"I feel that if you live life in pursuit of 'certification,' 'appreciation’, or ‘compensation' in any form from your parents, you're making a big mistake. The sooner you can say, “Okay, they're them and I'm me, and let's make the best of it," the better off you're going to be.
We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.
I believe that, to a certain extent, kids get weird because their parents made them weird. Parents have more to do with making their children weird than TV or rock and roll records.
The only other thing that makes them weirder than TV and parents is religion and drugs.

How's your parents?"
She didn't manage to hide her smile. "Their weirdness is terminal.

I think my parents were bewildered by my oddity.

Your parents are weirdos, in the best possible way. They do not celebrate birthdays; never in your life have you received a present on the tenth of December. Instead, you are given books on the days that their authors were born.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

But her parents had underestimated the intricacies of her character. Specifically, she was free-spirited.

Here's the problem: A lot of parents are insane. You may be one of these parents without knowing it, because the craziness takes over you gradually.

...she led a dignified and modest life. But society, spiteful and querulous, always seeking sacrificial victims, never forgave her. Her parents themselves had fueled the scandal by punishing her so spectacularly, for fear people would say they weren't raising her right. (p107)

Children inherit their parents' madness.

The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.

“Some are born crazy,” Amelia said. “Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.”

The whims that we're weeping for Our parents would be beaten for.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.