I believe in fate and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life, so Mason could walk into yours.

Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. I didna mean to lose my own heart’s blood as well. For you are...

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It’s the only feeling we have which is infinite…

(ignorance + acceptance) * pride = arrogance

Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tenderness. Much more than...

Day blame ornery youngins.

A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy’Albert Einstein

If a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Even after Sonja graduated secondary school at the top of her class and matriculated to the city university biology department, their parents found more to love in Natasha. Sonja’s gifts were too complex to be...

You can’t experience the Father’s embrace until you first embrace your earthly father’s experience.

When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, of a family line, connection. All around him, men were walking silently with their thoughts, reforming their lives,...

If I didn’t have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

Everyone in this family belongs to everyone else – belongs with everyone else, rather. I’ve looked after him for a year now – ironed his shirts, made his school lunches, told him stories. I made...

It is wonderful to live together as brothers and sisters.

The child is right,” she announced firmly.Arrietty’s eyes grew big. “Oh, no-” she began. It shocked her to be right. Parents were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arrietty knew, and enjoy saying it-knowing...

And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you,...

But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud… I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she...

Know what being a man’s pet means. And if you’re ever lucky enough to find yourself with the choice, choose the pasture.

The first person I knew who died was Beth March. I cried for three days.

Families can also be divided into subgroups with different values, perspectives, and and communication styles, even if a subgroup consists of only one individual.

Aw honey. Today’s as important as forever.” Grandpa Joe in “Shave and a Haircut” Flash Warden and Other Stories

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as...

Righteous moves,Invigorating spirits,Sharing believes, andEmpowering, just onelet’s you RISE, above all.

It wasn’t every day that I got to see him, but when I did I knew I was on the right path and that life, while still shifting, was always improving for the better.

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family...

Letter writing can be seen as a gift because someone has taken his/her time to write and think and express love.

Sisters and brothers just happen, we don’t get to choose them, but they become one of our most cherish relationships.

Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children.

Take my hand Lena.” He offered and she knew he meant it in a way that went far beyond offering to help her stand.

Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

She would seize every opportunity to dive into the bathroom, in a swirl of white towels, and once in there she was as hard to dislodge as a limpet from a rock.

The power of giving, is greater than the joy of receiving

She knew her place in this family, always had. Knew why she was conceived. And it wasn’t for a photo on the mantle.

We forget sometimes that parents–even uncles–have lives of their own. Worlds of their own. Sides of themselves we never see and never dream are there. Even when someone describes those lives to us, we can’t...

Life was good. Everything was going right. It was almost scaring him because usually when things were going this well it was the calm before the storm hit.

When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything,...

Which meant it was time for the centerpiece of the celebration, the reason they were all gathered on Saturday, the weekly episode of what, as far as many of the Davidsons including Jody were concerned...

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which...

You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person...

That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to...

…it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.

Remember when you discovered your father owned a book called “How To Disappear and Never Be Found?” You’re sure it was just research for new and creative ways of thinking, for concepts that might apply...

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave.

Often, our misunderstandings about love are born in disruptive family relationships, where someone was either one-up or one-down to an extreme. There is an appropriate and necessary difference in the balance of power between parents...

My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.

And the reason he cannot bear her dying is not the loss of her (which is the future) but that dying puts the two of them (now) into this nakedness together that is unforgivable.

Family isn’t blood,” she said bitterly, continuing to back away. “Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.

Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond.