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  • The reward is in the risk. You can’t stay hidden inside Grandpa’s overprotective cloak forever. You’ve seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it’s up to you to

    Notebook   Mom   Dad  
    Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.212, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.

    Kathy Reichs (2014). “Monday Mourning: A Novel”, p.62, Simon and Schuster
  • This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

    Hurt   Parent   Tragedy  
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.24, Random House
  • Once you lose somebody so close to you, you become very overprotective.

  • He was trying to be everywhere at once," the redhead told the human. "Trying to make sure Alice had nothing to do, actually." He shook his head as he looked at the tiny blackhaired girl. "Alice doesn‘t need anyone‘s help." The vampire named Alice shot a glare at Jasper. "Overprotective fool," she said in her clear soprano voice. Jasper met her stare with a half smile, seeming to forget for a second that I existed.

    Girl   Voice   Vampire  
  • I shuddered at the image in my head, at the word feed. But Jasper wasn’t worried about frightening me, not overprotective like Edward always was.

    Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company
  • There's a word like overprotective to describe some parents, but no word that means the opposite. What word do you use to describe parents who don't protect enough? Underprotective? Neglectful? Self-involved? Lame? All of the above.

    Mean   Self   Opposites  
    R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.202, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

    John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.19, Random House
  • Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is "red alert." I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

    Kids   Breathing   Wife  
    "Matt Damon Reveals His Insecurities". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 17, 2011.
  • I do have to say my daughter, Sunday, said to me [I was being] overprotective, so you must have been a fly on the wall.

    Daughter   Wall   Sunday  
    Source: www.washingtontimes.com
  • To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

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