No one’s smart when it comes to family. Blood is thicker than smart.

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they’re normal to you because you’ve been dealing with them all your life.

You know what I mean. I’m telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn’t have the time to be a good parent. Obviously,...

Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.

The row was actually about everything in creation, but it had for its subject of the moment the boy’s mustache.

The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a dog, a bird, a plant that always leans to the left....

Van was feeding Christian as we walked in the door. I shielded my hands in front of my face to prevent from seeing her bare breast. “God damn woman, put that tit away!””I’m feeding my...

A word is a small song.

I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war but could not, because the work he did was considered essential to the...

If your parents died suddenly, Sandro understood, your home was wherever you were, and now you were from nowhere. Your parents were your provenance. Dead, you had no provenance.

Because that’s what families do for each other. They support each other, whether they agree with the other person’s decisions or not. It’s called love.” ~Faith Barnett from Texas Tangle

Eighteen and stupid happens to everyone, I guess. If you survive it, it’s probably half luck, and half having the right people in your life to watch out for you.

I’ll love you forever,I’ll like you for always, As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.

He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel’s heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just...

At least wait until you’re alone before you kiss her, if you please! Remember, her family is watching you, and we haven’t had our dinner yet!

Fib!” Dr. Pedras feels for a pulse while another places gelled pads on her chest.

As we embrace the mystery of love, we see that it contains not an absence of error, but the presence of grace. It contains not the absence of anger or pain, but the presence of...

The need for civility in society has never been more important. The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our homes. It is not surprising that our public discourse has declined in equal measure with...

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Truth means facing denial and saying I know who I am, I know who I need to be and I’m not afraid to become that person no matter what…Never be without fear; but Letti, never...

my motheris pure radiance. she is the suni can touchand kissand holdwithout getting burnt.

My mother hasn’t asked the questions that a normal person would ask, and I’m grateful for it. It’s like the world has become so crazy that it makes sense to her now. I turn on...

It’s not blood that makes us who we are,” Dad said. “It’s family. And it’s not blood that makes us family. It’s love.

I need them and they need me to need them

When you choose to forgive the same people over and over again you do so because you don’t want to believe your time loving them was wasted. Bad relationships over time can become investments, that...

For me, family means the silent treatment. At any given moment, someone is always not speaking to someone else.’Really,’ I said.We’re passive-aggressive people,’ she explained, taking a sip of her coffee. ‘Silence is our weapon...

You can’t fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn’t work run like hell, while they...

We have the ability to rise up and take control of our lives, if only we stop to pay attention to the warning signs that we so often find ourselves excusing and ignoring.

I am releasing my own demons of times gone by and seizing the opportunity to find my own corner, my own fortress, my own calm and peace. Life is not unfair.

Passion + Vision +Skill + Mentoring = Success.

You have to design your own price tag for the world.

The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father’s home.

I guess just because you’re family doesn’t mean you have to be friends.

He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved...

Jeff Hudson started me on a path that was key, and as life goes on it’s become a mantra to me. It’s that you’re born into a family, your family of origin, and you’re stuck...

I was the problem and the solution.

An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.

Supreme level of maturity is needed to realize; that, conveyance of family life, depends on equally maintained pair of wheels and both crediting each other, for their functioning and struggles as well.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

Part of me shall dwell in my daughter to call upon in times of need of course.

Smile at the Fates and you will feel less their Slave.

You’re the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

Personligt kan jeg kun forestille mig én ting, der er endnu værre (end at have venner): familien. Gudskelov befinder jeg mig i den gunstige situation, at jeg ingen familie har.

Just because someone says it is so doesn’t mean it is.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.