Certain people will be upset when you speak the truth. They might get mad. They might get really mad. That’s because they are still living the lie you’ve exposed. Stay strong. Speak truth. Do not...

I don’t really know them, but I know this: they’re just like your kids were. Or are. Sweet, trusting, good in ways we adults hardly even remember. We have to look out for them. Not...

This past year I grew up to know hunger, grief, darkness, fear. I began to understand how lonely you can feel even when all you want is to be alone.

Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves....

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don’t always agree about things we can still love and look out for each...

Under her thick pancake makeup, her skin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy...

When you judge other people without wanting to know the true story behind their actions, is usually when there is something inside of you that is so broken that if you found out what you...

Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.

When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don’t we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or...

But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near camp are dark and in the woods and we had to drive for...

I come from a long line of miserable people.

Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES

Often, to keep the family together, the woman will accept repeated beatings and rapes, emotional battering and verbal degredation; she will be debased and ashamed but she will stick it out, or when she runs...

It would never occur to them to say at home (as pastors’ kids) anything they were really thinking, unless it is forced out of them by anger.

He says that we must protect our families no matter what. No matter what we got to do to protect them.

Ammu watched over them fiercely. Her watchfulness stretched her, made her taut and tense. She was quick to reprimand her children, but even quicker to take offense on their behalf.

Family’ is not just a biological word, it’s an an operative one.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

HOLD all your property and wealth in trust for the Lord who gave them to you; even your family you must treat as a sacred trust, as persons given to you by the Lord to...

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You’re my ideal reader, friend, partner. I’m your fan.

A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling.

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you...

The great thing about the Internet isn’t that you can reconnect with old friends or stay up to date with developing world events or send pictures of newborns immediately around the world. It is simply...

This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when...

Papa was right, after all. A ship’s crew was like a family, and together we had done what we never could have managed alone.

…I got to chase my dream for a while, see what it’s like, but this—” He stood and swept his arms wide. “This, and my family, is worth any price.

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...

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

There is no such thing as a normal family so don’t trip off it, just deal with it.

It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the high sounding words and you are no different from any other race. Family? Has Priam...

I went to visit my dad. He didn’t say a word to me. Or if he did, I couldn’t hear it through the grass, the dirt, and his coffin lid.

A man should not be made to answer for his family.

If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?

Family. Couldn’t live with them, couldn’t run a stake through them.

I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire...

Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and suicide; the disease has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Or Kitty could have lost her life...

Now she sat in their dining hall, a book in her lap but unread while she stared blankly across the room.Bercelak’s kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire...

He’s only two years younger, but that doesn’t mean I’m not old enough to be his father. I grew up fast. Ah, but that’s life, no?

Do not throw me out. Please.

All the Debbies in the world are too big to be little. Makes me wish I were just two inches taller, you know? I blame my dad—or the mailman. Not sure yet. I get the...

I have family all over. And when they’re all over, I leave the house and go anywhere else.

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

Instructions for Dad.I don’t want to go into a fridge at an undertaker’s. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I got lonely?...

And the pomegranates,/like memories, are bittersweet/as we huddle together,/remembering just how good/life used to be

I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family’s well-being, depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatment’s the easy part. Without honesty, without...

Anyone can be polite to a stranger. Anyone can remain charming when spending time with an acquaintance, but what about those with whom we have familiarity? We hurt, offend and piss off the ones we...

This was when it hit him! The thought of losing his entire family in one day suddenly made his heart ache in a way that he didn’t think could be possible.

My mom will descend upon me with a bottle ofperoxide the second I hit the door.

If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.