Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don’t care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just… survive. Outlive me, please.

I hated this love that I had for my family—love that demanded my time and energy, that sought to control my life down to every thought and action.I now realize that it was not love but an unhealthy attachment, born out of a need for security and a sense of duty.

I love you enough to never make you choose.

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can’t see it.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

From the standpoint of integrity, I think we all need to own up to our dirty little secrets. I believe that when we are open about our own strange desires or unusual lives, it paves the way for others to do the same. In the past thirty years, gay men and lesbians took a lot...

You really are like him, your father.””I can’t tell whether you think that’s good or bad.””What does it matter? It’s simply true.

Can’t release her? The air caught in my chest, hardened, and refused to move. There was a good chance I wasn’t making it out of this basement. The craziest thing I had ever done was ride some insane roller coaster at Cedar Point–and now that seemed like no big deal. I’d never been out of...

Blood is thicker than water,” because at times blood was the only bond they shared and she had to remind herself they were family, because at times it was unbelievable they were even related. She loved them, but she hadn’t chosen them.

We are earthbound creatures, Maggie had thought. No matter how tempting the sky. No matter how beautiful the stars. No matter how deep the dream of flight. We are creatures of the earth. Born with legs, not wings, legs that root us to the earth, and hands that allow us to build our homes, hands...

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

You are the machos, the life, the future of our families. You are all that’s left, so you must protect our mothers and grow and do good and have families of your own. I love you. I do. I do.

And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can’t choose their direction.

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they’re away? To come home and keep you safe?

Without love, life was nothing but endless tasks and battles.

Tidak ada perasaan yang bertahan selamanya. Aku belajar itu dari Papa. Cepat atau lambat, sesuatu yang kita miliki akan hilang dan yang tertinggal kemudian cuma rasa benci.

Because blood is blood, and every family has its own force.Its own flavor.Its own charm and strange.

When I wake up on Sunday Mornings – late, you always let me sleep in – I come looking for you, and you’re in the backyard with dirt on your knees and two little girls spinning around you in perfect orbit. And you put their hair in pigtails and you let them wear whatever madness...

Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.

Families, can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em ..

Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

And in that moment, Grace understood something that she would never forget: Home wasn’t just a building or an apartment with a roof and beds and chairs inside. Home was with her family, wherever they were.

In the school of success, information is the greatest asset. The more you read, the more you discover, the more you discover, the more you recover and the better your life become.

Attitude determines Altitude.Winners never quit.No venture, No gain.

My own family were far from perfect, yet I thanked the Lord that I had them, even if they did sometimes make me want to kill them all.

What’s she crying for now?” Theo wanted to know as Pilar clung to his father and sobbed.”Women wait until it’s over before they cry, especially when it’s important.” Maddy studied theway her father turned his face into Pilar’s hair. “This is important

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost overwhelmed with the amount of attention and love I receive from Mami’s family. In New York, I’m invisible.

Englishmen who came here had the spirit of close kinsmen in all they did; often were blood related and moved from place to place in clans strengthened by civic and ecclesiastical covenants.

Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that you’re not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as...

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

I’ve devoted my life to see equality for blacks, and at the same time, I’ve denied the needs of my family. Please understand that I take these actions, not out of selfishness or arrogance, but to preserve a South Africa worth living in for blacks and whites.

In the end it is all about loving your family. For one the family can be as small as single person or as big as whole world.

We men have always fought to protect others… since the ancient times. Even though we were naked, and only had sticks and stones to defend ourselves… we still had the elderly, the young, our wives, friends, family, and homes… and to protect all of that we braved any danger, no matter what… and fought! And...

In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.

No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother.

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.

Jerome said, It’s like, a family doesn’t work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

All this family shit! Harry said. How can you reinvent your life if the original versions won’t leave you alone?

No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel infuriated that once you are born to another, that kinship lasts through life and death, immutable, unchanging, no matter how...

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

You and your siblings are the most precious part of my life. And of all my children, you have the most potential to go anywhere you wish in this world – your test scores and grades have always been among the highest of your peers. But it’s clear now that you cannot reach your full...

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

I’ll be your family now,” he says. “I love you,” I say. (….)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. “Say it again.””Tobias,” I say, “I love you.

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

If you truly loved someone you won’t become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.