’t talk him out of much these days.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z But as Ophie thought about it and replayed the sight of her daddy standing at the end of her bed and how he later faded into sparkles, she started to feel a little bit better. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Focus on the floor because I ain't got time to get stunted on by a whole bunch of rich girls whose daddies own stuff. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z My daddy got him back to talking about the highwaymen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I know who she is. I know who her daddy was. And his daddy before him.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Ophie swore she could hear her daddy’s voice, even though he was still back at the house, waiting on whatever had put such a fright in him. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “I bet your daddy’s up there with Pa and them,” she whispered from behind the palm-frond fan she was fluttering like a house afire. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “When he walked away after sassing Mr. Crane and my daddy, he said it’d take an explosion to make us see.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The strangeness of her daddy’s appearance and the late hour conspired to sink a peculiar anxiousness into Ophie’s bones. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He wanted to be in the cab with his daddy, but instead he was in the back with five men he did not know and Wally, who was in the grade above him and mean. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “I guess you know my daddy doesn’t really approve of him.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “If your father died, they gave you a peach pit and put you in a circle of all the men. The man you gave the pit to would be your new daddy.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So she just smiled as the older woman spoke, and tried not to miss her daddy. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “My daddy’s not here. He’s out at the sugar camp,” Marly said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Mama always told me the real alcoholics, like my daddy, drink the homemade stuff because it’s stronger. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Grandma Sands, said, “What are all them sirens doing? Lord, has the whole world gone mad today? Where’s your momma and daddy?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z At some point my daddy walked toward the back hall and was gone a while. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Of course Mrs. Weidenbach knew we were right behind her, crabbing her act with an older settler than her daddy. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Something weirder than my daddy not being here: my best friend is obsessed with my mama. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z “I hadn’t realized I hadn’t been in here before. Wait, I take that back. I was definitely in here when it was your daddy’s room.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “My daddy taught me. He nearly made the pros.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “My daddy never laid a hand on me.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “Carlos acted like he was Lisa’s daddy. When I got locked up, he moved y’all in with him and blocked my calls. Even took her to a divorce attorney.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “You rich kid now, your daddy rich rich man. Big house, big tree, now even we got houselady. Nice big yard for you. I pay all cash.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Your daddy’s been gone for almost twenty years.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess I thought it would be like visiting Constantine, where friendly colored people waved and smiled, happy to see the little white girl whose daddy owned the big farm. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z By the time they left, I understood: my daddy was never coming home. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z My pretend daddy read it and said, “Uh-uh-uh, well, you got to give them credit, you wouldn’t expect that they’d have the nerve to come down here and tell the truth.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Between my daddy and me, that’s two hundred years of living that got me all the way to where I am today. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I like your daddy real fine,” Palmer said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa Blakeslee bragged a lot about my daddy being such a dandy worker. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Finally she said my daddy might could talk Grandpa out of it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But since Constantine had her daddy’s blood in her, her baby come out a high yellow. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “This stuff is between you and Byrd and that flighty daddy of yours...” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Then he said to me, “When we get down to the station, I’ll call your daddy and let him deal with you.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to appear prideful,” she said, “but my daddy was a very rich man. A very rich man.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Well, and now her daddy had married Miss Love—maybe partly to spite Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I felt like I was floating in my daddy’s world of summer, and hide-and-seek, and fishing when I opened the paper and read the greeting. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z After we pulled it up on shore, their daddy took the mule to fetch the wagon. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ophie asked, setting aside for the moment the strange memory of her daddy from the night before. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Ruby comes through the front door and wraps both of her arms around her daddy’s legs and stands on his feet. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “And my daddy knows that he was in jail.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know about that. The kids aren’t playing, they’re out working. I remember my daddy and my granddaddy talking about getting out of school to fight the freezes.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your daddy told me about it a month or more ago. Said if anything happened to him, I was to get the letter out and read it to the fam’ly.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, but I am her daddy, boy, and court says I been rehabilitated. Court says I get visitation rights. Court says you ain’t got nothin’ to say about that!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “This looks like the very same spot where I caught that nice mutton with your daddy, gotta be twenty-five, thirty years ago.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Well, he might be happy now, but if I know anything about your daddy I expect you’re gonna be having problems sitting down before this night’s over. “ Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Then he said, “Yore daddy says you go’n stop by Temp’s place on the way back and see Mary Toy.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Now, son,” said the deputy, “stand back there. We’re just going to give your daddy a ride to town.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It means a season of celebration, and that's how me and your daddy felt, like dancing and raising our hands up thanking God for giving us you. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z It was just like Ophie’s daddy had done, what now felt like a lifetime ago. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z A lump welled up in her throat from nowhere, just like it always did whenever she thought of her daddy. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “I get it. You ran off ’cause of what your daddy said about your mother. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shucks, my daddy never laid a hand on me in his life.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “Or maybe”—he turned to Johnny Ray—“her daddy too busy votin’ and such to be teachin’ manners to his daughter.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z "I've been waiting for you to recognize me, daddy," a voice said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I was looking in the face of every old white man who passed me, like, Are you my daddy? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We both look a little bit like her in that picture, but I'm much darker—like Mama said my daddy was. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z “My daddy’s a cop,” he had said as he stood above Moss, his hands balled in fists. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Nobody never liked for nothin’ when your daddy was around, I can tell you that!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if she’d try to sell hers and the baby’s interest in the store to my daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I told Lulabelle the truth. I told her, ‘Your daddy didn’t die. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Going to be the spit and image of his daddy when I rode him North in ’61. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z But miracle of miracles, Audrey did not ask me where my daddy was. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z After my daddy said a prayer, she draped two more of the checked feed sacks over his body and then, hesitating only a moment, covered his face. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z All around the school grounds were the towers that his daddy called derricks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Listen, you obnoxious little shrimp, you do what your daddy tells you to do!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z See if you can find daddy’s army dog tags and wear them whenever possible. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z She loves my daddy, and the money is from him. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And sometimes, late at night, Charlie would just start talking, telling me stories about how things were before I was born—memories of him and our older brother, Ty'ree, and my mama and daddy together. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z But what if her mama answer, or her daddy? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z True story, Grand daddy asked the nurse if they had a ladder. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Your daddy’s probably out back at the track if you’re looking for him.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Baby Girl, she looking at the door her daddy slammed, she looking at her mama frowning down at her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I couldn’t help it; I sat up and threw my arms around my daddy’s neck. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I would just be doing what my daddy said. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry, daddy. I’m going to watch out. Why don’t you get off with me and let’s shoot up this town together.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z That his daddy had left him when he was small, that his mama worked as a lunchroom lady at the same school where June taught. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At least a dozen daddy longlegs were arranged along the bottom of the cool porcelain tub, quiet, quivering when the light blared on and her shadow fell. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our daddies dug coal out with picks, Homer,” Mr. Dubonnet said, back to being calm again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Clutching her arms around her daddy’s waist, she hid her face against his chest. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “It’s a hard business. But if you’re hooked, you’re hooked. I was hooked by my granddaddy and my daddy set the hook.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “And this here’s my daddy,” he said, smiling at a little old man who came around the house leading a big roan horse that was saddled up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It’s huge that these two gangs are in the same room together, and for my daddy to be the one behind it? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “I know your daddy. I know you too.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tidings is going to be helping your daddy. He’s going to help where he’s most needed. You are most needed right here, with Peach...” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t have a gnat’s chance after Loma stormed into the store and gave her daddy down the country, blessing him out right in front of Papa, Uncle Camp, me, and two customers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Cain’t you just see my daddy and Uncle Camp and Cudn Hope if you walked in the store shaved? They’d take you for a stranger and sell you a mule collar or something.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z So my daddy, who had just turned 18 eightteen eighteen years old, got up early before daylight and walked all the way to Spindale to town. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “You came in my daddy’s business, so I am minding my business.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “She corralled me downstairs, right in front of my daddy and yours!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Senator Whitworth leans over to Daddy and says, “I came from nothing, you know. Jefferson County, Mississippi. My daddy dried peanuts for eleven cents a pound.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He told me he had lots of candy in his daddy’s barn. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “It’s just, you smell like your daddy and your uncle used to smell. Oh, hand me that bag.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Not because she was cute, but because she danced with Boj angles, who was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was our daddy. I think you always put up with him better than any of us. But he was mean as a snake. There’s nothing he got that he didn’t deserve.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Baby, the bottom of the bottle was your daddy’s second home,” she’d say, shaking her head. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He told me, “Well, you and your daddy sure have one beautiful machine.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “A daddy is supposed to keep his kids safe. He’s supposed to protect them. That’s all there is to it. That’s the truth. And I couldn’t help my boy.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Cause I know your daddy ain’t nothing but a drunk like mine.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Besides keeping the store’s ledgers, my daddy took a lot of the buying trips to Atlanta and Baltimore and New York City. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z So my daddy started humming something and Otis started picking it out on his guitar, and Winn' Dixie wagged his tail and lay back down underneath Gloria’s chair. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Great—I can't even get a Happy Meal unless my daddy or mommy buys it for me. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “I guess your daddy would have to bum premium in that big Packard, wouldn’t he? I don’t think those big engines can run on ethyl gasoline.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “All right, but you ask your daddy. I’ll be by here first thing in the morning.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was your daddy’s hero. Sometimes I think he went into the army just so that Ernest wouldn’t have to. He took the hit.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Burke is at school, and Burkes daddy and granddaddy are at Burke Allen Machinery. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She’d blame Momma and Uncle Carlos that their daddy went back to his wife and other kids. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z We stepped inside and Howard’s daddy looked up from his workbench in the corner. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z My daddy, Benny Rachpaul, had bought me these sneakers when I turned twelve over the summer. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “Your daddy wouldn’t like that. He don’t like dumb peoples.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z "He found you. You was wandering around with your eyes shut, and he went and got his daddy to help carry you home. What happened, Alfred?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while Grandpa was back in the War with his daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z "Your daddy called me when you took your first step," Uncle Tony, peeling the paper from his cupcake, explained in the middle of an I-remember-when session. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Even before I had a chance to think I said, “You owe me a nickel, my daddy plays a giant fiddle and his name is Herman E. Calloway.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z I think my daddy used to listen to jazz records, but Mama doesn’t play them anymore. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z I had met Aunt Cecile only once, when I was real small and Mama had taken us all down south for our daddy's uncle's funeral. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z “Hush, sugah, and let your daddy have his fun. Did you leave out the cookies and the milk for Santa Claus?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom said her mama helped her daddy put his coat on while his winged arm healed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Your daddy and me come from the same part of Gary Holler,” she said as she cooked. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Time Out said, “The mean mommy or daddy.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Or maybe you only fight when there’s a river to dive into, so your daddy can protect you.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z But I want to be able to step through that screen and wrap my arms around my daddy. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z As Grandpa and my daddy rushed out, followed by a bunch of customers, Miss Love screamed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “That I’m the closest thing to glory he’ll ever see on God’s green earth. What does, your daddy say about you?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “What? I’m sorry to hear that, Bud. So you stay with your daddy?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z How my daddy ever got hooked up with a preacher, I can’t say, as he’s not a churchgoing man. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Well,” she said thoughtfully, “maybe what you’re looking for is not so much the mark your daddy made on this town, but the mark the town made on your daddy.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z His grandma had always said, “Ask your daddy the time, and he tells you how to make a clock.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “You ain’t my daddy, and you don’t deserve to be hers!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The mayor sits up there showing people he’s big daddy and in control. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She’s made it halfway through that trunk and the tree’s starting to sway a little, drunk as my daddy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He was tall and thin the way Ty'ree said my daddy had been. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z But it didn’t matter, because her daddy raised one hand in return, smiled at her, and disappeared into sparkling sunlight. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Mary Willis, your daddy wants Will to go to Cornelia next week,” he began. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Right from the beginning, he was a poor, scrawny little blighter, always weeping during his first week in the dormitory because he wasn’t at home with his mommy and daddy anymore. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z She said, “Do you miss your daddy? Do you want to call him?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I move up one a her fingers, chant what my daddy used to say to me on my birthdays, “Three little soldiers, come out the doe, two say stop, one say go.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I ventured that I had watched a daddy longlegs. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For a moment she thought back to her secret hideout in the woods, the one her daddy had helped her build. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Not your mother, not your sisters, and your daddy appreciates it least of all.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or if people like Max Smitherman and Johnny Ray Johnson are gonna have children who hate us ’cause their daddies do.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z And maybe once in a while she sees in her head my daddy running toward her on a half frozen lake. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z And Miz Africa, learn what words you can, but learn to keep your mouf shut, ’cause Clay, that hellhound, got less patience than his daddy!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not just any fisherman. My daddy. And he don’t fish no more. Roanoke River too far away, plus there ain’t been no real bites in a long time.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “I built her myself. Started shortly after your grandmother passed on. It was this boat that carried me through those terrible times. That, and raising your daddy and his brother and sister.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z But then pretty soon he calling everybody including hisself Mama, and calling his daddy Mama too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Isn’t that something? Guess your folks are doing well and your daddy’s happy.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you just go tell yer daddy that both me and Viola will be along in a minute. Okay?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “My daddy and Barnabas Saint worked a field two or three miles down the road owned by this man with the last name Bristol,” Grandpop continued. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “You know your daddy. Get whatever you want, baby.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “One day, baby, you gonna wake up, and your voice will be as deep as your daddy’s!” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Nan once told me that my mom’s heart had been broken by my daddy’s death. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “It isn’t Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, or Carnegie. Your daddy didn’t invent Coca-Cola and I didn’t recently discover King Solomon’s mines.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mommy and daddy were gone, lost forever. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z The boy said there wasn’t much water in San Antonio, but his daddy was going to take them just as soon as he could. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Her momma is a teacher at some private school, and her daddy is an electrician. Senior, I got his card. He can fix that light on the back porch for us.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There were other questions, too, like what the relation was between her and the little white kids that she watched and also between her and her “daddy,” who plain as day was not her daddy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I sell laundry bags and socks and everything and Lloyd used to follow me everywhere I go, ’cause he knew his daddy would take care of him. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt the same way about the memory of her daddy. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z We lived in a split-level house with the den, my daddy's home office, and Mrs. Baylor’s room and bath on the upper level. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He said it was because people call my daddy the “King of the Garden.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z His daddy was smiling, and Beto just knew that he was going to hug him, but then the preacher came up and started shaking Henry’s hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’m your daddy, girl. I’ll look at your rash if I want to! How can I tell if you’re getting better? Now take off that shirt!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Starnes turned to the boys and then said, "I don't think too highly of that boy's daddy." An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “My daddy was a Scotsman. I'm a Georgian.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Maybe then I would have known a long time ago about Ty'ree being at that lake with my daddy. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z “How’d your daddy know it was a girl?” asked Smiley, suspicioning I had made up more of it than I really had. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I’m mighty scared of her daddy,” Stella admitted. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Her old daddy wore a forage cap and a decoration from the Grand Army of the Republic, and he seemed to have no idea where he was. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I knew my daddy would get it for me because he said he would. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z It has my daddy’s name written in big, wiggly letters on the front of the envelope. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “By the way, do me a favor: if you want to play overprotective daddy with me, just say so.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “My daddy’s in jail and my mama won’t get out of bed,” I said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He worked with his daddy, who was a blacksmith, and he had big arms and powerful shoulders. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t see how. When my daddy died last year this April it costed one hundred and fifty dollars. ’ The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She was going to be a doctor just like her mommy and daddy! The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z If Jack was supposedly my daddy, why didn’t you try to keep him around? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s Geneva, honey. Will you tell your daddy you saw me? Will you tell him I made you get yourself dry and fed you some toast?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “It’s better than being a little rat who runs squealing to the police or his daddy,” he growled. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She bent close and explained that she was Adele and the man was my mama’s daddy. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z "It's perfect. The only thing is, your daddy got a big ol' head, so I don't know if mine could really squeeze in there with his." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I don’t need no weak little boy can’t say no to his daddy hanging on me. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But if Mama had become Ma’s apprentice all those years ago, would she still have met my daddy—and had me? Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z According to Mama, I get my love of words from my daddy, who wrote tons of stories in his notebooks. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “Hazel! Come to your daddy, Hazel. Hazel!” her father yelled. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z "All right, daddy, you don't have to jump evil on me, here it is; now will you see me?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell me about Lice and your daddy’s boat,” she said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “So, I guess you got the letter my daddy sent telling y’all I was coming.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Said their mama and daddy must have drunk too much hooch before naming those boys. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She looked at me for a second, then said, “Did she come right out and say, ‘Your daddy is Herman E. Calloway,’ Bud?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Barnabas was probably the only person my daddy called a friend. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z When my daddy died three years ago, Momma took to her sewing machine to help her ease the pain. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z “I’m heading her way right now. Her daddy’s got some extra newspapers for me.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Good luck. Your daddy’s done planned out your whole life. You cain’t go off to no shack in the woods; you’re going to the Tuskegee Institute to get learned.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It makes me feel strange inside, knowing my big, strong daddy sees someone else the way I see him. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z “You thought about apologizing? Maybe you go in Monday morning, talk to—” “I ain’t apologizing to no drunk. I never apologized to my daddy and I sure ain’t apologizing to her.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I said, “Yes, sir. But isn’t it just like my luck to come clean across the state to find my daddy and he turns out to be a mean old coot?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “Little Wood, listen me when I tell you that life ain’t nice to nobody. Nobody. Not me, not Mary, not Ernie, not your daddy, not Uncle Wood. Nobody,” Grandpop’s words were slurring. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Wouldn’t the kids be surprised at how handsome our daddy was? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is so. Boys, babies, and somebody’s naked daddy. You must be boy-crazy.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “I believe it has a trailer on it. Go ask your daddy.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Tullahoma was where Momma and Wynn had grown up, where my daddy had gone to high school, and where I was born. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozarts Piano Concerto no. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Ophie was thankful once more that her daddy had passed on. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Or do you want me to talk to your daddy about this?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z So they could have a trophy for taking my daddy from me? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z "Come on, beat me, daddy—you—you big black bruiser. What's taking you so long?" she said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m very sorry, Ophelia. Your daddy has gone to Heaven to be with Jesus. He was a good man, and a brave man, and some cowards in this town killed him because of it.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He said, “Your daddy recalls it as fourteen on the button, and his memory’s likely better than mine.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “You know his daddy got his legs cut off in the mines, don’tcha?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “My daddy’s uncle kept a lot of the colored Lackses as slaves,” Ruby said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But between my daddy being gone and my grandma passing on, I can’t make myself. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Papa wanted to buy the old home place out in Banks County from his daddy and let me run it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Calpurnia,” he said, “what is the order of the spider commonly known as daddy longlegs?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Linda draped an arm around her daughter, softly shook her head: “But they won’t hurt you, honey. They don’t bite—” The house was literally crawling with daddy longlegs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her daddy was steaming mad and of short temper anyhow. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Please send word back through your daddy and let me know if you can come on Fri. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She said, “Uh-uh. My daddy is. Folks say there’s work out west so he’s going to try again.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “Kept digging and digging until I discovered some things about my daddy I’d’ve been better off not knowing.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Our daddy seems taller than anyone else in all of Greenville. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z And Carol Lee’s daddy was teaching her how to drive since Scrappy never would. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “And his daddy taught me how to make birdcages, which is where I think Tessy got her craftiness from.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z This is my daddy I’m talking to, you know? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z She’d get another headache trying to decide all over again what Miss Love wanted out of her daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z His mother, when she had him, was only seventeen—a thin-blooded, capricious girl with red hair and a rich daddy, who ran off with the drummer for Vance Vane and his Musical Swains. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “You were small. Maybe four, maybe five. You held your daddy’s hand so tight when you walked in there. It was a Saturday morning, so the place was real loud, you know?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Why did my daddy really send me here? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Now, you be careful on that train, and don’t you dare share this with any strangers. You take care, Mr. Hiram, and be sure to say my hello to your mama and daddy.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Used to be, my daddy told me, Sistersville was one of the best places you could live in the whole state. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z "I don't know what it was about seeing you move like that. But your daddy loved it. You were definitely his Pancake, but you were also his little sprinter." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “You see this wedding ring? Well, I bought this ring myself. This boy ain’t got no daddy.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z When I saw you, I said, She's the unlucky one come out looking just like her daddy. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “My granddaddy built that house there, my daddy built the fence around it,” said Reverend Griffin. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “Oh, my daddy looooved me. Always said I was his favorite.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Okay, okay, I see you with your daddy’s chain.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I saw Jennifer jump on her daddy’s back while he was weighed down with a giant Eskimo cooler. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s about time he got here, your daddy. I’ve been expecting him hourly. Hourly.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “You go get your daddy the proper way,” I yell. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But with my sister’s heart problem and my no-good drunk daddy, it was up to me and Mama. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I got off the sofa, crept into my daddy’s home office, and eased the door closed behind me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Or maybe she didn't have any kids and doesn't remember my daddy at all. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Once Newcharlie'd caught him asking me questions about my daddy dying. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z "What were those sonsabitches trying to do to you, daddy?" he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z To me he said, “We’ll see you at one, Comfort. I’m coming early to help your daddy.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, my daddy fine’ly got on the telephone and rung up a hospital doctor over in Athens and ast what to do. It was the doctor said get a pig.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Bristol showed up at the yellow house, all in my daddy’s face, askin’ all kinds of questions. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z That I am like my daddy, bad to the core. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It took her daddy forty years to learn to be pleasant. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “All over. My daddy says it’s not down in any map. True places never are.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Whose daddy’s a rebel? Is your daddy a rebel?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, if someone had told her that her daddy’s ghost was sitting next to her and she couldn’t see him, would she believe them? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z My daddy pulled out a kitchen chair and sat down. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He and my daddy left together at dinnertime. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “My daddy don’t care if I talk to girls,” Fornatee said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Like “I once told my militant black daddy about my white boyfriend” kinda boldness. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Shelly tossed me a Coke from the refrigerator and said, “Your daddy’s a curious specimen.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It made me kinda itchy, listening to my daddy keep apologizing to me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z After a few minutes, she says, “I’m sorry my daddy’s mad at you.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z When her daddy found out she was with a child, she had a whipping coming sure enough. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t somewhere else that much. He said that disrespectful line about my daddy.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There was a gingerbread family with a mother, a daddy, and three babies. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z That’s about the only secret my daddy and I have ever shared. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z As he burst into the darkened second-floor bedroom, he said, “Mary Willis, guess what! Your daddy just left in his buggy with Miss Love Simpson! Said they were off to Jefferson to get married!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Considering it, I continued: “Two. Daddy longlegs have eight legs. Therefore, three, daddy longlegs must be spiders.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I don’t have a bowl of beans and rice, but I do have my daddy’s words. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z We had to sneak out of the country, but my daddy stayed behind—disappointed face, maybe not-even-all-that-surprised face. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The dog and the lady lived, but my daddy died of hypothermia. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z His mother having married Granny’s daddy, they grew up together like brother and sister. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “And then her daddy die of typhus, and that was the end of that.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “On the bus. You going to see your daddy?” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Not long after my daddy died, I moved in with Nan, and my momma, well, she just sort of moved on. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I believe it! Look. You got qualms, tell me about them. Because you related? Your daddy’s more related than you are, and it’s his idea.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Declaration took two steps away from me and asked her daddy something I couldn’t hear. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I said that I wondered whether the daddy longlegs was a spider. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As we filed out, he was saying, “Loma? Come here to yore daddy, pet.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “And even after all this time, my daddy’s still not allowed to treat white patients. Like their diseases are high class or something.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Their daddy was laughing and said, “I’m sorry, Johnny. I have to admit, I just couldn’t believe it. I brought this rope more to be funny, but it’s a good thing.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Weidenbach’s daddy slipped free of her, leaped out of his kitchen chair, and jumped off their float. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “There was a brief moment when I looked at you and saw your daddy.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z My own daddy gave her that name years ago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z What was most important to us was who ran the fastest and whose daddy wasn’t a wimp. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She knew—they both knew—that nobody could stand up to their daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Daddy, what’s happening down there? Why does your guitar playing sound so much better than normal? I’m scared. What did you do with my daddy?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z But now her old daddy turned around and looked back. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Marla asks me why nobody in our family came to help me and Momma out when my daddy died. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z Little Minerva, with my daddy's faintly square jaw—but on her, the squareness was softer. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Nunu giggled and twisted as her daddy rubbed his head on her tummy. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z “My daddy caught a huge mess of catfish this morning and we can’t eat it all, so Mama sent you some.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Run, child! Go get his daddy. I’ll help him. I promise. Go!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I turned my back on it and sauntered down the hall and into my daddy's office, where I wasn't supposed to be. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “And her mama and daddy was trapeze artists.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “My daddy said he’d heard the drought hadn’t taken hold here like it had in other parts.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I keep looking at those posters of the people who got killed and looking at my daddy, and my mouth goes so dry, it’s like trying to suck dirt. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes I wonder what happened to that lady and that dog my daddy saved. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z The younger one has all the kids, and you can’t just pray for a daddy to flat-out dump his babies, can you? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I slipped out of my daddy's office and into my room just as Mrs. Baylor was calling me to dinner. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Then there was Grandpa Tweedy, my daddy’s daddy out in Banks County. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And if your daddy got himself a boat, and a building, what does he get you? Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z What my daddy didn’t see was that Grandpa was madder than anybody else in Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Sekani saw cops harass his daddy, but he’s doing so well in school. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “My, but you do look like your daddy.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z All that time, I was listening for Nathan's car or my daddy's or my mother’s—someone's!—to turn the corner and pull up in the driveway or in front of the house. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Your daddy has that old magazine ad on the wall, makin’ fun of Tio Carlos.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His daddy was owned by the Toys is how he got his last name. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Baby Girl look right at me standing behind her daddy, and Mister Leefolt turn around and see me, then turn back round to her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “I can’t think what your daddy’s up to,” she said, still panting from her rush up the stairs. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You went to New York with your daddy one time, didn’t you, Will?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z My daddy, Gideon, had a healthy distrust of most people but he trusted Shady. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “His daddy’s dead now. Last time I seen him, he’d jest set fire to a dog.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “You better go on now,” she said, “before your daddy gets home.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Standing in the front yard in his work clothes was her daddy. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Colin faded away slowly, like Ophie’s daddy had on that long-ago morning, and before she knew it she was crying, releasing the tears she’d held back for what felt like years. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It had been easy to talk to her daddy, because she hadn’t known that he was dead. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z His daddy would take him to the garage and whip him with a rubber hose-pipe trying to beat the girl out a that boy until I couldn’t stand it no more. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He wants Byrd to say more than “Frank can’t make it again” or Aunt Nancy to say, “I remember when your daddy used to behave.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I wished I could of known Grandpa Tweedy’s daddy, but he died of the typhoid in 1867. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Want to see all the ways my mommy and daddy have fun?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “When your daddy was a little boy, and he and I would go different places, people were usually nice to me but crummy to him,” she says. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z She stumbled toward her daddy, arms outstretched, but Grandpa glared at her and she stepped back. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. L. J Weidenbach was there too, in a vast hoopskirt, holding her daddy upright. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They’d already been on the previous Friday to see their daddies, and every one of them had gotten car sick on the way there and back. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He could not wait to see his daddy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Downstairs at Snowberger’s, my daddy deals with death by misadventure, illness, and natural causes galore. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Beholden to my daddy and my brother-in-law for the very clothes on my back and the food in my mouth!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She was definitely a daddy's girl, and he was definitely a daughter's dad. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z The man named Jimmy and the guy who had to be my daddy started whispering. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z These treasures that had sparked Miss Sadie’s stories and led me back to my daddy. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “What do I care about her old black daddy?” asked Maureen. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “But my daddy will be coming to get me before school starts up again,” I said. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Then, as though he had found some answer, he flashed me a magnificent smile, leaned hard against me and whispered, “I bet you dig this, daddy.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t dig the blues, do you, daddy?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And not telling me till now that he'd been there when my daddy went in that lake. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z That maybe it was my own daddy who had landed in this town and found a friend in Ned and made fireworks and blew up a water tower and had people who cared about him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z With his arm around her, my daddy told Grandpa what happened on the train trestle. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Or maybe he was heartsick, hating her for what her daddy did to her but still not willing to give her up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Plus she was a daddy's girl, and he raised her up in martial arts. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z “So you weren’t in the church business when my daddy was here?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “I know your daddy would be ashamed,” Jamison said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "Mummy and daddy and my brother Mike and they say I've got to go with them!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Your daddy wants me to let Reggie Bradley back on the team,” Big Dub said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z My pretend daddy read the signs to my pretend brother and sister and we all sat at a long table with strangers on both sides of us. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z She give me all she had when her daddy died. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “My daddy would tan me if he knew—it’s a good piece from my house—but lots of times I just come to sit and think.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Maybe each of them is thinking their own dream—of daddies and uncles, brothers and cousins one day being free to come on board. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Especially considering that they came with the new house and the new school, the new town and a new daddy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “No ma’am. Just a name my mama and daddy picked out, I guess.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Their mama chatted with folks, asking about their sick grandmas and making on over their babies while their redheaded daddy mopped his face with a handkerchief. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z She shrieked, “You don’t understand, Paulette! My mother could have died! Died—do you hear me? It’d be too late for your daddy to do anything!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z You've got your daddy's easy way, my grandmother says to me, holding the picture of my grandfather in her hands. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “And I think it’s all ’cause of your daddy and that gamblin’ boat.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “The two of them are peas in a pod, but the sheriff is only following his daddy’s lead. He’s mean, but he isn’t smart enough to run this town on his own.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Ain’t no man coming in my house fixing nothing,” Grand daddy says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Oh, Lord no. That would have been even worse. His daddy lived somewhere in New York, I think.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “This is where me, y’all’s daddy and uncle, and just about every other kid in town learned how to shoot, thanks to your old granddaddy here.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But I want the world where my daddy is and don't know why anybody's God would make me have to choose. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Finally she decided to mail it with a note of her own attached—urging caution and directing daddy’s attention to a clipping from Opportunity Magazine. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, my daddy goes back there all the time, y’know, to hunt. And he always talks about how that house is full of birds. Full of ’em. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Sure did. Your Great-Grampy JonJon and Uncle Jack grew up there as well, believe it or not. When his mother died, JonJon moved back to that house and raised my daddy in it.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z “It’s a grub and it’s packed with protein. My daddy said his unit had to survive on these for a whole month once. Who’s going first?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Battle fatigue, my daddy calls it,” Taylor said with assurance. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Certainly. Flies, bugs, grasshoppers, choice beetles, moths, butterflies, tasty cockroaches, gnats, midges, daddy longlegs, centipedes, mosquitoes, crickets—anything that is careless enough to get caught in my web. I have to live, don’t I?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Now I know she’s as much a fool as my daddy was and as Leroy is when he gets on the Old Crow, only she doesn’t chase me with the frying pan. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “This town left its imprint on your daddy, probably more than even he knows. And sometimes it’s the marks that go the deepest that hurt the most.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Nobody had ever told me that he was right there watching our daddy slip into that frozen pond. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z It was one of those things Ophie had started to notice a lot more since her daddy’s passing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Did you ever visit your daddy in jail?” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Me and Jay were old enough to share stories of the man we remembered our daddy to be when the pastor asked. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “And there’s no one else to stop me. My daddy left me. Seems like everyone’s always leaving.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry, Clem. That why you want to go into the Navy? To be like your daddy?” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z He knows that’s the one thing I can’t stand after nursing my drunk daddy for ten years, me and Mama working ourselves to death so he had a full bottle. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “This is all I could find, and my daddy is going to wonder why I got so hungry, but I’ll just tell him I been out all day hunting. Eat,” he urged them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re sitting on her bed, the frame her daddy built a golden brown so we might as well be sitting on a throne together. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “He worked hard, but he could never make enough to pay off his debt. My daddy was a good man but not real careful with what little money he got. He drank too much sometimes. . . .” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z One night I had to go take Grandpa a message from my daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “That’s the body your daddy’s been writing letters to Washington about. The coffin never got dug up and shipped back to the States because I paid off a police captain to make sure it wouldn’t.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “I tried to teach your daddy how to do this when he was a kid,” she goes on, “but he wanted no part of it. Never been the outdoorsy type.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z And if he was somebody like Son Black, he might just push my daddy and Uncle Camp clean out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When Johnny and their daddy came on the mule, Jimmy was still on the bank pulling and Aden and me were still in the water pushing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "No. I know I'm something. I'm just saying that not having a mama and a daddy don't feel like nothing. It's just the way things are." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Serafina picked up the little boy who’d fallen in the river, and who was crying out for his daddy, reaching back over Serafina’s shoulder to the silent figure still standing in the water, indifferent. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m leaving now. You tell your daddy I’m going into town tomorrow instead of coming here.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Nan, she was a born loner but always blessed with a plus-one, first my daddy and now me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The only two folks around here old enough for you to be calling them sir are Mr. Jimmy and”—he winked—“your long-lost dear old daddy.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “Your daddy don’t see it that way,” said Papa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z One day, when Chill was hanging out in our front room, he took my tape recorder and talked into the mike: Chill: This is Lloyd’s daddy talking. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “But telling them your name will? News flash. If we die, you’re going to die too. It doesn’t matter who your daddy is.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z This is going to be a tough day for your daddy because he’s gonna have to drive for more than six hours. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z My daddy listened to the blues back in Alabama on an old scratchy record. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Grandpa was just fourteen when he joined the Army of the South with his daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He was our coal-black daddy of whom we were afraid. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a milliner in Athens who trained with Love in Baltimore and she says Love’s daddy fought on the Union side in the War. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Like everybody else, Aunt Loma was relieved that her daddy was better. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “You said you’re not going to see your daddy. Where are you going?” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Them beans better be hot when your daddy wakes up!” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Now what do you think you doin’? I bet your daddy has told you a million times to stay out of his office. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Strong boy,” “Handsome just like his daddy,” folks been saying since the day I was born, but I never took a liking to the work Daddy did in the fields. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “If Big Joe is supposed to be her daddy someday, maybe it is her business,” I said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe my daddy had shown her a picture of Lily and me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “I talked to your mama,” she said, sprinkling flour on the board, “and she talked to your daddy. I done my part. If you can think of something else, you go right ahead.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but your daddy got out,” Stella ventured. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Around midnight when Grampa finally realized I wasn’t going to change my mind, he swore softly and said, “You’re getting to be more like your daddy every day.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Here and there, adults herded the children along, and I heard one say, “Don’t worry, you’ll see your mummies and daddies again soon!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She makes up her mind and as you pass by informs your back that she is daddy’s little angel child. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sailing around in your daddy’s yacht doesn’t mean you’re well traveled.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Grandpop released her and asked, “You know your daddy’s a fool, right?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He was so doggone mean and hard to get along with it just didn’t seem like it was true that he could be anyone’s daddy. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “All this time we’ve been using your first name as your surname and you never enlightened us. I guess because then we would’ve known who your daddy is?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Who shot your daddy? Did you say somebody shot him?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t, so he played a song about a miner’s child who dreamed her daddy would die if he went to the mines that day, but he went anyway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z When Mama was still pregnant with me, our daddy was sitting in Central Park reading the paper. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z As Stella gaped at him, she sensed her mother sitting up a little taller, her daddy, too. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z One time I asked Papa didn’t he think his daddy was lazy, leaving all the work to field hands or sorry no-count tenants and croppers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Ben, sugah. Go wake the children and have them gather in my room. I want to tell them about their daddy.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama said that was because she was used to taking care of herself after Daddy’s daddy died. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “Please, God, please don’t kill my daddy. Please, God, please don’t kill my daddy. Please, God, please don’t kill my daddy.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I reminded Lily that our daddy was coming over to talk about money. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Hundreds of daddy longlegs spiders live in the utility boxes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He say he want to fight but got to stay home and run his daddy’s cotton gin. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m your daddy. Do you love your daddy?” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “I got a nice rod and reel down home, but my daddy don’t want me using it without him around. ’ Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Daddy had been their daddy all along, only he hadn’t been there so they hadn’t known. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Only one I recognize is Lincoln. He look like my daddy.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Yes, daddy,” the boy said, crouching over his pad and carefully writing. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s go find your daddy and mama,” Stella told her soothingly. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Was all I could do to keep your daddy out of’em.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “What’s it like when you visit your daddy in jail?” he said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I guess I’d been thinking too long ’cause he said, “You run all the way from Grand Rapids to Owosso? Was it ’cause your daddy use to beat you?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Bet their mamas and daddies’ words tumble out slow and lazy just like mine. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “Do your mummy and daddy know you are out?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z In it, Lillian wrote, “I heard daddy died in a fire,” and she asked if it was true. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z "I don't see how sawdust can help you to sell second-hand cars, daddy." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Then she went to singing a Nigerian grief song learned from her daddy, who was lured onto an illegal slave ship in 1848, when he was only twelve. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes, we surely do. I have a daddy and a little brother who love her very much. She’s my mother, sir.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “But,” I continued, answering their next question before they could ask it, “I got a daddy.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Her mama gets out of bed every morning and her daddy is not called Scrappy. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z People telling him that he couldn’t understand what it was really like to be black because his daddy was white. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “I don’t know,” her daddy had said, and he looked so sad. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z May always said that once she got with Ob, her mommy and daddy could rest easy, and they finally flew off to that big church picnic in the sky. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. 03-01 said to me, “Prove that it is so. Through the exercise of logic. Is the daddy longlegs a spider?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Most of us had seen souvenir postcards in our daddies’ and granddaddies’ things. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Cause my daddy was white. I got the tall from my mama.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “I’m... I’m going to see Doctor Neal for some tests. It’s just routine, but I don’t want your daddy to know. You know how upset he gets every time somebody goes to the doctor.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She put her hand on my shoulder and said, “I’m sorry, sweetheart. How ’bout your daddy? Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z "Ain't nobody trying to be Bolt. I'mma be better than Bolt. Plus, at least I got on running clothes. You out here in your daddy's gear pretending to be something you not." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Tell me about the night your daddy died. And I do mean everything.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z And I never heard any Tweedy, not even my own daddy, try to correct the impression. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z My daddy is a general, and I know what he’d say if he were here: We need to do a recon mission, see if there are any more survivors, and tend to the wounded.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I knew for sure her daddy wasn’t away somewhere getting corrected. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Blue eyes blazing, hands on hips, she watched her daddy go down the walk and cross the railroad tracks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Something my daddy reminds me of every time he sees “DYSA.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z “What does your daddy do anyway, Sammy? Does he make a living off that store?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Smoothing out the yellowed newspaper for the thousandth time, I scanned the page, hoping to find some bit of news about or insight into my daddy. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I start to think more about my own daddy, where might he be. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She and my pretend daddy laughed and he said, “It took you long enough to catch on, Clarence.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z I don’t care that you sometimes cry because you miss your daddy, who you don’t even remember. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine my daddy running out into that pond, but I couldn't. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Tonight, when she said, ‘Yes, I am my daddy’s daughter,’ and gave that little smirk . Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing the question mark on Papa’s face, Grandpa reached down and shook my daddy’s hand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Let’s see,” Gramps said, “didn’t Peeby want you to tell your daddy about Mrs. Cadaver and Mr. Birkway hacking up her husband?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “And your daddy is a pirate. So, what does this mean? What might the x stand for?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She knew why those men in Georgia had killed her daddy, even if everyone pretended she was still a baby and couldn’t understand. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Who’s the boy that done this to you?” her daddy shouted. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You re not going to remember your daddy, and it hurts me to think about that. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “My mama cuts all our hair. My daddy and my grandpap and me. She cuts it all the same.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z "Downstairs to tell daddy about the smoke coming from the Westing house." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Listen, your daddy was a real masterpiece at one time. I joked in there that I couldn’t remember him,” she says, pointing back at the house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Well, you’re just talking now. You don’t really know what your daddy thinks, but I do.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “He didn’t tell me to meet him here, sir. I come all the way from Flint to meet my daddy for the very first time.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z It would of made a lot more sense for Loma to go live with her daddy and Miss Love. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z My daddy sucked in his breath as I told them about the letter opener and forgetting the last two sticks and David coming to pick me up. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And she just kept imagining what would have happened that night back in Georgia if she hadn’t seen her daddy, if she hadn’t heeded his warning. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In a kitchen chair sat Mrs. Weidenbach’s old daddy in full Civil War blue and his decoration from the Grand Army of the Republic. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “My grandma was white and my grandpa black. My mama has pretty light skin. My daddy was white and Mexican and he had green eyes.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She used to talk about her mommy and daddy watching over her after they died in the flash flood. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Queenie always sang her daddy’s African words, but you knew by the wailing and moaning that they meant death. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z His mother promised to take him to Brooklyn to meet his daddy, but when she left home again five years later, Reggie remained in Lambert. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Last month,” Nathan continued, “a Spanish priest from this place called Fort Mose came through here, trying to teach my daddy the ‘one true faith.’ Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z To wish and hope that maybe he’d grown up and become my daddy. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Don’t you worry about your daddy. You go on and audition, and I’ll deal with him later.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z "It shows off your long neck and strong shoulders—got both of those from your daddy, didn't you, honey?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I know your daddy gave you your great-grandad’s catching mitt,” she says. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Shelly said, “I’ve known Paine since back when he and Dusty used to fish charters out of Ted’s. He was always a gentleman—your daddy, 1 mean, not Dusty.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Today is the anniversary of my daddy’s death. He didn’t even see me graduate from college.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I don’t know how she could say such as that when her daddy had given her husband a job and provided them a house to live in. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Your daddy is too busy scrubbing toilets with his brush.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I had held the boy and told him he still had his daddy—please God. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Don’t get a chance to ask Clem about his daddy in the Navy because he keeps on. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “Monique is my mother, but Jordan is not my daddy. He's Monique's husband, and he says he’s Angel’s daddy, but he's no father of mine!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve had a long talk with your daddy and I have made a decision.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I nursed a worthless pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I’d never marry one. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Bet his daddy was a gray fox and his ma was a red one. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z "Sho, daddy. Is there any other little favors I can do for you?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z What if my daddy had one of those kinds of children? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “And what about you? Do you have to even though he’s not your daddy?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “You want me to swab out toilets while you run your old daddy for Oldest Settler and your nephew for public speaker. Or did my ears deceive me?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, sir, there’s a shadow of bad luck all over you. First your daddy leaves; then your mama dies. Now poor, stupid Junior.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Kindra carries a plate of beans and ham to her daddy and comes back to the stove for more. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Never once have I told my daddy what to do. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “That big explosion on the Navy ship in California? Port Chicago disaster, they called it. My daddy was on that. Been three years now....” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “Is that what our daddy looked like or not?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t really–” she starts to say but we hear a door close and a singsong daddy, daddy, daddy floating down the hall toward us. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Still and all, he got better terms at the store than most, on account of my daddy, and Papa helped out some with cash money. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I knew Mama had come mostly to be with her daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “You think Martin Luther King is our daddy? That he secretly run around calling himself Danny Turner, out here in South Carolina? You crazy.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Our daddy hadn't arrived yet and she was shaking her leg nervously. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z My daddy kissed Miss Love on the cheek and then shook hands with Grandpa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z My daddy jumped up out of his chair, came around the table with his arms outstretched, grabbed Mama out of her chair, and kissed her hard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “He was a great man. I’ve got allergies, that’s all. Look at my daddy. Look at yours too. They worked in the mine all their life, and they never had any problems with their lungs.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When Ophie was little she would sit on Mama’s lap and watch, and when she got old enough to play she would take turns playing either her mama or daddy. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Eventually I discovered that my maternal grandfather had a white daddy. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “That doesn’t fix a thing. What about this boy? I saw his daddy, and he was white and mad. White daddies don’t like their daughters running off with black boys.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z After my daddy died, Mama made it seem like it was just the two of us against the world. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “There’s someone your daddy and I want you to meet.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z “Uncle Edisto was the closest thing Peach ever had to a daddy,” Mama said. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “You lay a hand on me, and I’ll tell my daddy!” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Bitter Creek and Blue Falls. I think he was too young to remember that. Maybe his daddy.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My daddy—who I called T. Ray because “Daddy” never fit him— had pulled her out of the peach orchard, where she’d worked as one of his pickers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Since then, she had to be a mama and a daddy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Tobias and his daddy always talk bout money like they still got a lot Old Mr. been selling off the place so that nothing much left but the houses and the fields. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she said, “Well, Mary Willis, I reckon now your daddy will ship her back to Baltimore. Pore man, look what bein’ lonesome got him into.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Then it was time to take a look at Sojourner's daddy. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “How come nobody seems to know much about my daddy?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z But maybe she’ll grow out of it It took her daddy forty years to learn to be pleasant. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had sense enough to know my daddy really needed me to be home working the garden. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I reach for my backpack and pull out my daddy’s gold notebook, which I’ve been reading, like, every day since I found it when we still lived in our apartment. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z And here was the pastor telling Ophie she could add her own daddy to that list. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Since neighbors were already gathering, he drove the horses around to the back door, where my daddy was waiting. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z My daddy is not home much, but when he does come home everything is one wonderful bamboche: fine nights full of guitar and radio, the smell of fry food, the fire swallow of clairin. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Daddy daddy daddy I hear in Jacob’s Noise. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “But, Stella, what can they do? They got no power. No money. Like my daddy says, it’s hard to live like there’s a boot on your back every second of your life.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z At one point in her dream her daddy had appeared, only he was possessing Richard Caruthers, giving Ophie a dollar so that she could go see a movie and get an ice cream cone. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It said, “Billy, my man, go ahead and bet this little no-momma fool that he don’t know who his daddy is, then I’d have another nickel to bang around in your pocket with.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “But my daddy is alive,” I said, figuring she’d just given herself away as a fake. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry too. Yes, indeed. You don’t get to decide the rules. Your daddy and I do.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “My daddy says being on the road ain’t fit for a dog, much less a kid, how come you don’t just go back to your orphanage?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “I said I wanted to know about my daddy. That was just some old story from twenty years ago about two people I don’t even know.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “I mean her last name. Her daddy’s name.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He weren’t no richer than nobody else, but your daddy was always wantin’ to help.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Your mama and daddy called. They made it back home safely. And it’s a good thing they left early, missed this here storm,” Grandma said when Genie and Ernie came into the kitchen. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “I was fishing with my daddy, and I wandered off and...” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He lit on Mrs. Weidenbach’s daddy, and they both rolled in the street, locked in combat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Because it’s been that way since me and your grandma been married. Pots been in the same place since your daddy was a little boy,” Grandpop explained. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “She could do math in her head, multiplying and dividing numbers that would take most people five minutes to figure out with pencil and paper. She got that from her daddy.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Y’all got some nerve. Your daddy was barely out the driveway, and y’all slobbering all over each other. You know how Maverick is.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z If it didn’t suit her for her daddy to marry again, why, he just wasn’t going to. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mama said, “This is going to be a long day, Comfort. Aunt Florentine was like a mama to your daddy—she practically raised him and your aunt Goldie all by herself. Last night was difficult...” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She tell me private if I see my daddy to tell him he a sweet man always. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Gramps had helped his daddy build this house back when folks kept hogs in their backyards. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes and thought of my poor young mama and May’s poor mommy and daddy and my dear May herself. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z “My daddy. I’m not gonna say one word the whole entire time.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He say he want to fight but got to stay home and nm his daddy*s cotton gin. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You reckon your daddy would like to go?” he asked. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell your daddy and the rest of those boys they were told to expect trouble,” he spat out. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Let me see. I’m sure your daddy did most things boys do. Swim, fish, cause havoc.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “You’re making a bad mistake if you think your daddy’s dedicated to keeping the Negroes in their places.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z And you are going to be very important to this baby, because you’re not the mommy or the daddy. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s different. Do you think Dupree Johnson’s daddy loved his gas station more than his family? Or Robbie Chambers’ daddy loved his doughnut shop more than his wife or kids?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Why couldn’t my daddy ask him to keep them down at the store? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And I knew your daddy all his life, we grew up together, we were childhood friends. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t tell my daddy. He thinks I play with some boys after school.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Five minutes later he came out with my daddy for a ride in the Cadillac. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I cried and my daddy wrapped his arms around me and held me to his chest. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He announced, “Our daddy and Tio Carlos are going to keep trying. Luis says that the rest of us have to go inside. Right now. He’ll call me when we can come back out.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your daddy didn’t get the life beat out of him for you to go waltzing around the city, inviting them to do the same to you.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z All of us went, but first Grandpa Tweedy and my daddy had to decide if it was all right to ride that train. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He was a good boy, but he liked to gamble and drink and run his mouth—just like his daddy. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “If my daddy builds us another house, will the bad men burn that one too?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z ‘He’s her daddy, tell him to take care of her!’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Next, I picked up my daddy’s letter opener and ran my finger across its sharp tip. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “You ain’t know your daddy had it in him, did you?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “I ain’t no good to him. His daddy would have got rid of me.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sure it couldn’t have anything to do with who Jake’s daddy is, now, could it?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “It reminded me of the time when my daddy died. You know we’re very close.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z What she didn’t say was that Momma dumped me after my daddy died because it was easier—easier to fall to pieces without me to worry about. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Hey, if I find out you didn’t spend this money on something fun, I’ma cut your hair bald like your daddy!” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “Hell, Dana, we have to trust each other. You said that yourself. But what if my daddy went through that bag of yours. He could if he wanted to. You couldn’t stop him.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Tell your daddy to get to my house right away,” Stella whispered urgently. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Ophie realized that telling her mother the truth about her daddy’s last visit scared her more than all the dead in Pittsburgh. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Aunt Loma said as much to her daddy one time, but he just laughed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z "Your daddy used to say this thing was so good they'd make you slap your mama," Ma would say, nibbling the top of the cupcake. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “Where did you get those kids? You’re not old enough to be their daddy.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “One time my daddy saw his ancestor who’d been dead a hundred years,” I said, stubborn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z For the first time in a while, Ophie let herself linger in the memory of the night her daddy died. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “She probably gets that from her daddy’s side.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z My daddy's name was Lafayette too, and I wonder if there's a little white kid somewhere named after him. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z “Bad. Don’t nothing change in the good old U.S. of A. Bet his daddy got his balls busted off in the Pacific somewhere.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “But unlike my daddy, I’m gonna make things right before it’s too late.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Feared one of them would up and die, unexpected, like her mommy and daddy in the flash flood, if she let them out of her sight for too long. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z But that hooch is mine, not my daddy’s,” Crab clarified, prickly. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Are you and your daddy having a go at me?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I thought of little Shelby, sitting on a bus on her way to see her daddy. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Ever since the night she saw her daddy back in Georgia, Ophie had seen ghosts everywhere. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “I know your mama’s name, son. I’ve known her a long time, although she and your daddy like to forget that.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Our daddies paid for the onions and we all worked out the money, but Mr. Tuttle never forgave us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Muff was their neighbor, and while they ate the fried chicken and mounds of potato salad and fluffy white biscuits, she talked about people that she knew, people his daddy knew, too. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then Grandpop said, “I’m joking. 646-555-8349. I can tell you your daddy’s cell, your mama’s cell, and their work numbers too, if you like, boss. And your address.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I was proud he wasn’t lazy like his own daddy, who spent the summer days on his porch swatting flies and even had him a pet hen to peck up the dead ones. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z You’re like a father—you act like somebody’s daddy: “Turn off the TV!” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The pastor trailed off, and from the expression on his face, Ophie didn’t want to know what those men had done to her daddy. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Your daddy and I have moved to New York!” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Things happened fast after R.C. licked their daddy. Naomi was pretty upset and didn’t have time to do much letter-writing.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The Thug guy said, “I’ma let you in on a little secret, my man. I think the only reason Mr. C. is denying he’s your daddy is ’cause you went and hurt his feelings.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “My daddy bought me that pink teddy bear but I never liked it. I used to beat it up.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Kenny, this isn’t a welfare list, it just means your daddy’s gonna pay all at once instead of a few times every week.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “OK, get back on in there and tell your daddy I said hello.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z I would read it after my daddy opened it himself—now that I knew where it was. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Nan raised your daddy, and I hate to admit it, but she'll do a better job than I ever could. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z And then the ironic voice spoke again, saying: “Get up, John. Get up, boy. Don’t let him keep you here. You got everything your daddy got.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “I didn’t! I swear! Well, not really. But—I was just so upset! I figured if my daddy...” she dropped her head and sniffled. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I didn’t add that the idea of a forever without my daddy seemed to me like music without sound. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “I’m in business with my daddy,” he explained. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “So after the fall crop come in, my daddy he sold his plowin’ steer and his piece a-land, and we caught the train to Cold Sassy.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But that don’t sound right, so I try Miss Cook, my daddy got mad when I wasn’t doing my schoolwork and ripped up this book. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Or better yet, maybe he was just a selfish poseur, using his daddy as an excuse to be wack. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Then she went to school to pick up her oldest daughter, Stephanie, a real daddy’s girl. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “You want to know something else about your Jake Mosby? His daddy owns about twenty percent of the steel mill that owns us. He’s got more money than Carter’s got little liver pills.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “You listen to your daddy, Ben. Just do what he says, and you won’t get into trouble. All of you children do that. You hear Mamaw.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our Augustus, my daddy’s daddy, was not a free man, but became one: a freedman. He wasn’t a man at all. Just more than a boy. Like this’n.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He nodded and said, “I don’t want a doll baby. I want a woman. A grown-up woman that’s not scared of her daddy. I guess you don’t want to be a grown-up woman, Corrie.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because your daddy and I swore that you and Trey would never step foot in that school,” she says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Somewhere between last summer and now, our daddy cemented the swing set down. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Pinkie spotted them before they disappeared in the fog and shouted, “Don’t you worry, Ben. We’ll find your daddy. Philip and Art are up by Goat Island looking. Even Mr. Loring’s in a boat looking.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We can't help but laugh each time our daddy tells us the names of his brothers and sisters. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z She said her daddy would be cleaning God out of his potato salad. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z “My daddy was a King Lord. Adonis Carter. A straight up OG.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z One time when I was in third grade, I went with Scrappy to the cemetery to see where his daddy was buried. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Back before her daddy made his money, Miranda and Chigger were playmates. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, I don’t know. My Rudy minds his daddy. He just wild with me. Be glad when he growed and gone.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The truth is, your daddy was better than me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Bring some glasses and get that whiskey out the cupboard. This here’s Macon Dead’s boy and he’s tired and needs a drink. Tell me, how’d you find me? Don’t tell me your daddy remembered me?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Their daddies were executives, or ambassadors, or celebrities. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z As the minutes ticked off, little girls clasped their daddies’ necks, lovers hugged as though the embrace had to last through all eternity, and an old woman got teary-eyed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “She found it. She was looking for Dismay with her daddy, and she found the collar near…” Mama’s voice faltered just a little, then she gathered it together again. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She lied and told her momma and daddy she was hanging with some other friends today. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I imagined her singing with her big sister, Bertha, in the backseat of their daddy’s car. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I myself used to wonder why Loma didn’t find some more actors to run off with—a thing she wanted to do—instead of marrying Campbell Williams just to spite her daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Do you know you frightened your mamma and daddy almost to death? Why did you run away?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z But didn’t your daddy have a sister name of Pilate?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I seem to remember my daddy telling me about . The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nan had given me one of my daddy’s shirts, but I couldn’t bear to cut it up. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z There would be no one to stop our daddies in Egypt Town. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z "I imagine, daddy," Matilda said quietly, "that you weren't looking very hard and you simply took mummy's bottle of hair stuff off the shelf instead of your own." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Kids,” Dad said, “I almost wasn’t your father. You guys came real close to having a clown for a daddy named Hambone Henderson. . . .” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, she loved it. She was a great player. Her daddy wanted her to be the next Althea Gibson. Of course, back then we didn’t have a girls’ tennis team. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Mary Willis, you got you a young daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t find out what happened to him till long after the fact, when your daddy died in 195 7. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben leaned over to Pinkie and asked, “Where’s your daddy, Pinkie? I haven’t seen him at any of the games. Is he here tonight?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He believe in spirit, my daddy, but he be above worry. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Let Jay tell it, I’m stubborn like my daddy, smart-mouthed like my daddy, and hotheaded like my daddy. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “A mill girl came in the store today to buy some black goods for a dress. Said her daddy died. She ast if I knew you.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Paine Lee Underwood, my own son, your own daddy!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “You don’t want to see your daddy like this.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It was still a farmhouse in 1890, when her daddy died and her stepmother went to live with a grown son, Mr. French Gordy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I was only in the thinking stage for this one, but it was going to be about my daddy’s secret sister. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z And daddies didn’t lie to their little girls. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She said that while that sounded good, and the people hollered and clapped for him, he was still a rich, young Catholic boy whose daddy made millions selling liquor. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “Bailey Junior sound just like Big Bailey. Got a silver tongue. Just like his daddy.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m suddenly so proud of my daddy, for many reasons. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He figured Tess was probably telling the truth, but it was the truth her daddy had told her, and Genie didn’t trust Crab to tell truths. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Why, your aunt, honey. Your daddy’s sister. That pretty Jean Lickfold that won the ladies’ golf tournament out at the club last year.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “One day, I’m gonna join the Navy and travel the world, just like my daddy.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Shucks, who’d want a daddy that on top of being so old and so doggone mean had such a big belly? Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z These girls ain't look like they had to text their daddies to tell them they made it there safe. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “And I was doing that. I missed first days of school, all that. Had my baby wanting to call somebody else daddy ’cause I wasn’t there.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z He added, “Our daddy’s driving to the takeout for some Egg McMuffins. You down with that?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t miss having a daddy because first off there was Mr. Frank. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dear daddy wish you were here. No good parties when daddys out of town I miss my sweet daddy.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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