Fatherhood Quote by Lara St. John

Grief has a way of flattening language on purpose. "Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him" reads almost aggressively plain, the kind of sentence you reach for when anything more ornate would feel like performance. In a culture that expects public figures to turn private loss into a moving monologue, Lara St. John opts for the opposite: a deliberately generic tribute that protects the family’s interior life. The simplicity is the message.

The key word is "our". It’s a small act of boundary-setting, pulling the loss back into a shared family circle rather than letting it become a fan’s story or a headline’s property. "Great guy" is similarly unshowy; it refuses the grand, curated adjective (visionary, heroic) and chooses everyday goodness. That’s a subtly democratic move, insisting that what matters about a parent often isn’t mythic achievement but steady presence - the kind you can’t compress into a quote without betraying it.

"We will never forget him" functions less as a factual claim than as a pledge, a public marker that memory will be tended. It’s also a way to end the conversation: final, unarguable, and emotionally complete. Coming from a musician, someone whose work is built on expressiveness, the restraint lands harder. The subtext is clear: there is more to say, but it isn’t for you.